Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor TV Academy… please don’t let Beverly Goldberg leave this world without an Emmy nomination.
If one asked Wendi McLendon-Covey how she created the lovable and zany mom from “The Goldbergs,” I’d imagine she’d use one of the overbearing matriarch’s famous lines delivered to a random stranger regarding the origins of her three children: “I made these people.
Me. I made them with my body.” With an undeniable “schmoop” factor and countless “huggies,” McLendon-Covey made the unapologetic “smotherer” with her body, heart and soul.
Her phenomenal work in the ABC comedy series will surely be one of the finest in sitcom history, and we’re all the better for it. Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Emmy predictions in all categories.
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