When the best part of your Emmy Awards broadcast tonight is the short sendoffs to series that have finished including Games of Thrones and Veep, you might want to get your gaze out of the rearview mirror before you lose control.
Sadly, that’s not what the host-free 71st Primetime Emmy Awards chose to do. Which is why the just over three-hour result skidded all over the small-screen equivalent of the street on Sunday.
Yes, there were big wins for HBO’s GoT and Chernobyl in the Drama and Limited Series categories, Amazon’s Fleabag for Comedy and Netflix’s Bandersnatch from the Black Mirror team in the Outstanding Television Movie slate. There was a censorship bleep for Succession creator Jesse Armstrong quoting Donald Trump, though it was a night of relatively few direct hits at Hollywood’s Potus piñata.
There was also history made by Pose star Billy Porter...
Sadly, that’s not what the host-free 71st Primetime Emmy Awards chose to do. Which is why the just over three-hour result skidded all over the small-screen equivalent of the street on Sunday.
Yes, there were big wins for HBO’s GoT and Chernobyl in the Drama and Limited Series categories, Amazon’s Fleabag for Comedy and Netflix’s Bandersnatch from the Black Mirror team in the Outstanding Television Movie slate. There was a censorship bleep for Succession creator Jesse Armstrong quoting Donald Trump, though it was a night of relatively few direct hits at Hollywood’s Potus piñata.
There was also history made by Pose star Billy Porter...
- 9/23/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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