The Emmy Awards on Sunday night didn't offer up one single show that outperformed all the rest. Instead, a few shows split most of the major categories, without too many surprises (there was perhaps one). Hosts Eugene and Dan Levy did their best to keep things moving, and as always, everyone was very thankful.
Here are a few takeaways from the ceremony and the Emmy season. Shōgun was the sweeping historical drama that swept the top categories. More could follow.
Shōgun is the biggest Emmy winner this year, after 14 awards last weekend at the Creative Arts ceremony and four on Sunday night: the show took home outstanding drama series, in addition to awards for lead actor Hiroyuki Sanada, lead actress Anna Sawai, and director Frederick E.O. Toye.
Sweeping historical epics are not as popular as they once were, and over and over, FX and Hulu were praised for being willing to support an expensive period piece that was largely in Japanese with subtitles. It's going to be interesting to see whether there is any effort in the next couple of years to pursue these sweeping epic series like the ones that used to air in the '70s and '80s, like North and South or The Thorn Birds . It's hard to make an exciting awards show when it's too soon after the last show.
The last Emmy Awards were only in January of this year , after being delayed by the actors' and writers' strikes. Thus, we just did all of the celebrating of beloved shows, the saluting of people who are in The Bear and Hacks ,.