If anyone doubts that this is a shiny golden age for British television talent (yes, yes — it really is) then the Emmy awards surely put those naysaying qualms to bed. It showered British writers, actors and directors with trophies and sacrificed a widely expected valedictory (and sentimental) moment for Julia Louis-Dreyfus for the final season of Veep, giving the Leading Actress in a Comedy Series to Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag instead. Had Louis-Dreyfus, who was recently treated for cancer, won, she would have set a record for being the most decorated Emmy winner.
Yet this was Waller-Bridge’s night. A role as the fictional US president was beaten by a “dirty, pervy, messed-up, angry woman” running a small café in London (Waller-Bridge’s description
