Tuesday, October 11, 2022

National Coming Out Day and Emmy Awards for 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' 'Queer Eye,' 'We're Here,' and 'Legendary'


Happy National Coming Out Day! I telegraphed today's topic at the end of Lizzo made headlines and history playing James Madison's crystal flute after winning an Emmy, when I told my readers "By the way, don't feel too sorry for 'Queer Eye' and 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' Both took home Emmys, which I will probably cover on National Coming Out Day. Stay tuned." But first, I'm sharing Bustle's Coming Out with Queer Eye's Fab Five.

"We weren't any different than anybody else." To celebrate Pride Month, Bustle sat down with the Fab Five from Netflix's Queer Eye to hear their coming out stories. Try not to tear up while watching Jonathan, Karamo, Tan, Bobby and Antoni share their stories.
That was as moving as advertised.

Follow over the jump as I revisit my predictions for the categories "Queer Eye" "RuPaul's Drag Race" won that I covered in 'Queer Eye' leads structured reality programs with six nominations at the 2022 Emmy Awards.

Outstanding Structured Reality Program
Antiques Roadshow (PBS)
Fixer Upper: Welcome Home (Magnolia Network)
Love Is Blind (Netflix)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
Shark Tank (ABC)
I'm recycling my analysis from last year's 'Queer Eye' leads structured reality program nominees again at the Emmy Awards while 'preaching love, acceptance, pride, and compassion'.
The favorite for Outstanding Structured Reality Program is three-time [now four-time] returning winner "Queer Eye," which, as the promotional image from Twitter shows, has a total of six nominations, including Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program, Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program, Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program, [Outstanding Production Design for a Variety, Reality or Competition Series replacing Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program], and Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program. I'm being a good environmentalist by recycling last year's description of the returning nominees.
"Queer Eye" preaches "love, acceptance, pride, and compassion" and, as I wrote last year, "'Queer Eye' [is] not only...a fun show that helps people be more fashionable, but [is] also...an example of diversity, inclusion, and acceptance. Keep up the good work!" It did...
...I'm recycling my handicapping of the category as well.
"Queer Eye" won this category last year [and the three years before that] and I expect it will win again.
Congratulations on winning this category for a record-breaking five consecutive times!

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program
Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness – Queer Eye (Netflix)
Nicole Byer – Nailed It! (Netflix)
Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John, and Kevin O'Leary – Shark Tank (ABC)
Padma Lakshmi – Top Chef (Bravo)
Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman – Making It (NBC)
RuPaul – RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)
RuPaul won this award last year, and has since since 2016, a string of six consecutive years. I expect this year will be the seventh.
And it was. Congratulations!

Outstanding Production Design for a Variety, Reality or Competition Series (Area)
A Black Lady Sketch Show: "Anybody Have Something I Can Flog Myself With?" - Cindy Chao, Michele Yu, and Lizzie Boyle (HBO/HBO Max)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: "Colbert's "Lord of the Rings" Rap Celebrates 20 Years of The Greatest Trilogy in Movie History" - Jim Fenhagen, Larry Hartman, Brendan Hurley, and Riley Mellon (CBS)
Queer Eye: "Angel Gets Her Wings" - Thomas Rouse and Josh Smith (Netflix)
RuPaul's Drag Race: "Catwalk" - Gianna Costa and Allison Spain (VH1)
Saturday Night Live: "Host: Kim Kardashian" - Eugene Lee, Akira Yoshimura, Keith Ian Raywood, N. Joseph DeTullio, and Melissa Shakun (NBC)
"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" is the only variety talk show nominated in this category, competing against the two nominees for variety sketch series and the top nominees for structured reality show and competition show. While that means that this episode had the best production design of all the variety talk shows, beating out "Last Week Tonight," which earned a nomination in this category last year but not this year, I doubt that will be enough. "Saturday Night Live" has won this award five years in a row and I expect it will win it again.
And now my updated reaction from 'RuPaul's Drag Race' leads competition shows with eight nominations plus three more for its spinoffs.
The only hope for the other nominees, including "RuPaul's Drag Race" and "Queer Eye" is that this is an area award, so several shows could win, including "RuPaul's Drag Race." I'm OK with that.
Surprise! "Saturday Night Live" lost to "RuPaul's Drag Race." This is one of the reasons 'SNL' won just one Emmy Award.

Two more shows relevant to today's theme won juried awards, "We're Here" and "Legendary." Here are the categories from the Wikipedia entry for the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards along with the Twitter images promoting their wins.

We're Here: "Evansville, Indiana" – Casey Caldwell, Diego Montoya, Joshua "Domino" Schwartz, Marco Marco, and Patryq Howell (HBO)Winner
Legendary: "Whorror House" – Tonia Green, Tyson Fountaine, Sean Conklin, Marcel Banks, Jennifer Fregozo, Silvia Leczel, and Glen Alen (HBO Max)Winner
We're Here: "Kona, Hawaii" – Jeremy "6" Austin, Martin de Luna Jr. "Lushious Massacr", and Tyler "Laila McQueen" Devlin (HBO)Winner
And now, a Twitter image specifically for "We're Here."


Congratulations to all the winners!

I'm not done with holidays as tomorrow is National Fossil Day. Stay tuned!

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