Ahoy! It's Your Emmys Open Thread
Welcome back to (the end of?) awards season.
Hello, fellow Broads! And welcome back to Awards Show Live Chat Season, if briefly: Today is the Emmy Awards. If you need to remind yourself of the nominees, there is a full list over on our website, Go Fug Yourself. There are some JUICY contests this year, and in case you’re wondering how the winds are already blowing, the guest performer awards for dramas and comedies went to, respectively: Shawn Hatosy (The Pitt), Merritt Wever (Severance), Bryan Cranston (The Studio), and Julianne Nicholson (Hacks).
The awards telecast kicks off at 5 p.m Pacific/8 p.m Eastern, and airs on CBS, wherever you get your local channel. To stream on Paramount+, you need the premium plan. If you want to watch the red carpet pre-shows — we obviously do! — E! gets going at 3 p.m/6 p.m, and CBS hosts its own pre-show at 4 p.m/7 p.m. The Emmy host this year is Nate Bargatze, whom we trust to do a totally competent job, as he generally does not seem like a doofus.
He may have also finally figured out a way to keep the show running on time. Per an interview with CNN:
Bargatze is making a $100,000 donation to the Boys and Girls Club of America, and kids from the organization will be in the room, he shared. But there’s a catch: Every Emmy winner gets 45 seconds to make their speech at the podium, but for every single second they run over their time limit, $1000 will be docked from Bargatze’s charitable donation.
“It’s a show, you gotta get moving,” Bargatze said. “It is very serious. The amount of money I give to the Boys and Girls Club is totally up to all of Hollywood.”
This seriously might be the only way to pull this off. We’ll see! (I suspect certain yappy winners will pitch in to make up for the money they personally caused to get deducted.)
Other open questions: Will it be Severance’s night? Will The Bear come roaring back? Will the women of White Lotus all cancel each other out? Will Cate Blanchett actually attend? (She’s nominated for Disclaimer.) What will Colman Domingo wear? What will Chloe Sevigny wear? What will Gwendoline Christie wear? What will — well, you get it!
The bar is open, come on in!