Geektown Awards – Best New & Returning Non-Sci-fi Drama
Happy New Year, and a happy new decade to everyone! As is traditional here at Geektown, we kick off the new year with the announcement of the Geektown Award Winners! I wanted to say a huge thank you to the thousands of people that voted in this year’s awards and also, make sure your phones are switched on. The winners of the main prize and the runner-up prize will be getting called later this evening, so if you entered and get a phone call from a number you don’t know, make sure you pick up!
Now on to the category winners, as we start by announcing the Best New & Returning Non-Sci-fi Drama categories. Here are the shows you voted for!
Best New Non-Sci-fi Drama
Nominees: New Amsterdam – Amazon Prime/E4, Flack – W, Dead To Me – Netflix, The Morning Show – Apple TV+, The Capture – BBC One, You – Netflix
Bronze: The Capture – BBC One
Silver: Dead To Me – Netflix
And the Gold goes to …
Winner: You – Netflix
Last year, there was a clear frontrunner from the start with ‘Killing Eve’ in this category. This year things were a lot closer, with only 2% separating the top 4 spots. However, it was a “loveable” stalker/serial killer who won out in the end, in Netflix’s ‘YOU‘ from Greg Berlanti (DC/CW shows, ‘Riverdale’) and Sera Gamble (‘The Magicians’, ‘Aquarius’, ‘Supernatural’).
Season 1 saw brilliant bookstore manager Joe (Penn Badgley – ‘Gossip Girl’) cross paths with “Beck” (Elizabeth Lail – ‘Once Upon a Time’) an aspiring writer. Using the internet and social media as his tools to gather the most intimate of details and get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes an obsession as he quietly and strategically removes every obstacle – and person – in his way…
Season 2, which has just launched on Netflix, sees Joe head to Los Angeles under a new identity, and looking for love again, which is handy as he meets her… quite literally! The object of “Will’s” interest this season is Love Quinn, played by Victoria Pedretti (‘Haunting Of Hill House’). Love is an aspiring chef working as a produce manager in a high-end grocery store and is uninterested in the world of social media, branding and self-promotion, focused instead on leading an interesting life. She is also tending to a deep grief – and when she meets “Will”, she senses a shared knowledge of profound, life-changing loss.
Best Returning Non-Sci-fi Drama
Nominees: Big Little Lies – Sky Atlantic, Billions – Sky Atlantic, Jack Ryan – Amazon, Line of Duty – BBC One, Mindhunter – Netflix, Orange Is The New Black – Netflix, Peaky Blinders – BBC One, Poldark – BBC One, Succession – Sky Atlantic
Bronze: Jack Ryan – Amazon
Silver: Peaky Blinders – BBC One
And the Gold goes to …
Winner: Line of Duty – BBC One
Unlike the close result in it’s ‘New Drama’ cousin, ‘Best Returning Non-Sci-fi Drama’ had a clear winner. Taking nearly 25% of the vote was Jed Mercurio’s ‘Line Of Duty‘, which returned for its 5th Season in 2019 having taken a break so Mercurio could produce his other smash hit ‘Bodyguard’. The season saw Fleming, Arnott and Hastings follow a new case for the police anti-corruption unit, AC-12, nearly two years on from the previous instalment. Regular series lead Vicky McClure returned as DS Kate Fleming, alongside Martin Compston as DS Steve Arnott, and Adrian Dunbar as Supt. Ted Hastings.
A 6th season is currently underway, with ‘Boardwalk Empire’ star Kelly Macdonald joining as “guest lead” to play Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson, the senior investigating officer of an unsolved murder, whose unconventional conduct raises suspicions at AC-12. No news on when ‘Line Of Duty’ Season 6 will premiere yet, but we are expecting it in 2020.
