tvthatdoesntsuck

Three hours of my life.  Gone.  Forever.

 30 Rock–or, as I call it, Scripted SNL–took home a lot of awards, most of them which belonged to other shows.  Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Tina Fey, but over The Office?  Over Pushing Daisies?  I don’t care what the category.  Be it acting, writing, or direction, you just don’t do that.

Also, I love how they dragged out the Worst Emmy Hosts of All Time (otherwise known as Outstanding Host for a Reality Show or Reality Competition), taking time away from pretty much everything.  Keifer Sutherland was extremely classy in his efforts to give time to the actual award winners, though even Jack Bauer’s best try couldn’t make the Emmys actually devote time to the award the viewers at home actually cared about.  Thousands of people voted in the Most Dramatic TV Moment of All Time, and the award–due to time–wasn’t even shown.  They didn’t even give one of those “Ooooh, look, they won!” blip.  Instead, a bunch of Waitwhothef–kisthats can have crazy long monologues that take away from the actual meat of the show.

I was glad to see Recount get a lot of love, but the thing that actually made me realize that 10% of the people behind the Emmys aren’t Satan was the fact that Mad Men really cleaned up as well.  Matthew Weiner, Mad Men’s showrunner, was extremely gracious…. and it never hurts to see Christina Hendricks all dolled up.  Pushing Daisies also got some nice attention.  And really, who can hate on the homages to TV history?

But other than a few sprinklings of good here and there, it was a waste of an evening.  I hope that, next year, they can actually put their heads together and give us a ceremony that lives up to the name Emmy Awards.

NEXT TIME:
Review of the season premiere of SUPERNATURAL

TO COME:
Review of EPISODE THREE of TRUE BLOOD
Review of the season premiere of HEROES (tomorrow night, don’t miss it!)
Review of SEASON THREE of Supernatural (DVD)

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