Emmys TV Review: Smoothly Executed Reunion-Rich Ceremony Lacks Spark With Few Surprises
deadline.comIt was a tame throwback Sunday at the Emmy Awards tonight with blasts from the past taking center stage in a show seemingly longing for another era.
Besides the unexpected and well deserved Best Comedy win for Hacks, the show was full of predictable trophies for FX’s Shōgun and and Netflix’s Baby Reindeer.
Along with anticipated victories for True Detective: Night Country’s Jodie Foster, The Crown’s Elizabeth Debicki and Hacks’ Jean Smart, Sunday’s nostalgia-heavy, nearly three-hour 76th Primetime Emmy Awards was punctuated by a crowd-pleasing West Wing 25th anniversary reunion, featuring Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff and Dulé Hill.
Even so, there was not much new to be said there on this small screen display of back to the future. “Our political landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years,” stated Moloney, the show’s Donna Moss, “but two things have not changed — the importance of everyone making sure to be registered and to vote,” “and the quality, the quality of the drama series on television,” said Sheen himself in best Bartlet fashion as the nominees for Drama Series were unveiled.
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