*Not really I know any post about this show risks a lot of #Emmysodull or #Emmysoirrelevant or (at least on a big part of my Twitter) #Emmysowhite, but it’s worth it.
John Oliver beat Conan for best talk show, but shouted him out at the top of his acceptance speech, giving Conan a chance to do a small comedy bit of pretending he thought he was being told he won, then getting disappointed, but also unleashing Conan for the rest of the night. Later Oliver was chief among those rooting Conan on in his antics. There is already quite a debate about the ethnic dynamics underlying the winners. For my money the nominees were quite diverse, and the winners entirely predictable and at least defendable, with the possible exception of a somewhat overrated season of The Crown. Most of the outrage on my Twitter feed seems forced and performative, with the best case made for Michaela Coel losing to Kate Winslet for best actress in a mini-series, though frankly, in the strongest category of the night I was rooting for either Anya Taylor-Joy or Elizabeth Olsen. Coel did win I think for writing. However there is no question that Cedrick the Entertainer (again, predictably, IMO) was mostly not good, and from a comic standpoint Conan both stole and saved the show. If Conan won the night, the big loser was Scott Frank, winner of best directing in a miniseries for Queens Gambit (well deserved IMO), but gave a pitch perfect performance as a privileged, pompous clueless and boring white man in his acceptance speech, reading several long pages, ignoring and then shouting down the playoff music, apparently concluding that since Debbie Allen did something similar minutes before fir a kind of lifetime achievement award, while giving a passionate and inspirational speech, he could do the same. He was wrong. I guess whatever network airs the show puts one of its people in as host (I did not know Cedrick had a show on CBS), but if they know what’s good for them they will figure out a way to get Conan to host next year. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKOKgvJ-FOTu%3DmoLWhyt9adDu4738Y0mRvLOfV_9VoAqQ%40mail.gmail.com.
