Even though the televised award show is a dying institution, one slowly chipped away at with every passing year, the 2021 Emmys still somehow achieved the impossible: the worst acceptance speech in history.
The full list of Emmys winners can be found here, along with the night’s biggest snubs and surprises here.
Scott Frank’s win for directing the Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit encapsulated everything wrong with these things.
The dominance, in particular, of Mare of Easttown and The Crown was hardly controversial or undeserved, but spoke to a general malaise in voters’ choices.