Wow, what a slate of winners! Jodie Comer and Phoebe Waller-Bridge for lead acting! Jharell Jerome! Michelle Williams! Billy Porter! I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many Emmy winners that I flat out loved and would have chosen myself- which tells me that the voters in the TV Academy actually watched the shows this year. Who’d a-thunk it, huh? What a concept. But to pick actors like Porter, Jerome, Williams, and Comer over the other nominees means they had to have seen those shows, or at least the submission tapes. And all the Fleabag love? I never would have predicted that to happen, but the show deserves every bit of it. It really is THAT good, and maybe since the season was so short (just six episodes at a half hour each), that probably means the voters really did watch the whole thing. I went 13/19 in my predictions, which for me, for the Emmys, is actually pretty good! Especially considering that my alternates won in three more categories, and dark horses in the rest. At least there weren’t any I was way off in, unlike in most years. As good as the winners and a lot of the speeches were, the show itself was crap and one of the most poorly produced Emmy telecasts in recent memory (what was up with that snarky commentator throughout the whole thing?), with cringe comedy bits for almost every presenter, and a painful to watch dance number that acted as one of Fox’s endless plugs for The Masked Singer. The last time the Emmys were on Fox it sucked as well, so how about just not airing the show on Fox anymore? Can we do that, people? Also, unlike the Oscars, clearly this show needs a host. Badly.
2019 EMMY WINNERS
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