Arcane Won The Emmy: What Can Studios Learn From Netflix's Success?
Hollywood, and big media studios around the world, have an infuriating habit of learning the wrong lesson from both successes and failures. Luckily, sometimes a great work of art will come along and flip the script for multiple ailing pieces of the medium at once.
Arcane recently made history by being the first TV adaptation of a video game franchise to win an Emmy. The series won Outstanding Animated Program, beating out heavy hitters like Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty, The Simpsons, and even Marvel's What If…? It's a huge accomplishment for a great series, but it can also serve as an example to others.
How Arcane Gets Its Villains Right
To be more specific, Arcane's sixth episode, «When These Walls Come Tumbling Down» won the Emmy. It's the end of the second act of the season. Its high point is likely near its ending when Vi and Jinx reunite for the first time. It's also the episode in which Viktor approaches Singed and Jayce sees Heimerdinger removed from the council. It bested Rick and Morty's fifth season premiere «Mort Dinner Rick Andre», and "What if… Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?". The most unique element of the show's victory is the fact that it is a video game adaptation, which has never enjoyed this particular award. The show's genre is also interesting, as it does come from something of a rare area.
The history of video game adaptations and their gradual rise in cultural cache has been well documented. The early days featured almost non-stop disappointment for fans of gaming, with few exceptions that managed to be decent. TV is generally more prolific in its adaptations of the medium, but also less critically noticeable. The 90s featured a ton of NES, SNES, and Genesis games adapted into
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