Uzo Aduba picked up a best comedy Emmy nomination for The Residence after the Netflix murder mystery was cancelled after one season.
Aduba starred as eccentric detective Cordelia Cupp, who was enlisted to help solve the murder of White House chief usher A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito) during a White House state dinner. Aduba as Cupp was billed as the “greatest detective in the world.”
Had The Residence gone to a second season, the plan was for the whodunnit to become an anthology series with Cupp taking on a new case each season. Aduba won an earlier Emmy in 2014 for outstanding guest actress in a comedy for her role as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on Orange Is the New Black, and a year later took the Emmy for outstanding actress in a drama for the same role.
Then in 2020, Aduba was awarded the win for best actress in a limited series or movie for her role on Mrs. America.
Netflix canceled The Residence after a one season run. The freshman series hailed from Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland and creator/showrunner Paul William Davies (Scandal).
The Hollywood Reporter TV critic in a review of the series wrote: “The Residence is an entertainingly chaotic goof, a dramedy that immediately sets a frantic tone that’s only occasionally varied in the seven episodes (out of eight total) sent to critics. I found it both amusing and exhausting, with Aduba’s performance and the energy of the wildly overstuffed ensemble elevating a mystery that’s treated with too much frenzy to ever become emotionally involving.”
The cast for the first (and only) season of the Columbo-esque mystery series also featured Randall Park, Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, Edwina Findley, Bronson Pinchot, Mary Wiseman, Julieth Restrepo, Al Mitchell, Mel Rodriguez, Ken Marino, Jason Lee and Jane Curtin, among others.
Davies executive produced the series with Shondaland principals Rhimes and Betsy Beers.
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