It must be a tribute to Breaking Bad that there is no Emmy thread currently running. I just wanted to say: Jeff fucking Daniels? Really?
I baled on the Emmy show in order to check local news; will light rail be running tomorrow after the implosion of a downtown landmark?
Not a bad show, as these things go. I was happy to see Abi Morgan win for writing in the Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special category. The BBC canceled this lovely show after two series–with stories yet to be told…
Is there a chance to see this online tomorrow? I forgot to set my DVR to record the news after the show, if it ran long, which it totally did.
Glad to see Julia Louis Dreyfuss get best comedic actress again. Veep is a killer comedy.
She did.
It also won the Most Outstanding Drama Series…finally.
Quoting myself so I can name that show–The Hour…
Regarding the actual Emmy Awards Show tonight…
So they were chasing winners off after about 30 seconds of a speech, but they allowed idiot Elton John to play some horribly boring song that had an intro alone that was longer than any speech given by the people who SHOULD have been using that time. Later they bring in Carrie Underwood to rehash “Yesterday” - which was also irrelevant to the entire event.
Who plans this out? Cheat the winners who worked their asses off for the better part of a year of filming and rush them off stage - so they can instead waste time with idiotic musical numbers that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the show, or any other show/series nominated.
Maybe they should show snippets of NFL games during the Oscars - who needs to see stupid clips of movies and actors and listen to what they have to say?
I’ve got to agree. This was one of the poorer Emmys in recent history. And we’re far from alone in our opinion. Just a really confused event. I did think most of the wins were well earned, but I hope they format the thing a little better next year.
For the first time in memory I turned off an awards show and left the room before it ended. The repeat win by Claire Danes was the last straw in a baffling show for me. Per tweets from various entertainment journalists, the atmosphere backstage was mainly “WTF?” throughout the night, because no one understood what was going on. At all.
At least we got to see what Lena whatsername’s drapes used to look like.
I was really hoping for a good intro with NPH, maybe a song & dance number. Wow- that sucked. Stupid and boring. The only saving grace was Spacey turning to talk to the camera a la his House of Cards narration style.
Jeff Daniels over Cranston and Hamm? Pshaw. He didn’t even have the grace to act surprised.
Also, Claire Danes needs to grow a pair if she’s gonna wear that kind of dress.
I can’t believe that’s the first Emmy for Bob Newhart.
Also, they could have cut out the individual ‘In Memoriams’. They were nice and touching and all, but why were those certain individuals chosen and all the others lumped into the slideshow? I can see why they didn’t have Corbin Bernsen do one for Jeanne Cooper though after what he did at the daytime Emmys. 
Not to mention that he chewed a piece of gum the entire time.
I actively enjoy watching the Newsroom. I enjoy Jeff Daniels’ performance on The Newsroom. But comparing his performance to either Bryan Cranston or Damian Lewis is just bizarre. (I don’t watch Mad Men, so can’t compare there.)
That is truly one of the most baffling choices I’ve ever seen in any awards ceremony.
(Best supporting actor was screwy also… Bobby Cannavale was quite good in Boardwalk Empire, but nothing really exceptional, and he beat out Aaron Paul, Jonathan Banks and Peter Dinklage. Baffling. You’d expect that to be some situation where it was just because Boardwalk Empire was super popular, or maybe a makeup vote for years of previous snubs, or SOMETHING, but I just can’t come up with any justification at all.)
Well, he got naked.
And he beat people up and…yeah, other than being a badass bareass, I got nuthin’.
I don’t want to live in a world where Dancing with the Stars can be nominated for an award. Please tell me it didn’t win anything, or I’m not sure I can go on.
Yeah there was absolutely no complexity to Cannavale’s character. I have nearly forgotten that he existed already (a few episodes into the next season). All he had to do was play a crazy brute. Hooray for him.
I really loved the clip I saw of Tony Hale following Julia Louis-Dreyfus on stage. I love Veep!
Although, now I know that Kevin Spacey did a nod to his show too, the Veep thing doesn’t sound so special. Sigh.
OK, I won’t tell you that it won best choreography.
Oops.
