Megan Amram made a web series. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s called An Emmy For Megan, and it’s about a fictionalized Megan Amram creating a web series called An Emmy For Megan in order to win an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. It’s a taut, psychologically dense piece of filmmaking that absolutely meets all the minimum requirements required to qualify for the Emmys. Amram stars as Amram. D’Arcy Carden shows up as D’Arcy Carden. It’s a series, and on the web, and it is nominated for two Emmys.
Well, viewers invested in fictional Megan’s Emmy dreams can now watch her pursue them, instead of watching the Emmys. IFC has announced it will air the series in full—all 28 minutes and 7 seconds of it—on September 17, during the goddamned Emmy Awards. In a press release announcing the television premiere of “the most important piece of entertainment of the past 2,000 years,” IFC General Manager Blake Callaway says, “What IFC loves most about Megan is that she is all about the art, and also the hardware.” Amram adds, “Since the internet is hard to access unless you have a smart phone or a laptop or a tablet or a desktop computer or an eBook reader or an iPod Touch or a Smart TV or an Apple Watch, we’ve put it on cable television where it’s easy to find!”
Amram, a writer for The Good Place, is nominated for two Emmys, both for her “brave and tumultuous performance” and as a producer for An Emmy For Megan, which is nominated for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. The double nomination threw her for a bit of a loop. As she told Vulture:
I had not fathomed how I would be recognized for both my acting and my general producing of my series, and I’m overjoyed that I was recognized. You know what? I take it back — being nominated is an honor, I thought about it. But I think it’s something that I’ll definitely have to comment about, should I win two of them: Does it take away from the integrity of my campaign? I don’t want anyone to think that I was lying to them or being anything but very forthcoming and truthful the whole time. So this wasn’t intentional. I wasn’t trying to lie and say I only wanted one when in actuality I want two.
No matter what happens on Emmy night, you can expect to hear this exact statement from Emmy nominee Megan Amram: