Emmys 2022: Variety’s TV Critics Break Down the Best Speeches, Rushed Jokes and Deserved Winners
13.09.2022 - 21:05
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Emmys came sparklingly alive thanks to speeches by a strong slate of winners. The production seemed eager to bring back the grand-scale awards show after a dialed-back COVID era, with a booming pop soundtrack and a packed house. Variety’s TV critics were divided on some elements of the show, from the hosting to the speeches to the wins themselves. The morning after the ceremony, they had some coffee and hashed it all out. Daniel D’Addario: Sometimes I wonder if the Emmys, specifically, need a host. The show appeared insecure that people might not recognize the nominees, many of them legitimate zeitgeist hits, and so larded the broadcast with montages of other, more self-consciously “mainstream” shows. And the show was committed to coming in at three hours — so much so that they played off, for instance, winner Jennifer Coolidge, for whose crowning moment fans of the hit “White Lotus” had been waiting for all year. Surely a minute or two more of her vamping would have been more memorable than host Kenan Thompson stumbling through choreography to the “Brady Bunch” theme song in the opening; her doing a jig to the play-off music proved she’s a better dancer, too.
But in seriousness, a show with as many categories as the Emmys rises or falls on the caliber of its winners, and I thought the speeches were nicely done across the board, from the genial humility of “Succession’s” Matthew Macfadyen to the triumphant song of “Abbott Elementary’s” Sheryl Lee Ralph — whose glittering regalia and sense of herself as worthy of a serenade stood out in a ceremony that, too often, seemed vaguely embarrassed by the nominees and winners on the show. Caroline Framke: Whew, coming in hot! I absolutely agree that Coolidge — as well as
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