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From the hosts to the presenters to the winners, our take on the best, the worst, the exciting (and boring) moments of the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Emmys are airing on Monday night, but it seems  more like a Saturday.
The opening musical number was basically a super-sized version of a "Saturday Night Live" musical monologue, and it was the worse for it.
In "We Solved it," celebrities from the NBC and NBCUniversal family, including Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson, sung about how TV's diversity problem is solved, now that the Emmys have their most diverse roster of nominees.  It was a one-joke song that wasn't funny and wasted the wealth of talent, from Sterling K. Brown and RuPaul Charles to Ricky Martin and John Legend, employed to sing lame punchlines including, "There were none, now there's one. So now we're done." Get it? That the song's melody was terrible was only highlighted when musicians like Martin and Legend tackled it.
The hosts with the least
Things continued on a similarly shaky note when "Weekend Update" hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che came out for an opening monologue that was about as uneven as their usual "SNL" banter.
The pair, usually seen behind their anchor desk, seemed a bit unsure what to do standing up, as both awkwardly stood center stage. They got in a few good barbs, some directed at the Emmys'  shrinking audience and broadcast-nominee leader NBC, which Che described as being like "the sexiest person on life support." (Although they were never quite as funny as a moment when audience-member Chrissy Teigen tried to hide from the camera during a reaction shot.)
The broadcast sprinted through the awards, which is good for everyone who wants to go to bed at a reasonable hour, but also a little overwhelming. But seeing long-overdue veterans Alex Borstein  ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") and Henry Winkler ("Barry") finally get their due as winners gave the show some genuine emotional warmth. And the many wins for Amazon's period comedy "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (and especially its quirky co-creator Amy Sherman-Palladino) proved a delightful start to the night.
Borstein had the first great emotional speech of the night, but my absolute favorite so far was Jeff Daniels', who won for best supporting actor for Netlfix's "Godless." Daniels' riff on learning how to ride a horse for the Western miniseries – and how his horse compared him to Jeff Bridges in "True Grit" – was genuinely hilarious and pithy. And yes, the professional comedians should take notes from him.
Right up through Ryan Murphy's win for writing in a limited series, all of the winners were  been white. Corden cracked, "Let's get it trending. #EmmysSoWhite" and the room laughed nervously. Yeah, the opening song was just a little premature.
After an adorable introduction from RuPaul Charles and Leslie Jones, Regina King took home the award for actress in a limited series or TV movie for Netflix's "Seven Seconds," and for once it was easy to believe the winner was truly shocked. Laura Dern was widely expected to win this category for "The Tale," and although King is an outstanding actress, "Seven Seconds" was a disappointing series. Dern really deserved it.
Sorry, but I was not a fan of Glen Weiss, who won for directing the Oscars telecast, proposing to his girlfriend during his acceptance speech. It was sweet and everything, but public proposals are terrible (we all know this), and, as the director of an awards show, Weiss knows about time crunches. That was a power move.
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