The most frustrating part of this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards was the wasted potential. Several discs were broken, there were many historical gains, plus upsets in abundance, and yet everyone is talking about is a bit that has been welcoming the other The Boys & Girls Club Charity Pot went from six digits to five.
When I went into the lobby at the PeaCock Theater on a particularly muggy Sunday afternoon there was actually a lot of enthusiasm for comedians Nate bargatzeFirst stint host. Not only was he already an Emmy nominee this year for his latest Netflix -comedy -special “Your friend, Nate Bargatze”, but he had also been one of the hosts under the landmark 50th season of “Saturday night live.”
His opening sketch, a game on “SNL“ Highlight ”Washington’s dream“Participating role members Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson and Mikey Day, worked super white in the room, with jokes like” What is streaming, sir? “” A new way for people to lose money, “elicits laughter from the audience full of TV Academy Members working in the industry.
Maybe chalk it up to the beginner’s happiness, or play hits, but resign a traditional monologue to announce an ongoing piece about Remove money from charity In the name of shorter numbers was dead on arrival. And followed it soon with actress Jennifer Coolidge taking the triple the time someone took to give a speech just to present Emmy to outstanding principal actress in a comedy series to “Hacks” star Jean Smart did not help.
Immediately it was clear that bargatze and Emmys Producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jannae Rouzan-Clay did not realize the extent to which they prioritized a bunch of presenter pieces that did not work (so often the case) over the most important things of awards generally show for: heartfelt acceptance.
Thankfully, the Charity Pot counting did not seem to get in the way of speeches from actors who gave breakthrough performances this season, such as “The Pitt” star Katherine Lanasa and “Severance” star Tramel Tillman, the latter became the first black winner for unique supporting actors in a drama.
But even when there were not those who impressed the figures on the board, Bargatze’s only comment on the emotional TV Moments were always some games on how the winner injured the charity pot.
It was emblematic for a problem with awards in general, one like bargatze and companies is just another example of: these are live events, and living events feed on the energy in the crowds.
If you lose the audience you lose the show. The last two Golden Globes also suffered from this, as part of the cause Iesetian joy koy took was that no one in Beverly Hilton Ballroom could actually hear him. Next year they looked at Host Nikki Glaser’s Mic was onBut none of the presenter pieces worked because the stakes made them make a joke to the camera, with their backs to the majority of the audience in the room.
About the “The late show with Stephen Colbert“Wins his first Emmy for outstanding call series on the show in the show ends Continues to be seen as the highlight of Telecast, it is because the audience inside the Peacock Theater patted and cheered for host Colbert before even reading the nominees. That win? It was the most hype that the audience ever got.
Despite the production deficiencies, there was at least an overall feeling of satisfaction with the actual price results, especially given the amount surprise. (For example, virtually everyone was happy to see “someone somewhere” star Jeff Hiller unexpectedly prevail in the outstanding support actor in a comedy series of big stars such as Harrison Ford and Colman Domingo and multi-year-old nominees as Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Bowen Yang.)
The after -parties were all cheering and refreshingly free from the kind of bad, distracting pieces that so damaged the show itself. As an allocation specialist said, “we all love a surprise, you just hope it goes to your advantage.” At the TeleCast, it didn’t.
