Bad Style Emilia Clarke: Emmy Worst Dressed (Duana) I don’t dislike Emilia Clarke, and I like the Khaleesi, but I do find her totally unremarkable sometimes – especially when she doesn’t have her trademark white-blonde hair. Very pretty, but not very memorable, maybe. This is possibly patently unfair, and I once read a print interview where she By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 03:43 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Aziz Ansari & Alan Yang: Emmy Win FTW Everything about this win made me so happy. The fact that they won at all, which we’ll come back to. The fact that when they gave their acceptance speeches, Ansari took second place, letting the much less famous, and much less likely to get a platform from day to By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 03:27 pm
Maple Leaf Tatiana Maslany: Best Emmy Longshot So? Now that the Best Actress in a Drama award has gone to Tatiana Maslany for playing ALL – or, okay, most – of the characters in Orphan Black, are you more inclined to try it? This is an award where previous winners include, you know, Viola Davis, Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 03:12 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell: Emmy Scandalous Snub You know, it’s not even about explaining how much of a loss it was that The Americans – who are, in name, Rhys and Russell – got so snubbed last night. Remember Coach and Mrs. Coach? Remember that marriage, and how hot-but-real it felt? Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings are much hotter, By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 02:11 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Jill Soloway & Jeffrey Tambor: Emmy Mission Statement What did you think of Kimmel giving the statuette to Jeffrey Tambor right off the top? Was it funny, or did it rob the eventual win of its…you know, moment-ness? To me, it implied the win was a given, and I think that was more true inside the room By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 01:46 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Sterling K. Brown: Emmy Win Ascendancy If you watched American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson, you thought to yourself, of the actual Christopher Darden, “Man, I don’t remember a lot about that guy at all”, and then the real guy faded into the performer and it became “I really wish he would kiss By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 01:02 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Tracee Ellis Ross: Best Emmys Attendee If you took yearbook-style snapshots of the night last night, Tracee Ellis Ross would be in the middle of all of them having a blast, like the most popular girl at school. She’s having a great time at this thing, her Ralph Lauren dress looks great and – and this By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 12:33 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Mandy Moore’s Emmy Comeback Of course it’s a comeback. Mandy Moore was not on anybody’s mind, even though she was working a lot. I clicked by John Krasinski on TV the other day, and it turned out to be some horrible horrible movie where he was trying to marry Mandy Moore, and By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 12:06 pm
Emmy Awards 2016 Laverne Cox: Most Empathetic Emmys Presenter You know what a premium we put on awkward these days? Coltish, beautiful young people who have never looked or been awkward in their lives love to use the word as a catch-all that’s supposed to mean ‘I’m a little more interesting than the average person.’ But awkward By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 11:42 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Kate McKinnon: Best Emmy Win This woman really, really did not expect to win. Those are always the most fun to begin with (and it was really the night to be a long-shot to win wearing a red column, huh?), but when you add that the person who surprise-wins is incredibly talented, it makes things By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 11:20 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Stranger Things at the Emmy Awards Is there nothing they can’t do? Honestly, this is the kind of thing I usually hate—kids being brought into an adult situation to capitalize on being cute. You can see them, eyes whirling in their heads, trying to figure out how to get everyone to laugh and smile By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 10:50 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Cuba Gooding Jr: Best Emmys Sacrifice I’m pretty shocked at the number of people who didn’t see American Crime Story about OJ, although to their credit, a lot of people conflated it with either American Horror Story, American Crime, or the OJ documentary. Far be it from me to tell Ryan Murphy what to By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 10:30 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Maisie Williams & Sophie Turner: Carefree at the Emmys If you’ve never watched an episode of Game of Thrones, you still have to appreciate the cuteness of these two. They’ve grown up together in the spotlight of this ridiculous behemoth of a show, and despite the fact that, as far as I can tell, they haven’t By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 10:07 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Viola Davis: Emmy Dress Sixth Sense I don’t love this dress on Viola Davis, but I’m always grading on a curve for people who wear colour. Still, this one feels a lot more prom-y than some of the showstoppers she’s worn before. So did she choose this because she knew it wasn’t By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 08:54 am
Emmy Awards 2016 John Mayer: Emmys Inexplicable Musician Do we know why…? I read an article that was like “Here’s why John Mayer was at the Emmys…he was part of the house band!” Yeah, thanks. But whyyyyy was he in the house band? Did he write the music? Did he just want a semi-anonymous gig to, By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 08:08 am
Emmy Awards 2016 Anna Chlumsky: Emmys Most Fascinatingly Dressed I am not mad at it. (Lainey: me neither.) If you are, let’s take a second. What are you mad at, exactly? Here’s what I love about this amazingly ballsy dress: it’s not trying to be something else. It’s not like “Oh, but no, I am By Duana • Sep 19, 2016 07:35 am
