The best and the worst moments of Emmy 2019

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The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards began with awards for "The Wonderful Mrs. Maisel" and ended with one last big win for "Game of Thrones". But between these expected results, there have been many authentic surprises and exciting results.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge's fleabag, "Fleabag," dominated the comedy category, beating Emmy's longtime favorite "Veep" for the best comedy. Unexpected but welcome rewards were given to Jodie Comer and Waller-Bridge. Billy Porter went into history as the first openly gay winner of the Best Actor in a drama. Michelle Williams and Patricia Arquette delivered memorable and sincere acceptance speeches.

Inevitably, some things shone: a misguided gimmick tried to make people wait and Masked Singers infested the Microsoft Theater like a gigantic and colorful vermin. Here are some of the ups and downs of Sunday's Emmy extravagance. – JEREMY EGNER

Homer and his friends fill the empty host

Much of the pre-ceremony coverage has focused on the fact that the Emmys were hostless this year, and of course, the night began with nothing less than Homer Simpson, who seemed to be walking on stage (in the augmented reality style) before being leveled by an animated piano.

Anthony Anderson, the star of "Black-ish", continued its momentum. "We will leave without a host tonight!", He said, giving himself the mission to save the show. He found his savior in Bryan Cranston, winner of several awards at the Emmy Awards, which featured a montage of clips saying, "TV has never been so good."

The opening was sufficient so that some viewers did not even realize that there was no leader. Or at least, did not care.

But some people did it, or at least pretended, which caused a lot of laughs among the public. Later in the broadcast, late-night presenters Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel shifted the format of the show. "Well, well, well, how's the old case going without a host?" Said Colbert.

"What an idiotic idea," Kimmel replied. "Do you know what has a host? Applebee has a host. "

We are "the real victims," said Colbert. "If we leave this slide, the next thing you'll know, they'll start using Alexa to introduce the nominees." Which, of course, hinted at the voice of the smart wizard of Amazon's speakers, Alexa: "OK, here are the nominees for the lead role actress in a comic series." – MAYA SALAM

Thomas Lennon somehow agrees with his critics

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Instead of a host, the actor and the comedian Thomas Lennon was on hand to offer comments and jabs between segments. But the announcing jokey just was not working, which he seemed to admit at one point: "That's why people do not do it, because it sucks." It was partly due to the material – I'm not sure that Jokes on Chernobyl are the way to go – but a bigger problem lay in the way we felt about it, too distinct from the actual broadcast . Some comments had the impression that a microphone accidentally picked up the snark, and the timing never seemed quite right, so he never developed a real rhythm. – MARGARET LYONS

Phoebe Waller-Bridge: The Pervy, Angry Belle at the Ball

"It's a love story." The series featured the second stellar season of "Fleabag" and pretty much describes Emmys' reception of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who won awards for her writing and role in Amazon series, which broke the record "Veep" for the best comedy and also won a prize for comedy direction. And Waller-Bridge, with the casual and lively charm that she displayed in the series, was the carefree queen of rewards. "It's really wonderful to know and reassuring," she says, "that a dirty, perverse, angry, angry woman can go to the Emmys." And this year she did the Emmys. – JAMES PONIEWOZIK

Billy Porter goes into the story

Billy Porter, who plays in "Pose," the FX drama in the New York ball scene in the '80s and' 90s, debuted on Sunday. The actor became the first openly homosexual winner of the best actor in a drama and, true to form, his speech was moving and heartfelt. When Porter quoted James Baldwin and affirmed that "we all have the right to exist," the ceremony took on a new dimension. – AISHA HARRIS

Hidden and omnipresent

Did you know that there is a show called "The Masked Singer"? If you watched this year's Emmy Ceremony, you certainly know it now.

Of course, it is to be expected that the network presenting the prices will find the opportunity to connect its own content. But the shilling of Fox's bizarre-o show, where celebrities of varying stature and relevance sing pop songs while being hidden behind ridiculously elaborate costumes and masks – was at the next level.

Before the start of the ceremony, the disguised competitors of the second season were trotted on the purple carpet. During the show, they appeared on the stage, in the form of logo in the corner of the screen and in several commercials. Worst of all is perhaps a bit too long and not very funny between the "Masked Singer" animator, Nick Cannon, and one of the judges, Ken Jeong. It is unlikely that this overdose has converted the once unconscious believers. – AISHA HARRIS

Social media segments are common in awards fairs these days, but they are still a complete drag. Nobody really seemed to have the tedious routine of Jeong and Cannon's TikTok, which included making a public video. Alex Borstein's speech about his Holocaust survivor grandmother and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's award for best comic writing was equally embarrassing. It was a bit ugly in itself, but the placement made it look even worse. – MARGARET LYONS

Michelle Williams destroys the house

Michelle Williams, nominated Outstanding Leading Actress in a limited series of "Pit / Verdon", had one of the most enthusiastic speeches of the night. It was a rallying cry to give women in Hollywood the same money and resources as those given to male actors. "When you value someone, you give them the right to come into contact with their own intrinsic value, and then where do they place that value?" She asked. "They put it in their work."

Before that, Williams had already hit the payday: she had to earn less than 1% of what her co-star Mark Wahlberg was earning for the movie "All the money in the world". – NANCY COLEMAN

Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Bill Hader presenting the best actor award in a limited series were brilliant, stupid and short. "What's a limited series, Bill?" "A limited series is a show that has been canceled." The show did not suffer from a lack of animators in itself, but if the Academy wanted to take a different approach next year, consider these two for the concert. – MARGARET LYONS

A poignant moment for the five exonerated

Jharrel Jerome's victory as the best actor in a limited series for playing a young person wrongly convicted in Ava DuVernay's "When they see us" movie was already a pleasant surprise. But the most memorable moment of his thank-you speech came when he drew attention to the five exonerated – men whose history of injustice and racist stereotypes have given life at the series – which found themselves free and justified in the audience. The Emmys are always a celebration of entertainment and imagination, but for a moment it has become something else: history. – JAMES PONIEWOZIK

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