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The Emmys is, first and foremost, a live program designed to celebrate entertainment while simultaneously being entertaining.
All seven of the initial Emmys handed out were received in a celebratory environment that wasnt somebodys house.
(Yes, theSchitts Creekfolksself-isolated after testing negative for COVID-19.
I stand by my point.)
But another uncomfortable paradox of the evening couldnt really be chalked up to grading on the pandemic curve.
On the one hand,more Black actors won this year than ever before.
(Bateman was there too, as part of aThe SwitchHorrible BossesOffice Christmas Partyreunion, I guess?)
(Viola Davis was the first in 2015.)
Jefferson, who, with Lindelof, received an Emmy forwriting theWatchmenepisode This Extraordinary Being,thanked his therapist.
Aduba called out Mom, I won!
to her mother in the next room.
Normalcy was invited to the Emmys, but its plus-one this year was a sense of abnormality.
Then, rather than sayingthank you, he offered a series of un-thank-yous.
Unthank you to the virus for keeping us all apart this year, he said.
Unthank you to President Trump for his crummy and uncoordinated response.
Unthank you to Boris Johnson and his government for doing the same in my country.
And unthank you to the media moguls that do so much to keep them in power.
And there may be no sentiment more 2020 than that: a feeling of relief that its all over.
