“[T]he attempts to incorporate political commentary into the ceremonies can run the gamut from messy to preachy to patronizing to isolating to distasteful to tone-deaf to the showbiz equivalent of screaming into an echo chamber—and expecting applause for doing so.” — Kevin Fallon
Stephen Colbert decidedly answered the question of “how anti-Trump will the Emmy Awards be?” from moment one Sunday night, when he sang an opening number titled “The World’s a Little Better on TV” with lyrics referencing the president’s alleged dealings with Russia. “Even treason’s better on TV!” he sang, as The Americans stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys sunnily danced next to him, the Daily Beast reports. Handmaids in bonnets doing a kickline soon followed.
That politics would infiltrate the Emmy Awards was inevitable, and the domination of Hulu’s dystopian cautionary fable The Handmaid’s Tale, which won every category it was nominated in during the telecast (and several more at the Creative Arts Emmys last week), certainly reflects the degree to which our culture’s latent unease and anxiety influenced voting. (Which isn’t to say that the series didn’t deserve all of its awards.)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-2017-emmy-awards-the-first-great-anti-trump-awards-show
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