Stranger Things fails to pick up single Emmy Award despite five nominations

It seems its luck turned Upside Down

The Emmy Awards has a history of handing out the evening's biggest prize to those television shows which capture the zeitgeist with such a force they carve themselves out as a must-see cultural phenomenon (see: Lost in 2005).

Perhaps it's for this reason why many expected Stranger Things, the sleeper hit which aired on Netflix in the latter stages of 2016, to be awarded one of the ceremony's most coveted trophies - Outstanding Drama Series. Frustratingly for fans, the series failed to win a single award.

Stranger Things - which is returning for a second season next month - became a front-runner after picking up five nominations earlier this year including for Supporting Actor (new Hellboy David Harbour) and Supporting Actress (Eleven herself, Millie Bobby Brown). Hell, even Barb got in on the action with actor Shannon Purser nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress.

The TV show that stole Outstanding Drama Series from under Stranger Things' nose was Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel starring Elisabeth Moss who finally won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series having been nominated a total of six times for her role as Peggy Olsen in Mad Men.

However, this isn't to say the series didn't go completely unappreciated: just last week, Stranger Things won five awards at the Creative Arts Emmys which awards TV's technical achievements.

Elsewhere, Donald Glover became the first ever African-American to win Best Directing for his work on FX comedy series Atlanta while multiple awards went to Saturday Night Live with both Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon receiving trophies for their appearances on the sketch show as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

You can find a full list of the evening's winners - including Big Little Lies and Black Mirror - here.