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Emmys TV Review: Anthony Anderson Solid As Host; Nostalgia-Heavy Ceremony Contains Few Surprises, Little Politics


Four months later than originally scheduled due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards finally showed up tonight. Fast-paced, packed with reunions, tributes and a Best Tal…

In fact, with Succession, The Bear and Beef snagging most of the major Emmy categories, one of the biggest surprises of the night had to be how few remarks there were about politics and the labor actions that bitterly divided Hollywood last year and shut down almost all production. Soon after the versatile Anderson warned everyone his mother and We Are Family co-host would be cutting long speeches short, Christina Applegate’s appearance on the stage and returning to her old Married …With Children stomping ground prompted a well-deserved standing ovation. There was Good Times alum Marla Gibbs as a presenter and pay equity advocate, and there was a genuinely funny Mean Girls remake wisecrack in the SNL Weekend Update reunion with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were real moments that only live TV can bring.

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