Emmy winners include 'Mildred Pierce,' 'Modern Family'
The Good: If you really have to ask what we鈥檙e going to kick off our 鈥済ood鈥� with when it comes to last night鈥檚 63rd Annual EMMY Awards you clearly have yet to jump on the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS bandwagon. So, before we continue we鈥檙e going to need you to immediately put a stop to whatever you鈥檙e doing and watch all five seasons of the now award-winning NBC/DirecTV drama so that you may properly appreciate the awesomeness of what we鈥檙e about to say. Living up to their 鈥淐lear eyes, full hearts, can鈥檛 lose鈥� mantra was the heart and soul of Texas, nominees Kyle Chandler and creator Jason Katims, both of whom walked away with much-deserved statues for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama and Outstanding Writing, respectively. Continuing along the lines of deserving, albeit unexpected winners was Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama winner Margo Martindale for her fantastically received work on JUSTIFIED and the somewhat less surprising, albeit equally welcoming wins for MODERN FAMILY鈥檚 Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress in a Comedy duo that was the husband and wife team of Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy) and Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy). That latter of whom gave what turned out to be one of the evening鈥檚 most moving acceptances speeches that saw him imaginging what his dearly departed Dad might have thought about him making a living by playing dress up and wearing makeup!
Also falling under the category of 鈥済ood鈥� was the hilarious beauty-pageant-esque manner that brought all six Outstanding Actress in a Comedy nominees on stage (Women of Comedy FTW!), the highly entertaining spoof featuring the newest arrivals to THE OFFICE (Including MAD MEN鈥檚 John Slattery, PARKS AND RECREATION鈥檚 Aziz Ansari and TWO AND A HALF MEN鈥檚 Ashton Kutcher) and if you鈥檒l forgive us for dwelling on MODERN FAMILY again, co-creator Steve Levitan. Who not only took it upon himself to publicly embarrass his wife by revealing the inspiration for his Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Winning episode that saw his real-life kids walk in on him and his wife doing you know what, but for turning his Outstanding Comedy Series acceptance speech into a shout out to the show鈥檚 younger cast members who will probably never get the award recognition they so rightfully deserve. Said Levitan, 鈥淚 especially want to point out all of the kids on the cast, MODERN FAMILY was this close to being animated. That鈥檚 how much we didn鈥檛 want to work with kids.鈥�
The Bad: From Jane Lynch鈥檚 underwhelming opening number (Not-So-Fun-Fact: Leonard Nimoy was a last minute replacement for Alec Baldwin due to a censorship issue with Fox over a hacking scandal joke) to comedic bits that fell either fell flast (JERSEY Snoore!) or for some reason or other seemed to focus on the fact that she鈥檚 gay (Note to Hollywood: You鈥檙e here, you鈥檙e queer, we鈥檙e really okay with it!) Jane Lynch鈥檚 tour of [EMMY Hosting] duty did little but reconfirm what two seasons of GLEE has already illustrated, she is most effective in small doses.
On the hardware front, while it鈥檚 hard to argue with the likes of MAD MEN, THE AMAZING RACE and MODERN FAMILY walking away with golden-statues for their four, ninth and second consecutive wins respectively, it really would be nice if the Academy of Television Arts & Science spread the love around a wee bit (Paging PARKS AND RECREATION line one). But since that is pretty much out of our control, we鈥檒l simply end this section of our EMMY rant by asking if MIKE & MOLLY鈥檚 Melissa McCarthy would have really won had she not made us fall out of our seat laughing for her role in this summer鈥檚 surprise smash that was Bridesmaids? Probably not.
The Ugly: As much as Hollywood loves a good comeback story, Charlie Sheen鈥檚 completely insincere image rehabilitation tour should in no way have been given center stage during last night鈥檚 celebration of television鈥檚 best and brightest. Suffice it to say, six months after the half-man-full-warlock almost cost hundreds of hard-working people both in front and behind the camera of TWO AND A HALF MEN their jobs and livelihood is far too brief a time to simply forgive and forget. And while we鈥檙e on the subject on things we wish we could forget, we believe comedian Sarah Silverman said it best when she , 鈥淲hoever鈥檚 writing the voice over guy鈥檚 banter should not do that anymore.鈥�
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