We're starting to get set up in the new house... just in time for my snarky friends to come over and watch the Emmy Awards! Here's a sampling of the group's commentary.
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5 minutes into the show, and it looks like Al Pacino is bored already.
I was starting to get tired of the "parade of past Emmy hosts" opening, until Kevin Spacey showed up to give us the House of Cards treatment. Brilliant.
Bryan Cranston looks so normal and nice and not evil with his hair grown back.
Merritt Wever's "I gotta go. Bye." Best acceptance speech ever. (I see she was as surprised to win an award as we were to see her win it.)
Zooey Deschanel took her dress designer to give her the "sci-fi toga" look.
Tony Hale for Veep? The man is funny, and I can't begrudge him the win... but it's starting to look like a night of upset victories this evening.
Robin Williams is looking a bit like Martin Scorcese in the matching white tie. But he delivered a very fitting and deserved tribute to Jonathan Winters.
Jon Hamm decided to go with the Duck Dynasty beard.
Tony Hale stepping up to handle Julia Louis-Dreyfus' bag and whisper in her ear (as he does on the show Veep) shows the kind of funny that just won him an award moments earlier.
The Modern Family theme certainly makes a punchy "get off the stage" warning song.
Jim Parsons trying not to cry seems to be making Kaley Cuoco try not to cry.
Rob Reiner's tribute to Jean Stapleton is strong too. My viewing group definitely approves of this year's new way of doing the memorials.
Elton John's lengthy intro seems to be oblivious to the time constraints of the evening's program.
Arsenio Hall's appearance in the "excessive hosting" segment is as unfunny as I've heard his new show is.
Hmm... I feel like the weakest episode in Best Drama Writing won. But it's hard to overcome the posthumous award momentum.
Glad to see Anna Gunn get her due. Her character on Breaking Bad is often a fan opposite-of-favorite, but she plays it well and believably. (But wait... her girls are named "Emma" and "Ima?" Yikes.)
Neil Patrick Harris performs his own halftime show. (With Dr. Horrible love from Nathan Fillion.)
Stephen Amell is hard to recognize with his shirt on.
If they're going to introduce Diane Carroll with a picture of her from decades ago, shouldn't they be showing Kerry Washington's baby picture?
Does Bobby Cannavale really think the son he just sent to college three weeks ago is actually watching this broadcast in the dorm?
I'm convinced that at this point, they're just picking the winners at random from a hat. Or maybe the strategy to shorten the Emmy broadcast this year is to pick winners who don't have speeches prepared.
Don Cheadle was given the oddest emotional whiplash of a speech ever.
Really, we're going to associate Dean Norris with Under the Dome over Breaking Bad?
Apparently, "Episode 4" of Downtown Abbey was freaking awesome. It keeps popping up in every category.
The writers of The Colbert Report are even more happy to go touch Bob Newhart than to go get their Emmys.
A rare out-of-character moment for Colbert!
The choreography number begins in front of the punch wall from The Price Is Right.
Was Daft Punk's Get Lucky somehow nominated for an Emmy?
Heidi Klum is being strangled by her own blood clot. How did Tim Gunn let her go out there like that? (My friends said she looked like a cenobite from Hellraiser.)
I can't remember The Daily Show ever not winning the Best Variety Series. Yes, this is upset year.
Wow. Somebody worked truly hard to make Anna Faris not look beautiful.
There seems to be an "ugly bridesmaids dresses" theme to this section of the show.
Sarah Paulson seems to be scowling... that James Cromwell didn't mention the American Horror Story cast in his acceptance speech?
And now, the memoriam for people not "big" enough to get an individual tribute. I must say, I'd pick some of them over the ones who did.
Ellen Burstyn thanks the USA network for putting her show (Political Animals) on the air. And I suppose a tacit thanks for cancelling the show after six episodes so that she could enter the Mini-Series category instead of Drama.
Michael Douglas serves up the best innuendo of the night. (One intentional, one not.)
All the wins for Behind the Candelabra seem to be a big middle finger to all the movie studios that passed on the chance to make it first.
The upset momentum is not enough to knock Modern Family off the hill.
Ed O'Neill doesn't seem particularly interested in being on stage accepting his show's award.
Breaking Bad finally gets its due!
All that, and the finally of Dexter over on Showtime. But that's a subject for another time.
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