This year's Emmys merged normalcy with abnormality, writes chaneyj
“Stop worrying about getting canceled and ask yourself what you’re doing to get renewed.” Photo: ABC/ABC via Getty Images During Sunday night’s 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, Watchmen creator Damon Lindelof accepted the award for Outstanding Limited Series and gave a speech in which he encouraged others to “embrace paradox.”
The Emmys is, first and foremost, a live program designed to celebrate entertainment while simultaneously being entertaining.
The PandEmmys, as Kimmel dubbed them at one point, embraced other paradoxes, both by design and by accident. The presentation of the awards this year was designed to match, as closely as possible, the way the Emmys unfolds in any other year. But it was also a testament to how much a live audience is needed to make the night flow the way it should. On more than one occasion, including an unnecessary gag involving Randall Park and an alpaca, and another in which Sterling K.
It was also an Emmys that looked back at a recent, less troubled TV past, not just in its attempts to cling to normalcy in its format where it could but in its throwbacks to old television. When Jennifer Aniston joined the broadcast from home, after an early appearance at Staples Center in which she and Kimmel literally almost started the fire, she brought Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow on-camera for a mini Friends reunion.
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