Variety critics DPD_ and carolineframke analyze the Emmys: 'I was really struck by how the awards show for TV was, this year, uniquely terrible TV'
It may have been a listless ceremony, but the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards picked up steam as a bevy of surprise winners came to dominate the evening.
I suspect the Emmy producers wanted a bigger going-away party for “Thrones” than they got: The ensemble cast was brought onstage to deliver a speech about what the show meant to them before they presented the supporting actress in a limited series award together. And with multiple bits of in-show “The Masked Singer” promotions, the telecast seemed to urgently want to be whatever “big tent” can even mean in 2019.
That’s all the praise I’ve got! I was really struck by how the awards show for TV was, this year, uniquely terrible TV. Thomas Lennon’s riffs on the winners as they walked to the stage felt strangely insulting or just random; the pop soundtrack and iffy, shaky direction often made the show seem outright cheap at a time when TV is more richly funded than ever.
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