Our writers watched the 72nd Emmy Awards on Sunday and weighed in on the audience-less and remote ceremony, the winners and their favorite (and least favorite) moments of the show.
Our writers watched the 72nd Emmy Awards on Sunday and weighed in on the audience-less and remote ceremony, the winners and their favorite (and least favorite) moments of the show.
Emmys 2020: Highlights and Analysis
Sep 20, 2020
Emmys 2020: Highlights and Analysis
Our writers watched the 72nd Emmy Awards on Sunday and weighed in on the audience-less and remote ceremony, the winners and their favorite (and least favorite) moments of the show.
Dave Itzkoff
Reporter
Ranked choice Emmy voting in 2021.
Winner
Ghost
Julia Garner wins best supporting actress in a drama series for “Ozark.”
Dave Itzkoff
Reporter
What it must feel like to defeat Meryl Streep!
James Poniewozik
TV Critic
I am just going to consider that a win for Julia Garner in “The Americans.”
Dave Itzkoff
Reporter
Are we predicting a final win for “Succession” before we go back to our respective quarantines?
Margaret Lyons
TV Critic
I predict one more for “Schitt’s Creek.”
James Poniewozik
TV Critic
Yes, but with less confidence than I felt before the Garner and Crudup wins.
Winner
Ghost
“Succession” wins best drama series.
Dave Itzkoff
Reporter
There is literally a phone ringing in Jesse Armstrong’s acceptance speech and that made this whole weird experiment worthwhile.
James Poniewozik
TV Critic
TV professionals always have to be ready to take calls!
Margaret Lyons
TV Critic
Sarah Snook’s fake Emmy is also great.
Dave Itzkoff
Reporter
He gives an “un-thank-you” to the coronavirus “for keeping us all apart this year,” and to President Trump “for his crummy and uncoordinated response,” and to Prime Minister Boris Johnson “for doing the same in my country.”
James Poniewozik
TV Critic
So the big winners tonight are: a drama about America’s history of racism and police violence, a drama about a world run by amoral robber barons… and “Schitt’s Creek”!
Dave Itzkoff
Reporter
It could’ve been better and it could’ve been worse. I say that after every awards show, though.
James Poniewozik
TV Critic
I guess my final takeaway: a weird broadcast resulting from an unpredictable year produces (mostly) predictable results.
Margaret Lyons
TV Critic
I did not find all these results to be predictable! At all!
James Poniewozik
TV Critic
“Schitt’s,” “Watchmen” and “Succession” winning the big awards? We must be reading different handicappers, Margaret.
Margaret Lyons
TV Critic
Who had “Schitt's” sweep? Maria Schrader? Zendaya?
Margaret Lyons
TV Critic
Maybe they did! I didn’t.
Dave Itzkoff
Reporter
I’m going to bed believing that Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow all still live together. Nobody tell me otherwise.