Jonathan Tropper received his first real Emmy nomination for season two of Apple TV’s Your Friends & Neighbors — not that he expected it. That’s not modesty, it was ignorance. Your Friends & Neighbors season three, which picks up just two weeks after the second season ends, was filming on location in Europe when the nominations came out. Tropper says he didn’t even know it was nominations day.
“It just wasn’t on our radar,” Tropper tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The show wasn’t nominated for season one — does this mean season two is better than season one?
You love all your kids, right? The show was successful in season one. It got a lot of acclaim, and it got a lot of viewers. And then in season two, it just felt like we hit another level. Season twos are always more fun to do because you don’t have to do any world-building. It’s all about taking the characters you’ve already built and going deeper. I never think about awards, especially since I tend to be a bit of a populist when I write, and that’s the stuff that tends to not necessarily get the nominations. Also, I thought of our show as something that people were loving, but you know, is it a comedy or is it a drama? We’re one hour, so we’re a drama, but we’re not a drama like certain other shows are dramas, and that makes it tricky when it comes to awards because we don’t necessarily fit cleanly into a category. So, I was thrilled that there was enough consensus to at least put us in the conversation.
