Awards shows have always been a primary vector for the entertainment industry’s decades-long campaign about how wonderful the entertainment industry is, but when it comes to issues of diversity, representation, and not-being-run-by-Les-Moonves, television clearly has a ways to go. So this year’s Emmys opened with the industry giving itself a pat on the back sarcastically, in this star-studded salute to diversity, “We Solved It”:
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