'The Pitt' Beats 'Severance' for Best Drama in Emmys Upset

"Severance" wasn't invincible after all. Near the end of the 77th Emmy Awards, HBO Max's "The Pitt" beat Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller's Apple TV+ show for Outstanding Drama Series. Plenty of prognosticators had their money on "Severance," whose second season debuted in January to stellar reviews and seemed unbeatable . . . until "The Pitt," which premiered around the same time and started generating buzz in the late winter/spring. TheWrap's Steve Pond predicted this very outcome in one of his last Emmy columns of the season. Why? "Maybe because 'The Pitt' came on . . .