What Pandemic Where? The Emmys Red Carpet Returns To Normalcy

Get the Full StoryWhat a difference a year makes! Last year s lockdown Emmy Awards were a drab affair due to them taking place in the middle of a global pandemic. As you may recall, there was no red carpet, the stars dressed up and paraded around in their backyards instead, and the awards were hand delivered by a man in a Hazmat suit who spent the evening lurking in their driveways. But this year, the glamour and glitz is back! Sure, we re still in the middle of a global pandemic, but fuck it! We all need a little razzle dazzle in our lives, and it s totally worth the risk with results like The Crown s Emma Corrin here serving Guillermo del Toro Pale Man spookiness as The Handmaiden From The Black Lagoon by Miu Miu .

Good to see she s following the golden rule of fashion: When you have palm eyeballs, keep the rest demure.

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You can t kill glamor with a pandemic, but it can be snatched up without warning and dragged to a hidden underwater lair. But thankfully, it s not going down without a fight! I d love to see someone trying to submerge the effervescent buoyancy of Nicole Byer in purple-flavored Christian Siriano. This look is a serotonin-tini shaken to a frothy climax, served up with a twist. And that twist? She s motorized!

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Now, it s impossible to make Angela Bassett look bad, but somebody Greta Constantine I m looking at you tried it anyway by irradiating a tapeworm until it grew to unfathomable proportions before injecting it with a solution of concentrated Pepto Bismol, loading it into a time machine and transporting it to 1989 where it was hand-sewn onto a black sheath by a blind man with rheumatoid arthritis in his hands. But Still She Rises!

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Dan Levy s prescient Valentino suit hints at a future where all our jobs will be done by robots programmed to perform a variety of different tasks. So when you go to get your teeth cleaned in the year 2054, don t be surprised when after, your hygienist asks if you d like to see the dessert menu then bursts into flames because it cannot compute its contradicting directives.

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Here are some more of the looks of the 2021 Pandemic Be Damned Emmy red carpet hover to scroll. We ve got Jean Smart, Beanie Feldstein, Kerry Washington, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Sarah Paulson.

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Below are Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, Catherine O Hara, Annie Murphy, Michaela Coel, and Mindy Kaling.

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And here s Issa Rae, Jurnee Smollett, Yara Shahidi, Kate Winslet, and Bo Burnham.

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And Jason Sudeikis, Our Lady J, Cynthia Erivo, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Allison Janney.

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And let s not forget Kaley Cuoco, MJ Rodriguez, Ellen Pompeo, Jennifer Coolidge, and Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett.

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And finally, Reg -Jean Page, Ellen Pompeo in case you missed her up top , Ashley Nicole Black, Mandy Moore, and Kathryn Hahn.

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