About Last Night…The Emmys

Let’s talk about Monday night’s TV!

The Emmys: It was a weird show! In some ways, it felt like it was dissected into two parts: The wild card start and the (very) predictable close-out. I’m not begrudging the repeat winners, but when most of the top prizes go to the same people, it gets a bit boring and hard to maintain excitement.

The highlights:

• Sheryl Lee Ralph. Full stop, no contest. A deserved win, and an absolutely epic acceptance speech/song.
• Kenan and Kel reuniting for a GOOD BURGER joke…oh, my childhood heart was overjoyed. (And Pete Davidson was correct: Kenan Thompson has been quietly killing it for 30 years. I’m glad people are appreciating him.)
• Quinta Brunson!! But how absolutely disappointing her extremely well-deserved moment—which was also important for broadcast television as a whole, given how utterly ignored those shows tend to be—was juxtaposed with Jimmy Kimmel continuing his shtick pretending to be unconscious on the stage. Not the time or place for Kimmel to make it about himself.
• Every ridiculous second of Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni’s baiting.
• I don’t care if THE SIMPSONS joke felt like it came out of 1991, it made me happy.
• Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak poking fun at how “easy” TV is to do now, after they went through full 22+ episode seasons…absolutely excellent.

The lowlights:

• Look, props to Kenan for giving it his all, but what was that interpretive dance number montage? If it had been nominated shows, fine, I guess I could understand that, but it was such a hodgepodge of shows/franchises included.
• Good lord, do not start playing off winners 30 minutes into the show. And the strict acceptance speech time also made it so at least one winner was hesitant to use their interpreter. That’s not okay, at all.
• ::whispers:: I promise there are more than, like, five good shows on TV. Frankly, having a number of good/surprising wins early on gave me false hope we might see a shakeup of the outstanding drama/comedy, but…alas.

Which shows did you watch last night?

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