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Matthew Rhys accepts the award of the main actor in a dramatic series for his role in "The Americans".(Photo: Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY NETWORK)
Notebook of our NBC Emmy Awards 2018 Television Critic:
From presenters to presenters to the best, worst, most exciting (and boring) moments of the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Best: Long live the "Americans"
"The Americans" was one of the best television shows of the last decade and the most deserved awards of the evening were writing (won by co-producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg) and Matthew Rhys for 'interpretation. If only Keri Russell had surpassed her worthy rivals to win the best actress and the series was recognized for her best drama, the evening would have been perfect.
Worse: "Game of Thrones" wins, mainly by default
Talk about a lame final category. "Game of Thrones", which won the seventh season in the outstanding drama category, was an anti-climax end to an evening that saw surprise winners in other categories. "Thrones" is a heavyweight, and giving the trophy to the fantasy series, it's like giving it to "La La Land": boring, waited and not fully deserved (if only it was an error this times too). I will never stop shooting for the last exquisite season of "The Americans".
Best: A "wonderful" evening
The show has aired through the awards, which is good for anyone who wants to go to bed at a reasonable time, but also a bit overwhelming. But seeing the long-awaited veterans Alex Borstein ("The wonderful Ms. Maisel") and Henry Winkler ("Barry") finally got their due, the winners having offered a real emotional warmth to the show. The many victories of Amazon's vintage comedy "The Wonderful Mrs. Maisel" (and especially her co-creative Amy Sherman-Palladino) were an enchanting early evening. "Maisel" was also the first series of streaming to take the best comedy Emmy, which was a delightful conclusion.
Best: "I do not even believe in God, but I'll thank her tonight."
Thandie Newton won the award for supporting an actress in a drama, beating three actresses of "Handmaid's Tale". (Two other stars of "Handmaid", Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley, presented the prize). Newton is still the best part of the confusing mess that "Westworld" has become, and it only improved in the second season of the show.
Thandie Newton accepts the exceptional support actress in a drama series for "Westworld". (Photo: AFP / Getty Images)
Worse: the number of opening
The first musical issue was basically an oversized version of a musical monologue "Saturday Night Live", and it was the worst for him.
In "We Solved It," celebrities from the NBC and NBCUniversal families, including Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson, talked about how the TV diversity problem is solved with the most diverse list of Emmys candidates. It was a song to a joke that was not funny and wasted the wealth of talent, from Sterling K. Brown and RuPaul Charles to Ricky Martin and John Legend, used to sing lame punchlines, including : "There was none, now there is one. So now we're done. "Finding it?" The fact that the melody of the song was awful was only highlighted when musicians like Martin and Legend tackled it.
More: Emmys 2018: the list of winners
Best: Horsin & # 39; around
Borstein had one of the best emotional speeches of the evening, but my absolute favorite was Jeff Daniels, who won his second Emmy career for the best supporting actor for "Godless" from Netflix. His riff of learning to ride for the western mini-series – and how his horse compared him to Jeff Bridges in "True Grit" – was really hilarious and thorny. And yes, professional comedians should take notes from him.
Jeff Daniels accepts the award for support to the actor in a limited series or film for his role in "Godless" on Netflix. (Photo: ROBERT HANASHIRO, USA TODAY & # 39; HUI)
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Worse: The hosts with the least
"Weekend Update" greets Colin Jost and Michael Che's opening monologue was about as unstable and uneven as their "SNL" jokes.
The pair, usually seen behind their anchor desks, seemed a bit unsure of what to do standing up. They had some good beards, some directed against the increasingly smaller Emmy audience and the broadcast leader, NBC, whom Che described as "the sexiest person in life". (Although they've never been as funny as a moment when Chrissy Teigen, an audience member, tried to hide from the camera during a reaction. Their pieces for the rest of the series were also dull.
Colin Jost and Michael Che deliver the opening monologue at the 70th Emmy Awards. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY NETWORK)
Not great: the first surprise
After an adorable introduction of RuPaul Charles and Leslie Jones, Regina King won the Actress Award in a limited series or TV movie for Netflix's "Seven Seconds", and for once, it was easy to believe that the winner was really shocked. Laura Dern was expected to win this category for "The Tale", and although King is an outstanding actress, "Seven Seconds" was a disappointing series. Dern really deserved it.
The worst: the second surprise
Sorry, but I was not a fan of the wedding proposal of Glenn Weiss, who won for directing the broadcast of the Oscars, to his girlfriend during his acceptance speech. It was cute and everything, but the public proposals are terrible (we all know it) and, as the director of a series of awards, Weiss is aware of the time issues. It was a coup de force.
Glenn Weiss offers to his girlfriend after accepting the award for outstanding staging for a special variety at the 70th Emmy Awards. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY NETWORK)
Best: "Well done"
Emmys producers made a fantastic call by booking Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby to present a prize after breaking records with this year's special Netflix stand-up. Gadsby's offbeat humor – "#NotAllMen but many of them!" It was a joke Nobody knows what jokes are, especially not men, am I right, guys? – makes a price where the winner did not even present one of the best of the evening.
More: Jessica Biel, Kristen Bell and other better-dressed stars have stunned at Emmys 2018
The worst: Emmy "experts"
Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen are dynamic comedians with chemistry that you can not reproduce. So why did they get a repetitive and unpleasant element in which they claimed to know the story of Emmys?
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