Posted on 09/23/2017 12:49:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
The latest telecast of the Emmy awards on CBS drew the lowest audience ever, 11.4 million, and that is no surprise. This show could not have been more predictable -- quickly devolving into a boorish hours-long festival of Trump-bashing and Hillary-mourning.
Awards shows used to be blockbusters for TV. But in the Age of Trump, they’re becoming screaming political spectacles, like the infamous Paul Wellstone funeral/pep rally of 2002. The red-state audience knows it’s going to be a leftist hootenanny attacking conservatives, all night long. Why put up with it? So they don’t bother.
Naturally, the Hollywood crowd gave out Emmy awards like candy to Saturday Night Live for their sneering satire of Trump’s presidential campaign, and Kate McKinnon thanked Hillary Clinton for her alleged “grace and grit.”
Jane Fonda recalled her film 9 to 5, saying “Back in 1980, in that movie, we refused to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.” Her co-star Lily Tomlin picked up the attack: “And in 2017, we still refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.”
Got it.
Picking up the Emmy for Best Comedy Series Actor, Donald Glover of the FX show Atlanta announced: “I want to thank Trump for making black people Number One on the Most Oppressed List. He’s the reason I’m probably up here.”
Emmy host Stephen Colbert even compared Trump to Walter White, the murderous drug kingpin at the center of Breaking Bad. He joked “I thought you people loved morally compromised antiheroes. You like Walter White. He’s just Walter Much Whiter.”
Hilarious.
There’s another obvious reason awards shows have been slipping: Who’s nominated, and who wins. Much like the Oscars, the Emmy voters lurch toward excess, the egregiously sexy and violent and progressive/“transgressive” products. Popular shows are often rejected. Because well, they’re popular, which must mean they’re not “smart” enough, or they’re just too formulaic and predictable.
Shows on the actual Big Four networks get slighted for cable networks and now streaming services. Here are the top Emmy winners by network in 2017: 29 wins for HBO, 20 for Netflix, 15 for NBC, and 10 for Hulu. By contrast, ABC won seven. Subtract NBC’s nine awards for “Saturday Night Live” and they won only six. CBS had four.
The Emmy for Best Drama hasn’t gone to a broadcast network since 2006, but in that span they gave four to Mad Men (AMC), two to Breaking Bad (AMC), and two to Game of Thrones (HBO). A top-rated show like CBS’s NCIS doesn’t get nominated for Emmys....unless you count “Outstanding Stunt Coordination.” But Logo’s drag-queen show RuPaul’s Drag Race won three Emmys in 2017.
There’s also little suspense when the same liberal favorites win Emmys over and over. Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her sixth Emmy in a row for HBO’s Veep. Yawn. It doesn’t matter that the ratings are tiny. Jon Stewart’s Daily Show won for ten years in a row. Why tune in for that? And why don’t the over-rewarded liberals have the decency to let someone else get an award? Why don’t they redistribute Emmys?
Hollywood loves to be ahead of the people, “educating” them along the path to progress. But they get remarkably upset when the people refuse to follow them. The people are supposed to bend their minds agreeably as the entertainment elite sculpts the “arc of justice.” A few swift kicks at the morons from the eminentoes on the Emmy stage are expected to work their magic.
They actually don’t give a rat’s A about Trump. They hate us, the people that elected him.
In a different time would these people be called Court Jesters and sluts?
Not the funniest line in the pieces, but the most observant: Hollywood doesn't like to share their awards. They just keeping passing them around to one another in the same ideological pool of liberals.
Imagine all the clever and intelligent indie and underfunded shows that were likely worlds better than the well known dreck.
I like President Trump. I voted for Trump.
Trump has and is doing a tremendous job in the affairs of the USA.
I have nothing to do with Hollywood, and I don’t really care what happens to them. I’ll never again go to a Movie, watch and awards show, or read about their little twit lives.....
Frankly, Hollywood,...... I don’t give a Da-n!
Who cares about that bunch of no talent dumb losers, each of whom probably has a tub of Bondo smeared on his/her face to hide the ugly... Incessantly giving each other awards, lol! Nobody cares. Nobody. 11 million, my eye.
Yawn....who cares what a bunch of liberals say...they are so tolerant of everything UNLESS you have a different opinion from theirs....let them wither and die while they pat each other on the back....
Jon Stewart’s Daily Show won for ten years in a row. Why tune in for that? And why don’t the over-rewarded liberals have the decency to let someone else get an award? Why don’t they redistribute Emmys?
Gotcha all beat. I recognised what that dreck and leftist pap was in the early to mid-eighties and quit watching it then. Actually recognised it, and snl, for what it was in the seventies, just quit watching it in the eighties. Haven’t been to the movies in this century. What a bunch of Jerks and lost souls. It’s somewhat difficult to conceive that that adults can be so immature.
SNL did the same anti-trump shtick week after week. It was boring and redundant after the second time. Of course Hollywood was all over them for it. Why spicer was there is beyond me. They probably destroyed him as press secretary. I would vote for the woman who did Hillary before i would ever vote for Hillary. Sat least she’s funny not tragic.
Picking up the Emmy for Best Comedy Series Actor, Donald Glover of the FX show Atlanta announced: “I want to thank Trump for making black people Number One on the Most Oppressed List. He’s the reason I’m probably up here.”
“He’s the reason I’m probably up here.”
That sentence is pathetic.
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