Month: September 2019

Emmy Awards 2019: Great Winners, Embarrassingly Bad Show

Is television actually… bad? ` As a telecast meant to represent the finest the medium has to offer, Sunday night’s Emmy Awards could not have failed harder. It was almost shocking, really, the extreme dissonance between the quality of the shows, creatives, and performers rewarded—Fleabag! Billy Porter! Jodie Comer!—and the award show that was produced to celebrate them. No wonder people seemed to have stopped…