27 Weeks To Oscar: The Trouble With Award Shows (Emmy Edition)

Once again, after a forgettable evening of "thank you"s and whining by the permanently aggrieved, Hollywood's media tries to figure out what went wrong with an awards show.

Ans here is my obnoxious, but accurate, answer.

Nothing went wrong.

Everyone did their part. The Emmys have kept expanding to, now, 117 awarded categories so that records can be set on the regular. The talent showed up in their best borrowed outfits. Netflix filled the void in a season without ongoing series and will likely dominate next year's Emmys, like Succession, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Barry, and Euphoria, as well as shows (including their own) that ended, like Ozark, VEEP, and Schitt's Creek.

In the six Lead Acting categories, there were twelve Black nominees. In Supporting, 11. (I am avoiding "People of Color," since the only color other than White that is well represented at Emmys is Black... Hispanic/Latino/Latinx and Asians are still getting table scraps, from the industry and thus, from the Emmys.)

CBS pi…