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Emmys Put the Focus on Black Lives, But Also Go Overboard for ‘Schitt’s Creek’

An odd mix of ingredients went into Sunday night’s 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, but three of the ones that had the biggest impact on the show were the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The pandemic obviously forced the Television Academy to go virtual with the three-hour telecast, which had to go on with social distancing and no live audience and winners accepting from homes around the world. And to be honest, it kind of looked like a mess — an attempt to create a new kind of show that tried really hard but showed the strain every inch of the way. And all the frantic comedy and flailing that poor host Jimmy Kimmel was forced to do got in the way of the heart of the show, which took a cue from the record number of Black performing nominees and consistently returned to speeches and film clips that emphasized the power of voices that are often underrepresented on television. Also Read: Emmy Winners by the Numbers: HBO Is Leading Network, 'Watchmen' Tops Series From a clip with Issa Rae, to an impassioned speech by presenter Anthony Anderson, to the presentation of the Governors Award to...

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