The LAT Review: Emmys bear the Colbert stamp: Genial, pointed, exuberant and a little outrageous http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-emmy-awards-colbert-20170918-story.html
I thought Colbert did a good job - just enough Trump references without overdoing it, some gentle poking of the self-congratulatory nature of the event, and then a lot of self-congratulation. My FB feed is full of my liberal friends pissed about Spicer (conservative friends are saying they stopped watching Hollywood award shows a long time ago, which probably for once does put them in the mainstream). In terms of the production, I kept thinking - yes, we get it, there are black people at the Emmys. But do we really need a Hype Man as the Announcer? A couple of times he almost ran into the actual acceptance speech. They had the most aggressive play-off music we have ever seen - a couple of times ruining emotional and effective moments, which always seems so self-defeating for a show like this. I would like to see them come up with some kind of elastic filler material that they can use if speeches go short and easily cut if speeches go long, and then relax about the time limit a little - or at least give the producer some flexibility in a couple of cases. The awards themselves seemed somewhat more relevant than the Emmys have been over the last few years. I don't agree that we are in the Golden Age of television, but there is, finally, so much good television that it is hard to keep up with all of it. There were a couple of shows I have heard of but not yet watched that got bumped up on my radar (my daughters keep bugging me to watch that Pretty LIttle Liars show, I guess I will). There was a thread on this list recently about Masters of None, and whether the second season was better or worse than the first. I was pleased that they singled out the Thanksgiving episode for writing (and that Ansari allowed his co-writer to do the speech - though he may have been going in for a final word only to be cut off by the band, it was hard to tell). That Thanksgiving episode was one of the best things I have ever seen on "television" (broadly defined), and an excellent illustration of what real diversity can lead to. If Veep wasn't legitimately so freaking funny I would be salty about JLD winning yet again, but it does underline again Aaron Barhart's old idea about having shows and people only eligible for Emmy's until they win once (or may a couple of times). I hated it at first (Godfather II won an Oscar also), but some years ago I came around to his thinking - it is not really fair to keep rewarding someone for the same work over and over - all the more so with so much good work available. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
