Every four years at the Winter Olympics, everybody pretends that they're experts in figure skating, befouling Twitter with gripes that a skater who did a clean routine (usually an American, if we're being honest) lost to somebody who fell down twice — ignoring that said skater (usually a Russian) did like 17 quadruple jumps or something.
It's all you can do to not scream, "It's called degree-of-difficulty, folks!" I'm not going to pretend that Sunday (September 20) night's 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards didn't slip up a few times.
There were comic bits that didn't work, social justice bits that felt slightly rushed (and, as a result, perhaps a little shoehorned-in, when they could have been the spine of the telecast).
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