The Best and Worst of the 2016 Emmy Awards

[View in browser] [Vulture] September 19, 2016 [Follow Vulture on Facebook] What to Read Today [The Best and Worst of the 2016 Emmy Awards This year's awards felt surprisingly perceptive.] [If This Fetus Could Talk: With Nutshell, Ian McEwan Tries (and Fails) to Fight His Own Conventionality His glum prose may make the author of Atonement the perfect English writer.] [Fifth Harmony’s That’s My Girl Video Questionably Takes Place in a War-Ravaged City Full of Injured Bystanders They also dance in a cave.] [55 Funniest Frozen Moments From the 2016 Emmys From Sarah Paulson to Peter Dinklage to The Americans cuties.] [Vulture Pick: Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Fall's most buzzworthy book follows a woman who attempts to escape a life of slavery in Georgia.] [Friday Night Lights’ Coach and Tami Taylor Reunited at the Emmys to Remind You of Your Couple Goals Clear eyes, full hearts.] [The Minnesota Vikings Had a ‘Purple Rain’ Sing-along for Prince at Halftime And now you're crying purple tears.] [That Time Sterling K. Brown Called Chris Darden and Got a ‘Who’s This?’ "I think I lamely tried to Facebook friend request him once."] [Christina Grimmie Was This Year’s Emmys ‘In Memoriam’ Snub Prince, David Bowie, and Anton Yelchin were included.] [Regina King and Sarah Paulson Share Adorable Backstage Emmys Reunion "I love you, Regina."] [Emmy Winner Rami Malek on His Immigrant Family and Why We Benefit From Seeing Heroes Like Elliot "We live in a world right now where so many of us feel voiceless. We're not being heard by the government, we're not being heard by our society."] [Leslie Jones Collects Everybody From Game of Thrones at the Emmys Like Beautiful Little Pokémon The return of Game of Jones.] [Jill Soloway Compares Donald Trump to Hitler After Emmys Win "Any moment I have to call Trump out to being an inheritor to Hitler, I will."] [Taylor Mac on 20 Songs That Made the Cut for A 24-Decade History of Popular Music The artist’s annotation of hits and obscurities, ditties and anthems, from this theatrical, musicological, ontological show.] [Kevin Can Wait Is Exactly As Awful As You Imagined A terrible and unimaginative show.] [Edward Albee Saw Life As a Cosmic Joke The playwright literally couldn't imagine being closeted, in any way.] [Mooncop Is the Most Chill Comic You’ll Read This Year It's the latest from celebrated cartoonist Tom Gauld.] [Sherlock’s Amanda Abbington Says Her Purse Was Stolen at the Emmys "Came back to my seat and some bastard had nicked my purse."] [Watch an Emotional Kanye Serenade a Fan: ‘You Literally Brought Tears to My Eyes’ He sings to Krystal, who had a Donda West shirt and "Runaway" tattoo.] [George R. R. Martin Keeps Your Fantasies of a Game of Thrones Prequel Alive But he's got a few other highly anticipated projects to finish first.] [The State of the Emmy Acceptance Speech Is Strong The speeches at this year's Emmys were heartfelt, articulate, and often perfect reflections of the shows and characters on which they focused.] [In a Tale As Old As Time, Angela Lansbury Surprises Audience, Sings ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Mrs. Potts still got it.] [Ballers Recap: The Morning After Did everyone on the Ballers writing staff suddenly take their vitamins?] [Stark Sisters Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams Have Matching Game of Thrones Tattoos No word on what Ned and Catelyn think about this.] [Adult Swim Voice Actor Clay Martin Croker Dead at 54 Croker was best known for playing Zorak and Moltar on Cartoon Network’s Space Ghost Coast to Coast.] [Read More on Vulture »] REACH THE RIGHT ONLINE AUDIENCE WITH US For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact [Giorgia.Rosenbluth@nymag.com] This email was sent to {EMAIL}. [subscribe] | [vulture.com] | [unsubscribe] | [privacy policy] | [nymag.com] | Copyright © 2016, All rights reserved New York Media LLC 75 Varick St. New York, NY 10013