It was a tame throwback Sunday at the Emmy Awards tonight with blasts from the past taking center stage in a show seemingly longing for another era. Besides Hacks unexpected and well deserved Best Comedy win, the show was full of predictable and well deserved trophies for FX’s Shōgun and The Bear , plus Netflix’s Baby Reindeer . Along with anticipated victories for True Detective: Night Country’ s Jodie Foster, The Crown’ s Elizabeth Debicki and Hack ’s Jean Smart, Sunday’s nearly three-hour long nostalgia heavy 76 th Primetime Emmy Awards was punctuated by a crowd pleasing West Wing 25 th anniversary reunion.
Even so, from burn on the “bit far-fetched, if not utterly ridiculous” politics of 2024 by Richard Schiff, there was not much new to be said there on this small screen display of back to the future. “Our political landscape has shifted dramatically in recent years,” stated Janel Moloney, with co-stars Schiff, Martin Sheen, Dule Hill, and Allison Janney standing nearby in a Jed Bartlet administration Oval Office replica. “But two things have not changed, the importance of everyone making sure to be registered and to vote,” the show’s Donna Moss added.
“And the quality, the quality of the drama series on television,” said Sheen himself in best Bartlet fashion as the nominees and winner for the category were unveiled (Hint – it was the 18 Emmy winning Shōgun ). If the appearance by everyone’s favorite fiction POTUS and his close aides .