The SAG Awards on Netflix — Rife With Sound Issues — Fell Short of the Globes

variety.com:

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Netflix’s big award-show outing needs another year to work things out, perhaps. There were tremendous moments in the Screen Actors Guild Awards broadcast — for instance, Jane Fonda’s lengthy and complex acceptance speech for her lifetime achievement award.

But every such moment seemed oddly abbreviated or complicated. Fonda was interrupted, randomly, by an announcer’s voice ushering her off mid-sentence, before she went on to urge fellow attendees to act as if they were in a documentary about historical prejudice, because, as the Trump administration disassembles the federal government, she said, “this is our documentary moment.” Especially in its early going, the ceremony felt glitchy and ad-hoc, a sad thing for one of the three major televised awards broadcasts — and the one that, this year, falls a week before the Oscars.

Host Kristen Bell threw back to various moments in her career — singing a “Frozen” tune in the monologue to shout out actors’ beginnings; playing at being the voice of “Gossip Girl” during the ceremony — in a manner that felt more in service of the cause of Kristen Bell Awareness than of the ceremony.

And relatively deep into the ceremony, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher reminded us how far past the 2023 strikes we’ve come by speaking not as the inspirational figure she once was but as an… influencer? (In acknowledging the impact of the Los Angeles fires, Drescher, a tremendous advocate for the actors’ cause, encouraged the crowd to read the work of Eckhart Tolle.) With that said!