Maybe it was watching Stephen Colbert get his final two “Late Show” Emmys engraved at the after-party. Or hearing the rowdy Apple TV contingent in the audience whoop it up every time “Widow’s Bay” notched another win.
\n\nBut inside the Peacock Theater on Monday night, this year’s Emmy Awards felt like a transition to a new era of television.
\n\nAs the TV Academy’s events crew rolled away the blue carpet, the event gave us plenty of moments to remember. Here are just a few …
\n\nWith an opening musical number starring New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson and a “Law & Order: SVU” skit starring Taylor Swift, host Mariska Hargitay called in plenty of favors from her famous friends to help lend the Emmys a little star power. Hargitay, the show’s first female host in 15 years, rotated through at least 10 wardrobe changes, including a “Game of Thrones”-style fur cape and black power suit. But the uniform she kept on all night was cheerleader for the medium of television, going so far as to repurpose a line from Nicole Kidman’s viral AMC Theatres commercial to say, “At the end of the day, we come to TV for magic.”
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