The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards featured a wide range of skits, songs and speeches. Some of them stole the show and others may have missed the mark.
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Sterling K. Brown, left, Kate McKinnon, Tituss Burgess, Kristen Bell, Kenan Thompson and RuPaul Charles perform tongue-in-cheek opening number “We Solved It” at Sunday’s Emmy Awards.(Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY NETWORK)
The Emmy Awards spread the love Sunday night, rewarding critical favorites (“The Americans”), repeat winners (Regina King) and stunned first-time honorees (Thandie Newton). More highlights from this year’s show:
Diversity-themed opening number, monologue draw mixed reactions. The Emmys had its most diverse group of nominees in history this year – a fact that hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost awkwardly leaned into in their opening monologue, in which they roasted “The Handmaid’s Tale” (“It’s ‘Roots’ for white women’) and Roseanne Barr (“‘Roseanne’ was canceled by herself, but picked up by white nationalists”). The jokes – as well as the star-studded musical performance that preceded it, about TV’s diversity problem being “solved” – were widely criticized as “weird” and “uncomfortable” by users on Twitter.
“Maisel” makes a marvelous showing. HBO’s fantasy hit “Game of Thrones” snagged its third best drama series award, but it was the breakthrough “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” that owned the night. Amazon’s comedy about a 1950s housewife-turned-standup comic swept the five major categories in which it was nominated, picking up best comedy series, actress (Rachel Brosnahan), supporting actress (Alex Borstein), writing and directing (“Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino).
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