2024 Emmys: Best and Worst Moments From the Awards Show

The 76th Primetime Emmys took place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night, a ceremony its co-host Dan Levy celebrated as “broadcast TV’s biggest night for honoring movie stars on streaming services.” Jodie Foster, a winner for “True Detective: Night Country,” must have felt so seen.

Levy, who hosted alongside his father, Eugene Levy, presided over a generally predictable ceremony, sprinkled with a few surprises. Supporting acting awards for Liza Colón-Zayas, for “The Bear,” and Lamorne Morris, for “Fargo,” seemed to startle even the winners.

The broadcast slumped in the second hour, which included a lengthy introduction to the Television Academy chair Cris Abrego and an in memoriam sequence set to Jelly Roll’s “I Am Not Okay.” (It worked better if you didn’t think too hard about the lyrics.) But it rebounded in the third, which saw substantial wins for “Baby Reindeer” and “Shogun,” which set a record for the most Emmy Awards in a single season (18). And the ceremony concluded with perhaps the night’s biggest shock: The award for best comedy went not to the heavily favored FX restaurant dramedy “The Bear” but instead to the Max showbiz sitcom “Hacks.” The 11 awards “The Bear” received are the most won by a comedy in a single season, which must be some consolation.

The hosts strode into “The Bear” comedy-not-a-comedy debate early in the night. “In the spirit of ‘The Bear,’ we will not be making any jokes,” Eugene Levy said. But there were some good ones, including two — courtesy of Selena Gomez and Candice Bergen — about childless cat ladies. In a big night for diversity and kilts, these were the best and worst moment of the Emmys. ALEXIS SOLOSKI

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We went into the night knowing which shows were going to dominate these Emmys — or did we? It turned out that a night of runaway winners and foregone conclusions had some surprises for us after all.