Emmys

So, you now officially have no excuse not to watch the brilliant and biting Fleabag.

If anyone on the planet is having a better year than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, I want to meet them. She just won best actress, best writer, and best drama (she is the creator and show runner). Oh, and she wrote the screenplay for Bond 25 which is being filmed right now. So, ummm, yeah 2019 has been good to her.

Jason “Waller-Bridge also writes and runs Killing Eve and she is doing an HBO series called Run... she may be the busiest and most talented writer/EP in TV today” Evans

The elites have such brazen disdain for us. They know we hated Game of Thrones Season 8, so of course GoT gets an Emmy for being the best show. Lol.

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So, you now officially have no excuse not to watch the brilliant and biting Fleabag.

If anyone on the planet is having a better year than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, I want to meet them. She just won best actress, best writer, and best drama (she is the creator and show runner). Oh, and she wrote the screenplay for Bond 25 which is being filmed right now. So, ummm, yeah 2019 has been good to her.

Jason “Waller-Bridge also writes and runs Killing Eve and she is doing an HBO series called Run... she may be the busiest and most talented writer/EP in TV today” Evans

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She obliterated the fourth wall in Fleabag. Summer TV is so bad that I went looking for options and thought I would give it a try. After episode one left me with my mouth hanging open because of her stark frankness, I couldn't get enough. It is not for everyone, but for those that enjoy having their boundaries stretched it is genius.

I also enjoy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and was happy to see Tony Shaloub win best supporting actor.

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The elites have such brazen disdain for us. They know we hated Game of Thrones Season 8, so of course GoT gets an Emmy for being the best show. Lol.

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I'm confused, they never filmed season 8!!!? They stopped at Season 7. One die-hard fan has continued on with take on what a season 8 should look like if they ever decided to make it. She's almost done with Episode 10, but hasn't posted an update since July. I hope the lawyers haven't gotten to her!

https://www.aliceshipwise.com/gameof...lty_part1.html

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She obliterated the fourth wall in Fleabag. Summer TV is so bad that I went looking for options and thought I would give it a try. After episode one left me with my mouth hanging open because of her stark frankness, I couldn't get enough. It is not for everyone, but for those that enjoy having their boundaries stretched it is genius.

I also enjoy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and was happy to see Tony Shaloub win best supporting actor.

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Just read that Alex Borstein won best supporting actress in a comedy as well for Maisel while I was watching football.

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Just read that Alex Borstein won best supporting actress in a comedy as well for Maisel while I was watching football.

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Best acceptance speech of the night as she told the story of her Grandmother escaping the death camps of the Holocaust.

I'm so glad that Bill Hader and Barry got the recognition it deserves. Cannot wait for season 3 and what happens with Cousineau.

I was pulling for Duke grad Jared Harris. He didn't win in the individual category but Chernobyl did win Best Limited Series. Can't say I disagree with the results (in either category), but I was still pulling for Jared.

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So, you now officially have no excuse not to watch the brilliant and biting Fleabag.

If anyone on the planet is having a better year than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, I want to meet them.

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I'm sure she's great, but the Emmys are a verrry very long way from dictating what I do/don't have excuses to watch/not watch. I read the ratings for it were shockingly low, even for these new media environment days.

I do still pay a vague amount of attention to the Oscars, in that I go to my same friend's house every year for the telecast. But that's because I love her, not because I love the Oscars. A couple years ago I told my students I was going to an Oscars watch party, and they looked at me like I'd said I was riding my penny-farthing to a county fair.

BWAHAHAHA, The Emmys messed up and aired a picture of Leonard Slatkin--not merely alive but still conducting concerts--when including Andre Previn in their In Memoriam.

So Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Slatkin.

I know Slatkin isn't orignally from Saint Louis, but he's more associated with this orchestra than any other, and has been at least guest conducting it for fifty years. So this article has an amusing StL-Dangerfield angle to it as well.