Did Netflix just throw a grenade into the Emmy race for the second year in a row?

TVLine has learned exclusively that Dept. Q , the Matthew Goode -fronted Scottish thriller that dropped May 29, just two days shy of the eligibility cutoff for this year’s Emmys , is being submitted in the Drama Series categories. The acclaimed nine-episode mystery from Queen’s Gambit auteur Scott Frank enters a crowded field that includes Severance, The Pitt, The White Lotus, The Last of Us and Netflix’s own The Diplomat .

If all of this sounds vaguely familiar it’s because just one year ago Netflix similarly sent Emmy handicappers heads’ spinning with the late-April release of Baby Reindeer . Richard Gadd’s searing, semi-autobiographical dramedy — which appeared on the kudos scene a sc

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