Tag: Emmys

  • Emmys 2021 Reactions

    Emmys 2021 Reactions

    In a battle royale of award courting budgets it was clear that HBO came to play. Netflix and The Crown dominated many of the televised categories. The much deserving Ted Lasso reigned mostly supreme for comedy (and rightfully so). Here is our Emmys 2021 reactions: Unfortunately though the stage was once again awash in white…

  • Emmys 2021 Picks

    Emmys 2021 Picks

    In truth there are 20 kajillion Emmys categories which on the one hand is very exciting that a wider berth of artists get to be recognized for something as specific as Outstanding Period And/Or Character Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) or Outstanding Choreography For Scripted Programming.  Alas if every category were to be presented on-air the telecast would…

  • Emmys 2020 Reactions

    Emmys 2020 Reactions

    If you’ve been in a Zoom All Hands – multiply that by a bunch of very rich and good looking people who are probably even less tech savvy, that was the 2020 Emmys experience.  From Jimmy Kimmel’s bizarre intro intercut to b-roll footage of previous year’s audiences, to the awkward intermittent presenters, to the horrifically…

  • Emmys 2020 Picks

    Emmys 2020 Picks

    The Emmys for 2020 are here and somehow we’ve managed to regress even more, with even less shows than last year getting nods. The way the Emmys bridge 2 calendar years can make things confusing. The amount of content out there is also overwhelming. Yet to say that only these handful of shows had the…

  • Emmys 2019 Reactions

    Phoebe Waller-Bridge accepts the award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for “Fleabag” at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images) In a telecast that ranked somewhere between uneventful to outright boring – the…

  • Emmys 2019 Picks

    Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and The Priest (Andrew Scott). Photo Courtesy: BBC It’s also clear that there are only about 15 shows total on television right now. Oh wait just kidding we’re in the golden age of content for television and yet somehow only the same batch of shows are getting nominations. Something here is broken. ​In…