Awards Are Bullshit Until You Win One
Posted by Maggie
September 17th, 2007 at 10:51am
In 30 Rock Special Events
The Emmys are a dark, twisted, not-at-all-in-touch-with-reality version of what’s “quality” television. Everyone knows this. And yet, they’re not all bad…
After all the frustration of the 3+ hours of miniseries and made-for-TV movies that no one cares about and the puzzling winners and the singing salute to to the Sopranos, it was a relief to see Tina up on stage self-deprecating and getting her just desserts.
Other than that, the whole thing was kind of painful. We started watching half an hour late, but that wasn’t nearly enough time on the ol’ TiFaux to fast-forward past everything we wanted to fast-forward.
Highlights:
- I kind of enjoyed the gladiator-style, possible cage-match, summer production of All’s Well That Ends Well-esque in-the-round set. Easier to spy on the people in the background.
- Steve Carrell, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert.
- Colbert loses to Tony Bennett — what old man singing is going to beat him next year? Can’t wait to hear what he’s going to say about it.
- “It’s HIGH-GUL, actually.”
- Elaine Strich.
- Kristen Bell sitting next to Masi Oka.
Lowlights:
- Ryan Seacrest.
- Jersey Boys musical tribute to the Sopranos. WHY was this necessary?
- Poor Masi Oka having to talk to Tom from MySpace. Ugh. Also, Kristen Bell looked really bored.
- Lewis Black. Irritating. Not funny.
- Why are there so many awards for mini-series and made-for-TV movies? I counted about 87. No one watches mini-series and made-for-TV movies. The same three kept getting called up. BORING.
- NPH and Rainn Wilson got robbed. By Jeremy Piven.
- I don’t know. Everything else, I guess.
3 Comments Add your own
1. maggie's dad | September 17th, 2007 at 11:16 am
It could have been worse. As you know, I started watching EARLY in the hope of seeing some major dress miscalculation (preferably of the sexually revealing type: very disappointing – Taste and elegance seems to have erupted among the LALA celebrity dressers) with Chinese Food and Wine. Where is Bjork when you need her!
By the time Louis Black started to rant I had overdosed on MSG and Merlot and dozed off. So I only saw the boring part and missed Tina’s big moment. I guess I’ll refer to my TiVo to see it and find out what Sally Field did this time.
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Dan | September 17th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Elaine Stritch is incredible. God.
And the Colbert/Carell/Stewart hugfest was adorable.
The show was quite a bore. Especially in the sense that most of the winners weren’t awful, just not who we wanted to see. Steve Carell lost, but so did Charlie Sheen. And it’s hard to get upset about seeing Ricky Gervais get it. Etc.
I almost wanted to see all the awful people win so that I could just continue with righteous indignation.
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sara | September 17th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Extras is pretty damn hilarious, so I’m totally okay with Ricky Gervais winning. Especially because it caused that big three-way dance-hug thing between Stewart, Colbert, and Carell. And 30 Rock‘s win made me so happy.
But God, I hate every single person who voted for Katherine Heigl almost as much as I hate Shonda Rhimes for every single shitty storyline she’s given Katherine Heigl since like episode 4 of season 1. GAH.
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