'DTF St. Louis' Wins Outstanding Limited Series Emmy, Ends Netflix — SkimNews
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- "DTF St. Louis" won the Emmy for Outstanding Limited Series at the 78th Emmy Awards, held Monday, September 14 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and broadcast on NBC.
- The win ended a three-year Netflix streak in the category: "Beef" Season 1 (2023), "Baby Reindeer" (2024), and "Adolescence" (2025), and marked the first HBO Outstanding Limited Series win since "The White Lotus" Season 1 in 2022.
- Creator Steven Conrad's seven-episode HBO dark comedy, described in HBO's synopsis as a love triangle between three middle-aged adults that ends with one of them dead, earned 13 nominations — three fewer than "Beef" Season 2's category-leading 16 — and was originally seen as a dark horse behind Ryan Murphy's "Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette."
- "DTF St. Louis" swept six Creative Arts Emmys the prior weekend: Picture Editing, Cinematography, Writing and Directing (both for Conrad), plus Supporting Actor for David Harbour and Supporting Actress for Linda Cardellini.
- Harbour had also beaten "Beef" to the Gotham Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Limited Series, with the show taking top Gotham honors over "Beef" in both categories it competed in.
- The TV Academy sparked backlash in July by moving several categories — including Writing, Directing, and both Limited Series Supporting acting races — from the live Primetime ceremony to the non-broadcast Creative Arts ceremonies; only three Limited Series categories aired on Monday night.
Why it matters: The category is a marquee bragging right for prestige TV, and HBO reclaimed it after Netflix won three consecutive years. The Creative Arts category shuffle also quietly shifted four of the show's wins off the broadcast stage, meaning the show's sweep reads larger on paper than it appeared to viewers watching NBC.
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