“Hello and welcome to Pandemmys!”
Host Jimmy Kimmel presented the 2020 Emmy Awards, an exhibition unlike any other in the 72-year history of the televised rite of awards due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is no audience at Staples Center in Los Angeles, so host Jimmy Kimmel was left alone on stage There is no red carpet, no same dazzling old fashion show or stupid questions.
But between the video that nominees communicate in their award speeches and Kimmel and his friends to make lemonade with the horribly bitter lemons of 2020, there were wonderful moments and also many bad ones.
Worse: Kimmel plays violins, world burns
Despite the unprecedented nature of broadcasting, the intense cultural upheaval of 2020, and the option to do something entirely new with the awards ceremony, Kimmel began the evening with a competitive similarity, a boring monologue that joked about the pandemic and the 2020 election as if it was just the typical crisis point that is roaring globally. Cut into scenes of a former Emmy audience laughing at their new monologue, Kimmel to be in their own little universe, a comic that makes jokes While the world burns with the futility of total farce.
Full list of winners: ‘Watchmen’ wins limited series, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ sweeps into comedy categories
At one point, there was a literal chimney, when he was a little with Jennifer Aniston, he “disinfected” the winner’s envelope by turning it on and asking Aniston to turn it off, and the trash can turned out to be too strong for his fireplace. extinguisher A metaphor for something? Probably. .
Best: Sweeping a Schitt
Every once in a while, the Emmy electorate gets it right. The last season of Pop TV’s captivating sit-off comedy was overlooked during the peak of his tour of the Television Academy. Voters have in fact supported it this year. The series won all seven comedies distributed Sunday through the Emmys, meaning the entire first hour of the broadcast dates back to Emmy’s “Schitt’s” (where all participants communicated remotely after receiving negative COVID testing). It is very rewarding and cathartic to revel in the “transformative force of love and acceptance” of “Schitt”, which star and co-creator Dan Levy spoke of in one of his many acceptance speeches.
The best and the worst: presenters
Even if Kimmel’s regular monologue gave the impression that the Emmy Awards were being held as usual, the awarding of each of the many awards to nominees around the world may simply not be. Ellis Ross, among them) appeared at Staples Center, the exhibit basically about how to show off something new, listening to doctors, an assistant and a lovely UPS worker, a way to recognize the moment we live in without drowning in depression and pain. the fact that Jimmy or DJ D-Nice casually rejected the lead actor’s winners in a miniseries or TV movie made those categories a little less exciting (no one has to think their category is below average, even if it is).
Worse: an assembly of ‘friends’
The maximum applicable TELEVISION prank Kimmel and the show’s writers can make in 2020 to get Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow into a combined play?Could we be more bored?
Best: Win ”Watchmen” and Regina King’s speech
HBO’s “Watchmen” is one of the most productive television series of the 2019-2020 season, and has become more important as racial equality protests took place across the country. how special the series is and the importance of describing the Tulsa massacre in 1921 in its acceptance speeches. The moving words of King and Abdul Mateen were among the most productive speeches of the night.
Worse: nominees who have not approached
When the awards take a position wherever the nominees are, there are many excuses not to zoom in (or employ ABC’s video chat generation that looks better than my own old painting meetings) Where were Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Cate Blanchett, Jeremy Irons, Michael Douglas, Toni Collette and others who didn’t give us a window in their perfectly decorated houses?It was a little embarrassing, even if they didn’t win.
Best: Emmy delivered in dangerous tissue combinations
There’s nothing funny about it.