My go to caption for all photos of impossibly lovely groups of fierce women is "You can't sit with us!". But that wouldn't be appropriate here because look how warm and inviting this photo of Marcia Clark, Sarah Paulson and Angela Bassett is after the Emmys!
A day after the Emmys what's your biggest takeaway and favorite win? Besides Paulson I mean who really had it coming. In the good way. My very favorite speech was by Alan Yang who won for co-writing the "Parents" episode of Master of None.
There’s 17 million Asian Americans in this country and there’s 17 million Italian Americans. They have The Godfather, Goodfellas, Rocky, The Sopranos. We got Long Duk Dong.”
Mostly because it was so heartfelt and succinct in its perfect jab at showbiz practices. And also because we agree with him having long been on record as saying that Asian Americans have it the worst in showbiz for inexplicable reasons and yet the "diversity" topic is nearly always reduced to ratios of Black Actors to White Actors which is a gross oversimplification and an exclusionary take on the problem.
This year in addition to racially diverse winners we had a few LGBT winners too (McKinnon, Soloway, Paulson, RuPaul) and Jimmy Kimmel did a surprisingly good hosting job, so it was a fun Emmy year.
Transparent won the same two awards again (Actor / Director)
Topple the Patriarchy!
-Jill Soloway
Slate suggests that this year's Emmy wins are a sign that the new voting system is working -- I'd agree but for the large caveat that I wish the nominations were determined differently. There is so much quality television on the air from so many odd places that I think they'd do well to have multiple committees during the nomination process -- so that the nominee lists aren't the same every year as they shouldn't be since few to no shows are the exact same quality with the exact same MVPs from year to year. I'd also argue that the Guest Acting categories are in desperate need of exclusivity in terms of nominators. Think about it. It's the most populated category since literally every television show has multiple guests each season some that weren't there the season before or won't be there the season after. If any category needed an exclusive committee to watch clips from hundreds of shows and actually vote on merit rather than name awareness, those awards might mean something for a change. Right now they basically mean 'I'm Famous and I Happened to be on a Hit Show Briefly.'
Have any leftover thoughts you'd like to share?