Emmy Awards 2020 Intro for September 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, After Zendaya won the Emmy for Lead Drama Actress at the Emmys the other night, I called it an “upset” yesterday, because it was her first nomination in a stacked category that included SAG winner Jennifer Aniston, Oscar and multiple other awards winner Olivia Colman, last year’s By Lainey • Sep 22, 2020 08:53 am
Style Zendaya at the Emmys: Two Looks and an Upset! In all of my posts about Zendaya since she was nominated for her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama a couple of months ago, I wrote about her coming into this with nothing to lose – because she was not the favourite. She was such a longshot I By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 01:31 pm
Emmy Awards 2020 Jennifer Aniston’s Loss Is Still Everyone’s Win If there’s one thing Jennifer Aniston is gonna do it’s wear a boring black dress. #Emmys — Kathleen Newman-Bremang (@KathleenNB) September 21, 2020 You know when someone makes a joke and you’re mad you didn’t think of it first? Yeah ^^. I mean, was there really any doubt? By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 01:08 pm
Relationship Assumption Cynthia introduces Lena Social media has a short memory and a long memory. And that contradiction showed up last night when Cynthia Erivo introduced an edit featuring Lena Waithe. Last year at this time, Lena was about to or had just married her now ex-wife Alana Mayo; she confirmed the news in November By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 12:31 pm
Emmy Awards 2020 Uzo Aduba reps for Mrs. America When did you find out that ‘earnest’ is a bad word? Or – do you think it’s a bad word? I always thought it was good, like earnest is honest in a way that means, you know, transparent. I was fully in my 20s before I heard it derided. A By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 12:09 pm
Emmy Awards 2020 Succession’s Non-Sweep: Worst Best Emmy’s Acceptance Speech First things first – if we’re going to talk about Succession, you have to know what I have in my head at all times while it’s on, from the moment the first chord plays on the piano: ‘A kiss from Dad-dy-y’. It KILLS me. Because it’s so petty. By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 11:25 am
Style Sandra Oh’s Emmy Bomber Sandra Oh is the most-nominated East Asian performer in Emmys history; she has never won an Emmy. Zendaya was the winner in the Lead Drama Actress category this year (more on Zendaya later) and, well, it’s hard to be mad about that and I can’t pretend to be. By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 10:49 am
Music Emmys In Memoriam: H.E.R I saw a few tweets last night criticizing the In Memoriam segment, specifically the arrangement (which seemed insane, because it was stunning) or the editing, but I have to ask, exactly who is watching this segment and thinking ‘this doesn’t really meet my standards on an aesthetic level’? I By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 09:46 am
TV Updates Regina King and the Kingdom of Watchmen I’ve rewritten this sentence about nine times. What I want to say is “Watchmen deserved every Emmy it got and more” but that seems to discount the incredible Unbelievable and Unorthodox and others, and look – we just need to accept the fact that there’s too much that’s By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 08:47 am
Gorgessity Tracee Ellis Ross: Best Emmys Red Carpet There wasn’t really an official red carpet at the Emmys. And you know, for all the moaning about the whole red carpet tediousness that we’ve heard from celebrities in the past, they probably missed it more than we do now that it’s not an available source of By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 08:03 am
Emmy Awards 2020 Gabrielle Union-Wade: Best Emmys Spot From Home It’s beyond debate that the people at home had a better time than the people who were in studio, right? Once you’re there, even if you have a gag to do (more on those later) it’s basically business as usual. But the people at home really seemed By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 07:53 am
Emmy Awards 2020 Insecure and The Good Place Were Also Nominated At the time I’m writing this, I don’t know whether Lainey has written what we both agreed on when we debriefed after the show – even though it was pretty good as a broadcast, we just felt… you know, aware of our pandemic selves. It was a great show, By Duana • Sep 21, 2020 07:27 am
Emmy Awards 2020 Jimmy Kimmel Hosts the PandEMMYs The PandEMMYs is what Jimmy Kimmel called it during his opening monologue – and that was much of the intrigue: how would they pull off a truly live award show? The bit off the top, cutting to past footage of people in the theatre, went on a bit too long, non? By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 06:57 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, It wasn’t a question of whether or not Schitt’s Creek would win any Emmys, it was always how many. Because leading up to last night, there was no denying the momentum. The series was at the top of every expert predictions list and by the halfway By Lainey • Sep 21, 2020 06:21 am
