In terms of politics the Emmys join the award-show party late, after the Golden Globes, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys have all taken whacks at the Trump presidency. Yet the president's preferred medium provided fertile terrain for satirizing and commenting upon the political moment, a mood that permeated everything from host Stephen Colbert's monologue to the diverse winners and onstage banter.
In his new film "American Assassin," Dylan O'Brien plays Mitch Rapp, a Jason Bourne-like operative whose tragic backstory and trauma fuels him as he uses his deadly abilities to hunt down bad guys.
Fretting about Emmy "snubs" is now an annual occurrence, if a fairly misguided one. Amid such an abundance of quality TV, it's not necessarily a conscious slight if someone doesn't make the all-star team.
Post-Emmy nomination headlines might be dominated by the big stories -- like the five first-time nominees in the best drama category or "Westworld" and "Saturday Night Live's" 22 nominations apiece -- but there's a lot more going on in the 65 pages of nominations than the names that were announced on Thursday morning's televised presentation.
The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning and it looks to be the year of the freshman in one of the biggest categories.
