Emmys 2022: 5 Ups & 7 Downs
5. The CHAOTIC Show Pacing
Look, awards shows wouldn't be awards shows if they weren't pure slogs in some fashion, but even so, this year's Emmys ceremony was a stamina-draining bore at times - and a frantic sprint at others.
From the egregious excess of cringe-worthy "comedy" skits, to the expectedly outrageous amount of commercials, major portions of the telecast dragged on forever if you were watching live.
Did anyone really need to sit through a tribute to medical procedurals? Those three minutes could've been better spent on, well, basically anything else.
But on the turn of a dime the producers would crank out three significant awards in the span of around 10 minutes, while rushing winners through speeches with disrespectful play-off music, and having their extended thank-yous play out on the screen's lower-third.
The show could've done itself a favour by moving some of the "frothier" categories - like the Variety and Competition Program fields - to the Creative Arts Emmys, because how many people watching a show focused around Prestige Content really care about talk shows and reality TV?
While there's begrudging respect for keeping the show to a strict three hours rather than letting it run off the tracks - looking at you, Oscars - the fatty padding resulted in the actual awards feeling overly hurried for the most part.