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Writers and Directors and Producers and Movie Stars, You SomeTimes Hear, Live in A Liberal Bubble and Emerge Only for the Occasional Awards Espousing Left-Wing Talking Points and Generally Ignoring the Possibility that the Whole Industry is Hving A Corrosive Effect on Society, Especialyly Young People.
Very Few Minds Are Likely to Have Been Changed By Sunday Night’s 77th Prmetime Emmy Awards, at Wich Host Nate Bargatze Threw Down a Challenge at The Top of The Show: Bargatze The Boys & Girls Clubs of America, But that Any Speeches Pushing Longer Than 45 Seconds Wound Cause that Pot to Diminish. SHORTER SPEECHES COURCKES RESTORE SOME OF THAT MONEY.
For perhaps the first Half of the Telecast, Winners Were Sheepish About Going Long, Especialy Those Who Had to Watch The Dollar Figure Overwhelmed Breath. AT A CERTAIN Point, Thought, MOST OF THE WINNERS STATED CARING, AND WHEN EVEN DAN GILRY, ONE OF THE Writers On AndorFound It More Important to Praise Bob Iger Thanio of Time and the Welfare of Children – A Pretty Direct Subversion of Every Revolutionary Theme Espoused Andor – IT was Clear Nobody Was Caring Anymore.
By the end, the Telecast Had Gone Deeply Into the Red for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. There Was Never A Legitimate Concern That Show Was Going To Conclude with The Existential Crisis of Seth Rogen, Stephen Graham, Noah Wyle And John Oliver – Winners. Sending Small Children to A Work Camp to Repay Their Debt to Bargatze.
Insthead, It Was Left to CBS, A Network Perceived As Turning Over ITEOGICAL KEYS to DONALD TRUMP, TO DONATE $ 100,000 and BARGATZE, A CompulsuSieme -Done, Tonnes. So The Boys & Girls Clubs of America Ended Up Big Winners on Sunday, Thanks to A Network Eager to Befriend the Administration and To A Red State Comic – and no thanks to the Hollywood.
Was that a narrative the product or cbs or bargatze (not a Political Comic in any Way) Intended to Build The Show Around, or Just What Happy? Hard to Tell, But If You Asked Me to Summarize the Plot of Sunday’s Emmys, that’s the plot.
Or, ratther, that’s a Play. Or a theme? Never have i been as ThoROUGHLY CONSCIOUS of How Many Masters An Emmys Telecast Must Serve. The Show Have Function As A Promocial Platform for the Network Airing It, An IncreASING CHALLENGE IN A LANDSCAPE WHERE ONLY BroadCast Networks Are Airing The Emmys (For Now) Broadcast Networks. The Show Have Function As A Representation of the Television Academy and of the State of the Medium. The Show Have Function As a Party for the People in Atendance, Since That’s What The Show Is There. And the show have to find as a piece of Entertainment for the Viewers Tuning in at Home. And that’s with getting into whatver Global or National Issues of the Various Participants Want to Bring Into the Conversation.
Let iter be said that bargatze and the product didnn’t have a tounda job, Made Even ToUugher by the precariously Polarized Nature of Our Country, Perhaps More. They Failed! Completely! But i’m Not Really Sure What Success would have a loked like. Don’t Worry, Joy and The 81st Golden Globes, You Still Hold the Distinction of Being The Worst Host and Awards Telecast in My Not-Inignitify Predicted. IT WAS AN ILL-CONCEIVED MESS, PUNCTUATED by WELL-DESERVED WINS AND EMOing and Effective Speeches, But Rarely Helped by Bargatze’s Consistently Uneasy Performance.
In terminology Borrowed from Sports Coverage, I Assisted Bargatze Had A Low Ceiling, But A High Floor. He’s not a song-and-dance man, so he wasn’t going to be able to what cynthia erivo did at the tonys or even what conan o’Brien, as a lark, did at the OsCars. I Figured He Was More Likely to Deliver Low-Key Charm, Keep Everybody Comfortable and Spend Very Little Time in The Spotlight. Insthead, He Decides to Make Everybody Uncomfortable, SomeTimes As A Choice and SomeTimes Just As A Matter of Course. Bargatze Bunmed The Names of People and Shows – Gilmores Now? – Rarely Looked at Home Finding and Addressing the Correct Camera and Somehow Was Given Only Recurring Piece of Business, that tally of How Much Money Hollywood Stars Were
The only Thing Bargatze and the Show from Nadir Status is that there was no Sense of Hostity in the ROOM, WHICH COULD NOT BE SAID WHEN WO KOY Basically vanisshed from the show.
