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The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2023 Emmys Held in 2024
The ceremony kept things tight: FX, speech times, Anthony Anderson’s latex.
(“It’s probably not a dream to immigrate to this country and have your child be like, ‘I wanna do improv!’ But you’re real ones.”) Brunson — the first Black woman to pick up the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy award in more than 40 years, since Isabel Sanford for The Jeffersons in 1981 — submitted a list of people she wanted shouted out in a chyron so her actual speech could be teary and genuine. Lee Sung Jin’s Netflix miniseries about two strangers who become embroiled in a road-rage incident that eventually takes over their lives won five of the six Emmys it was nominated for: Best Limited Series, Writing and Directing, and Lead Actor and Actress for Steven Yeun and Ali Wong. But when Mark Snow’s spooky intro for the most prescient show of the ’90s played, there was no Fox Mulder, no Dana Scully, no David Duchovny and Gillian Armstrong recreating the chemistry that made us all scream at Chris Carter for not letting them kiss as much as we wanted (which was all the time).
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