User Reviews

The opening song and dance routine with Colbert was enjoyable and after that you should have turned off the set.

Someone should tell Allison Janney and others that you don't pronounce the t in often. This is a very common mistake but shows a lack of knowledge.

When Hattie McDaniel won and deservedly so the best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for "Gone With the Wind," we all did not scream out diversity. We now choose our winners not based on merit but rather by making sure it's on a racial balance. Isn't this a form of discrimination in reverse order?

Lily Tomlin should retire. She looked haggard and her anti-Trump comment was not appreciated. I did not vote for the president but enough is enough already.

Glad to see that the director of "Genius," a biography of Albert Einstein was nominated. Geoffrey Rush and the guy who played Albert at a young age and others in the cast should have been nominated as well. Why does "Blue Bloods" continue to be ignored by the television academy?

"The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards" are a 2017 television event, in which the finest actors, writers, directors etc from the small screen were honored. It ran for 2 hours and 15 minutes roughly and this event was aired last night. Admittedly I must say that I have not seen too much from the winners here, but as a big Mad Men fan I am glad Moss finally won an Emmy and I like Lithgow and from what I have seen John Oliver is good too because honestly pretty much all the other late night shows and hosts these days are horribly bad if we compare guys like Fallon, Kimmel, Corden, Meyers etc. to the likes of Letterman, Leno or even Carson. And this includes Stephen Colbert too, the one who hosted this event. And who was maybe the worst thing from the entire night, not only because 80% of his material was classless Trump bashing, but also because the remaining 20% were at least as unfunny. And with this Trump bashing I mentioned, we also have the reference to the title of my review. One year after the election almost and boy is the liberal television industry still whining and drowning in their own tears. Boohoo b...b...but Hillary had more votes. Would you also keep mentioning that constantly if it was the other way around? Who preached to not let hate get the better of you? It's exactly these who cannot get rid of all their hate still after 10 months passed. The worst examples next to Colbert were probably Alec Baldwin (of course), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (begging for impeachment) and the 3 old angry women, who all lost their nominations last night luckily.

But I also thought that most of the celebrities handing out trophies had really no business being there, partially due to personal bias, which includes MacFarlane, Scott, LL Cool J, Rashida Jones and a couple others. And yes that announcer who talked after the winners were announced every time was unbearably bad. If the Emmys still had any class left this year, then he destroyed the last rest of it. Moments with potential were rare I must say and when there finally was one like the great choice of song for the tribute to the deceased, then they still found a way to mess things up, like with a weak performance in this very example. What else can you say? Oh yeah, diversity should be extended to more than African-Americans, but Hollywood is still decades away from understanding that I am afraid. If the idea of diversity results into a show like last night's, then I am all against it. It really wasn't a good watch at all. But back to my early statement of not letting hate cloud my judgment. Lets give a huge thumbs-up to everybody from last night who used their seconds in the spotlight to honor those they love and those who helped them on a professional level to become who they are today. These are the real heroes and not these who would not open their mouths about Obama's many failures, but are more than willing to join the media-induced chivvy on our President now. And lets appreciate those who managed to bring great comedy last night like Rachel Bloom for example and did not feel the need to put anybody down while being actually funny.

The example is the Veep crew of course whose win for Best Comedy may only come surprising if you take into account that they lost both writing and directing before that. And also with Glover taking best actor, it still wasn't enough for Atlanta to stop Veep's reign and take home the big prize. No surprise also that the embarrassment of the night came from Veep when the award recipient spoke about his deep respect for the other Best Comedy nominees and still managed to get the name of the show "Master of None" wrong. Very respectful indeed. More like he couldn't care less. Speaking about Master of None, the writing prize going to that show was not too expected I believe, but if we take a look at the two writers, it's not too surprising either. And speaking about diversity, then where is the mention of an Indian winning the screenplay prize if we already focus on the first female black winner in that category. Fitting also that Ansari did not get to say anything and I am far from a fan of him. Actually, he was maybe my least favorite on Parks and Rec. So yeah there were many awkward and embarrassing moments last night. Remember when Vanessa Redgrave got all political in her Oscar acceptance speech and received booing and heavy criticism? Today more people got political during their speeches than those who didn't and I'd really love to have those old times back. Make it about the awards again, about the performances and about a tribute to another certainly very good year of small screen entertainment. But shut up about what you think of Donald Trump. Or we will have as much of a mess at awards shows for another 3, maybe 7, years. And be worried about what may happen from North Korea if you keep signalizing their President how you don't take your President seriously at all. Then why would he? Regardless of what you may think of Trump, you will not be making things any better globally. Enough politics for now, this show was a disaster with a host that was at least as bad, probably even worse than last year's and lets pray Colbert won't get to host another awards show anytime soon. I give these 135 minutes a big thumbs-down, maybe the worst Emmy edition I have ever seen and I have seen many, highly anti-American and anti-democratic too apart from the voting progress (at least I hope that).