The Netflix anthologys feature-length Emmy play this year represents a very different flavor of nostalgia.
It will always be known, more simply, as the Star Trek episode.
Callister initially seems to star Jesse Plemons as a symbol for prelapsarian nerdery.
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You get the joke: Hes a grown-up fanboy who still wants to be Captain Kirk.
But I hope Emmy voters dont overlook the real star of U.S.S.
For that reason, she deserves a nomination for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie.
Daly has other thoughts that point in another direction.
Its at this point that Milioti really takes over the screen.
Should anyone dare challenge him, hes ready with a counterattack.
Transformed into a plaything for her new dictator, Milioti briefly gives in.
Even at Nanettes lowest point, Milioti gives this material a spark.
Theyve got no genitalia: Flesh-and-blood people reduced to action figures.
Stealing my py, Nanette exclaims, is a red.
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Milioti gives that line a percussive rumble, half-Hollywood swagger and half-revolutionary declaration.
From there, Callister follows Nanette and the crew on what amounts to a heist across two worlds.
Part of Nanettes struggle in Callister is metafictional whats it like to be trapped in someoneelsesnostalgic reboot?
but Milioti makes the real-world implications palpable.
A lot to juggle, and the kind of material that could feel heavy.
But Miliotis performance is a multi-dimensional delight, exultant with possibility even when her character is most freakily entrapped.
The final act of Callister becomes a performancewithina performance, as Nanette tricks Daly into her trap.
We would cease to exist, she tells her crewmates, But wed be free.
She emphasizes that last part again.
Emmy Voters, take note!
