For a yearly awards ceremony, the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards were exciting in all the wrong ways. By the end of the first hour, the source of its drama had switched from wondering what the academy might have done right to predicting what would go wrong next. (In a nutshell: diversity, diversity, diversity.)
The night’s B-plot — the race to see whether HBO would keep its title as the nation’s leader in prestige television — was slightly less exhausting, although it was just as anticlimactic. During this year’s Primetime Emmys telecast, Netflix bested HBO, taking home seven statuettes to HBO’s six. Including the unaired categories, the studios tied for 23 Emmys in total. Amazon and FX tied for second in the broadcast with five wins each,…
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