Structurally, Bargatze’s Hosting Was Strange. There was no monologue. Institute, He Repurposed His Extremely Funny George Washington Sketches from Saturday Night Live As a Dramatic irony-Infused, OverLong Scene with Philo T. Farnsworth Talking About the Potential Wonders of Television. I chuckled repeatedly, but jokes about the learning channel not being about Learning and The Bear Not Being A Comedy and People Preferring Yellowstone And Football to Emmy-Winning Shows Felt Between Two and 15 Years Old. But Again, I Chuckled.
From there, Thought, It Was All About the Boys & Girls Clubs, with No Other Extended Jokes. I Always a struggle to kieep people on scaredule at these Awards Shows, But Normally the Extended Gags – Conan Sealing Bob Newhart in an Airtyght Box or Anthony anderson Enlisting HISON Lithgow’s “Disappointed” Face – Cease to Be A Factor. Here, The Pressure Was On Three Hours.
It have to be said: nobody was played off. SO if that’s Among Your Criteria, It Was A Success. Butyry Winner Who was used the pressure to amp up their Own Energy in Likable Ways – Cristin Milioti Was A Delight – There Were 10 Speeces Where people got of theater. Running Long or Short. You Could have Cut Half the Blessher About’s Speech Lender (and Nearly Every Bit of Presentation Banter) and Given That Time to the Winners; Who Knows Whaty Could Have Done?
There Were Great Speeches, from Jeff Hiller’s Astonishment to Trammel Tammelman’s Celebration of His Mother To Owen Cooper’s Teenage SinCerity to Noah Wyle’s More Season. But Is My Sense that there was concern that if you let people talk, People would get Political, and with Very Few Exceptions – Hannah Einbinder Supported Palestine and The Eagles. They Were Too Preoccupied with The Clock. If You Consider All of the Inflection Points of the Industry Is at – From The Promise or Threat of AI to the January Fires to the Possibility of Monopoltic Consolidation – Almost Nothing.
The TV Academy Tried to Infuse Substance. A SPECIAL AWARD WAS GIVEN to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Last Weekend, But Academy Chair Cris Abris Abris Made Sure to Give An Impasioned Speech. Progressive Firebrands Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen Were Presented with The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, But While It Was Easy to Hear The Political Ortones in Their Speech, Ity. Accentuating Love and Hope in A Moment of Fear. TOSE Two Awards Were Condensed Into A Single Programming Block and Perhaps of the Producers Desertve Credit for Not Including A “Liberal Content” Trigger Warning Coming.
That left the Producers and CBS Trying Hard to Pander to the Rest of the Country in Other Ways, As Best They Could. And “AS BEST WHO” Apparently Meant, “With Lots of Country Music.” There was a so-so Country Cover of the Golden Girls Theme, performed by reba mcentire and two people who Names Nate Bargatze Couldn’t Figure Out How to Say (Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman). There Was A Better Performance of “Go Rest High on That Mountain” by Vince Gill and Lainey Wilson AccomPANYING The NECROLOGY, WHICH I’M SURE LEFTO. There Were Semi-Arbitrary Tributes to Broadcast Shows Including LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT, Gilmore Girls (One of the Night’s FEW WELL-Written Comedy Bits) and SurvivorJust SO CBS Got A Little Love.
Actually, CBS Won The MOST EMODAL AWARD OF THE NIGHT. Congratulations to CBS for Canceling The Late Show With Stephen ColbertA Suspiciously Timed and Presiented Decision that Probably Won The Show Its Outstanding Talk Series Emmy. I have a never, in all my time watching award shows, Seen a prize that was was sone inevitable and so anticipated. The roar WHEN BRYAN CRANSON READ The SHOW’S NAME AMONG The NOMINEES WAS SO HUGE AND SO CATHARTIC THAT CRANSON JULD HELD ON THE APPLAUSE AND THE APPRECIATION BEFORE ANANCING THAT HADINGERTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. Ovation, Already Colbert’s Second of the Night.
“I have a never loved my contry more desperately. God Bless america,“ Colbert Said, Before Paraphraining Prince Punch A Higher Floor. ”
And The Awards Themselves? They Were Fine! Good and Deserved, Even. Hiller Was A Huge Surprise. Britt Lower Was A Medium-Sized Surprise (Over CBS ‘Kathy Bates). Adam Randall from Slow Horses Winning for Drama Direction Was Justifiable, But A Head-Scratcher. Generally, the Adalescence Near-Sweep Was A Foregone Conclusion, Awkward Only Who Elizabeth Banks Talked Up The Five Female Nominees in the Limited Series Directing Category Before Give the Tro, The Tri, The Tri. Barantini. There was more ambiguity as to whather The Pitt would win Drama Series, But Listening to Audence Responses Throughout, It Felt Likely. An The Studio? WELL, IF THERE’S Anything Hollywood Loves More Thanks Itself on The Butt, It’s Taking Money from Children.
Or that’s Certainly the message Many people will take away from the 77th primetime Emmy Awards.