The Primetime Emmy Awards: Season 74

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CBS | NBC | Peacock | Season Premiere Date: September 12, 2022

Summary: Kenan Thompson hosted the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC and Peacock.

Genre(s): Arts, Events & Specials

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Rob Owen

Sep 13, 2022

Perhaps the affable Thompson, so reliable on “Saturday Night Live,” was talked into that awful opening, because he quickly returned to tell some jokes that successfully scored laughs. The remainder of the telecast was funny, entertaining and moved like a freight train. Read full review

Jen Chaney

Sep 13, 2022

It is a confusing but often entertaining time to watch television. Appropriately, the 2022 Emmy Awards honoring all that television was also a confusing, often entertaining experience. ... The Emmys was a little too much too fast — the broadcast sailed through 25 categories last night, one more than we typically see at the Academy Awards, and still finished right on time at 11 p.m. ET. But within that flurry of activity, the Emmys captured some unexpected, truly sublime moments. Read full review

Manuel Betancourt

Sep 13, 2022

As telecasts go, we must acknowledge that this year’s show moved perhaps a tad too swiftly and offered plenty of laughs in the process. ... And if Thompson’s straight man routine helped buoy some moderately funny bits (Kumail Nanjiani bartending; modern dancers reinterpreting famous TV theme songs), it was Sam Jay’s voice and presence which helped set this year’s ceremony apart. The SNL writer helped keep things breezy, casual, and often outright hilarious. Read full review

Darren Franich

Sep 13, 2022

Some amazing shows and wonderful artists won on Monday, but the TV Academy always overstretches. Two montages celebrated Doctor Shows and Police Shows, coincidentally all Shows That Barely Get Nominated Anymore. Thompson often felt less present than poor Sam Jay, a funny comedian who has to live down announcer patter like "These two go together like Hennessy and Tupac!" ... The show got better when it got out of the way. Read full review

Rob Sheffield

Sep 13, 2022

Kenan Thompson hosted the 74th Annual Emmy Awards with the proverbial Just One Job, which is to make it not as humiliatingly awful as last year’s show. He got it done, by slightly less than the point spread. At least Emmy Night 2022 had a few surprises in the winners column — so, hey, thanks? And the winners made fantastic speeches, especially Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lizzo, and Zendaya. Those moments are the whole reason fans tune in. Unfortunately, they still had to fight against a ticking clock and whatever dipstick was conducting the Silence Jennifer Coolidge at All Costs Orchestra. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Sep 13, 2022

Back as a full-scale production for the first time since 2019, the Emmys moved, in moments, with a refreshing fleetness. But much of the production seemed strangely stuck in a hazy past. ... It remains hard to fathom, though, that the celebration itself is so staid, so afraid of leaning into the quirk and intrigue that has made TV such a rewarding medium for its creators, who sat through a Kenan Thompson dance routine in person, and its fans, who sat through it at home, or skipped it in favor of watching “Squid Game” or “Hacks” or whatever great thing might win next year. Read full review

The Daily Beast Kevin Fallon

Sep 13, 2022

This was one of the worst Emmys telecasts in recent memory. ... Award shows are fun to watch, and, in spite of itself, this year’s ceremony made that case. ... It was almost as if handing out trophies was a chore—a distraction from the mission to make viewers eye-roll as much as possible while watching insufferable bits. It’s hilarious, then, how moving most of the wins were. (Beyond that, I can’t remember a time I’ve seen an award show and thought almost every winner was the right choice.) ... Kenan Thompson hosted the show, and was, to keep it concise, terrible. Read full review

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