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On paper, some of the biggest winners of the night mightve looked like surprises.
Look at all our safe choices!
LOW: E!s incomprehensible red-carpet coverage.E!
Mics went out to Lil Dicky?
Chet Haze must be so jealous.
HIGH/LOW: Seth Rogens strikingly honest-sounding joke about COVID safety.
They told us this was outdoors!
It isnot!I wouldnothave come to this!
This is TVs night!
Do sports another time!
Its too bad the Emmys forgot he existed after the first hour.
HIGH: Kerry Washingtons brief tribute to Michael K. Williams.It was short but poignant.
Michael was its crazy to say was, Washington said.
(Never again,Adele Dazeem.)
The room reacted, but the camera focused insistently on the less interesting guy up front.
HIGH:Ali Barthwellwon an Emmy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ali!!!!!!!
There is a lot of good work on those shows, but it is so.
HIGH: Bowen Yang carefully stomping out onto the stage in hisglorious boots.Yes Kevin Feige, Iamathletic!
HIGH: Jean Smarts win forHacks.Instant standing ovation was the correct response.
(Giving Jean Smart the orchestral cue to stop talking wasnotthe correct response.)
LOW: Where are all the nonwhite winners?Especially in the acting categories?
Until that, point no nonwhite winners had spoken onstage.
We cant take these things for granted.
WHOA: Ewan McGregor won an Emmy forHalston?RememberHalston?The show about Halston.
Where they just keep saying Halston.
LOW: You dont have to keep giving awards toHamilton.It already has so many awards!
It would have been fine to have recognized something else!
They probably wouldnt even have noticed!
Sorry CBS, host of TVs show!
Aside from recognition for Colbert, voters did notfeel this fall.
