Stars like Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lee Jung-jae, and Jennifer Coolidge are among the breakthroughs on a show that mostly gets it right
Year in and year out I find myself baffled by the choice producers of awards shows make when deciding what they’ll spend their airtime on. Namely, I yell constantly at my television when I realize the thing they opt to cut back on is the thing we all tune in to watch: the speeches!
Listen, I get it, car commercials masked as comedy skits need to be aired and dance troupes need to be employed for a competent if awkward opening number, but could we allow an award telecast to be about, well, the awards themselves?By the time the third speech of the night was in full swing , the ruthlessness of the speech timer was on full display; the English actor knew right away he was being played off and tried playing it off casually. But it only got worse as the night wore on.
As ever, though, the greatest highlights of the night came courtesy of a bevy of great speeches that either ruefully challenged those pesky time-keepers or outright silenced them altogether. Watching Jennifer Coolidge refuse to be played off, eventually shimmying her way through as she kept trying to keep her hilarious speech going was utterly joyous.
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