The Emmy Awards – like a less cool TV-based version of the already staggeringly uncool Oscars – took place last night with The Sopranos sort of doing pretty well but not as well as most people thought to some extent.
Although neither James Gandolfini or Edie Falco won the Emmys they thought they would, The Sopranos snatched Emmy victory for writing, directing and Outstanding Drama Series, mainly for cutting to black right at the moment when everyone thought something exciting would happen. Still, now The Sopranos has won its Emmys and put the rest of television to shame, fingers crossed that it inspires all sorts of copycats for next year's Emmys, like the forthcoming episode of Dora The Explorer where everything cuts to black right in the middle of the We Did It song.
And yes, we realise that was our six billionth Sopranos ending joke. We'll stop now. OK, we'll stop in a bit.
Aside from the period of time when Grey's Anatomy goes off-air, the Emmy Awards are the highlight of the American television calender. They're a lot like the British Soap Awards, except the people in the audience are properly famous and you can relax in the knowledge that some nefarious director won't keep spoiling your evening by continually cutting away to shots of Stacey Slater's face. Plus, sometimes, decent shows actually win Emmys. And by that we clearly mean The Sopranos.
An already preposterously lauded TV show, The Sopranos leapt into legendary status with its confusing ending that made everyone angry except for Hilary Clinton who quickly ripped it off. But just because nobody knows what the hell it was supposed to mean, the deliberately ambiguous ending to The Sopranos was clearly a hit with the Emmy voters because – as expected when The Sopranos was heavily nominated – this weekend's Emmys were all about The Sopranos as E! Online reports:
The iconic HBO series waltzed away with a win for Outstanding Drama Series at the 59th Annual Emmy Awards Sunday, capping off a 10-year run by winning the television industry's grandest prize. "Thank you very much, this is really great," creator and executive producer David Chase said. "Thank you to the Academy, to HBO for seven—or 10—years of just nothing but pure support. Thanks to James Gandolfini and Edie Falco…In essence, this is a story about a gangster, and gangsters are out here taking their kids to college, to school and trying to provide for their families… If this nation was run by gangsters," he shrugged. "Well, maybe it is."
But it wasn't a perfect night at The Emmys for The Sopranos – neither Gandolfini or Falco won their much-expected trophies, which instead went to someone from Boston Legal and Forrest Gump's mother. Other Emmys went to Baldy from Lost, Helen Mirren, Ugly Betty (the women not the show), 30 Rock – which makes us angrier and angrier each day it's not on British TV – and Ricky Gervais, which is frankly just going to make him even more unbearable than before, if that's even possible.
And how did Ryan Seacrest do at hosting The Emmys? Well, the truth is that we don't know and we don't care. And we're fully prepared to come right over there and give you what for if you know or care.
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