Emmy Awards: “Schitt’s Creek”, crowned best comic series

The stars of the TV series attended Sunday from their living room or their room at the evening of the Emmy Awards, equivalent of the Oscars for the small screen in the United States, during which the team of “Schitt’s Creek”, crowned best comic series, has like expected received its reward remotely, pandemic requires.

Catherine O’Hara, crowned “best actress” in a comedy series for “Schitt’s Creek”, was thus given the golden statuette from the hands of a man wearing a full body suit of biological protection. Followed Eugene Levy “best comic actor” then his son Daniel Levy distinguished for the screenplay and the best supporting role … “Schitt’s Creek” won the grand slam, winning the first seven awards given on Sunday evening.

Unlike most of the other contenders, the Canadian Series team was able to come together for a private event in Toronto. All had been tested for Covid-19 and then placed in solitary confinement.

A Canadian comedy about a family of the privileged fallen reduced to living in a dilapidated motel, the series had nevertheless gone almost unnoticed for its first four seasons before becoming a success by being broadcast on Netflix.

The 72nd edition of the Emmy Awards must take up the challenge of a 100% virtual show, with comedian Jimmy Kimmel alone at the helm in a deserted Los Angeles room, without red carpet or flashy evening wear. “Hi, and welcome to PandEmmys!” He said to kick off the evening.

For this unprecedented edition, cameras were sent home to some 130 candidates, who were invited to compete with inventiveness in their speeches, or even to put on pajamas.

“For years, audience scores have been at half mast for award ceremonies. This is the opportunity or never to change the situation, to have a ceremony that is unlike any other, ”said Libby Hill, television awards specialist at the editorial staff of the IndieWire site.

“Even if Sunday night turns out to be a disaster, at least it will be an interesting disaster. And that’s really all we can ask for in 2020, ”she adds.

The “Watchmen” mini-series is the favorite with 26 nominations in its category, and its dark and chaotic universe wonderfully reflects the era of time.

Centered around the massacre of several hundred black inhabitants of the city of Tulsa (Oklahoma) in 1921 by white rioters, “Watchmen” indeed plunges into the heart of racist violence and police brutality, themes which are cruelly topical in United States since the end of May.

With the end of the hit series “Game of Thrones”, also produced by HBO, the competition is finally more open this year in the category of drama series.

“It is a chance for HBO to have + Succession + which comes at the right time”, according to Pete Hammond, of the specialized site Deadline.

The dark comedy about the heartbreak of a powerful family to take control of a media empire won an Emmy Award for its first season last year. It was featured 18 times this time around, tied with the Netflix-produced “Ozark” series.

With “Schitt’s Creek”, the video-on-demand giant, which has been selected 160 times this year, has finally managed to win an Emmy Award in a major category.

In ambush, we will find Sunday “The Crown”, devoted to the British royal family, and “The Mandalorian”, first series from the universe of “Star Wars”, which has already earned the new platform Disney + five Emmy Awards in technical categories awarded earlier in the week.

Among the hundred nominations for actors and actresses, black artists represent more than a third of the contingent in 2020, a new record.

In this list, Regina King, main actress in “Watchmen” was distinguished and took the opportunity to call on all spectators to mobilize for the presidential election on November 3. “You have to vote. I would be unworthy of not mentioning this, as a member of a show as visionary as + Watchmen + ”, launched the actress.

Regina King wore a t-shirt with the effigy of Breonna Taylor, a black American killed by the police and became one of the symbols of “Black Lives Matter”, a protest movement present in the minds of most of the stars of Hollywood this year.