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This year’s Emmys turned out to be one of the best in recent memory, with the awards telecast being both dynamic and full of suspense due to worthy new series, especially in the comedy categories. However, academy voters showed preference over old cable favourites rather than farewell seasons, newbies or permanent nominees.
I can’t verbalise the pure joy I felt during Jimmy Fallon’s opening skit when I heard the starting bars of Bruce Springsteen’s 'Born to Run', one of my favourite tracks of all time, playing out. Those first few minutes of the show turned out to consist of pure win, with five Glee stars, Tina Fey, Lost’s Jorge Garcia, Betty White, Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and numerous other familiar faces (Randy Jackson played the bass, yo!) staging a perfectly choreographed (yet comical) routine to kick the Emmys off with a bang. In fact, just watch it now. It’ll fill your day with sunshine.
Fallon kept up the musical theme, Glee-style, introducing the different award categories of the night armed with his acoustic guitar and celebrity audience members contributing guest vocals. Glee itself walked away with two statues; one for directing, the other for Jane Lynch’s turn as calculating coach Sue Sylvester, an award that felt much deserved after her snub at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Her hyperactive acceptance speech made it all the more adorable.
It turned out to be a fantastic night for a favourite of mine, Modern Family, which nabbed Emmys for writing, acting (Eric Stonestreet as the delightfully camp Cam Tucker) and the golden goose for Outstanding Comedy Series. The race was always going to be between it and Glee, and though I love the musical comedy more than I should admit, there is no doubt that MF’s consistency deserved recognition. It easily possesses the best winning combo of ensemble cast and writing team since Friends. The cast also had one of the best bits of the night with a skit that generated countless laughs from the audience and, undoubtedly, viewers at home too.
The Amazing Race finally had its seven-year-run broken for the Outstanding Reality Competition award by Top Chef, the US version of Masterchef. The other unexpected award was Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama, with Julianna Margulies just missing out on winning a Golden Globe/SAG/Emmy triad over The Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick. It wasn’t all tears for the crew of The Good Wife though, as Archie Panjabi walked away with the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama award for her role as the intriguing Kalinda, a character who’s a fan favourite too.
Other than that, the drama awards turned out to be somewhat disappointing. The fact that Lost missed out for its final season I found enraging, especially since ‘The End’ was the show’s writing at its most heart-wrenching, and Matthew Fox delivered his best acting chops ever. I can almost forgive Terry O’Quinn being snubbed (he’s won before) but the dude did essentially play two characters at once. I guess the academy just couldn’t get past the unsolved mysteries, huh?
Unbroken patterns were the villains of the night; Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston earned his third lead actor Emmy, while Mad Men earned its third Outstanding Drama Series Emmy. Wouldn’t it have been sweeter to see Dexter’s Michael C. Hall win it after his third nomination, or the series itself likewise? Or give Matthew Fox his first Emmy for six years of work on a cult series, which itself deserved to book-end its first and last season with Emmy wins? Or even poor Hugh Laurie who endured his fifth nomination, still no win?
Alas, the results were never going to be perfect. But the awards show itself flowed with such ease, great guest presenters, and was the ideal way to psych us up for the upcoming 2010-11 TV season!
For a full list of winners and nominees, go to www.emmys.com/nominations
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