'Twas the night of upsets in many ways. While Game of Thrones claimed back their yellow metal after sitting out for a year, it was Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel that took everyone by surprise to win all the awards in the comedy categories except for two that went to Henry Winkler and Bill Hader for their work on HBO show Barry.
In the race to win, streaming services Netflix and Amazon outshone cable and network channels. With the help of The Crown, Black Mirror and Godless Netflix made some headway and tied up with HBO for winning 23 awards each that also include Creative Arts Emmys. Barry, Game of Thrones and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver helped HBO.
Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story became the second season of Ryan Murphy's anthology series that won accolades for FX. Their People vs OJ Simpson started the winning streak that had continued with debut season of Feud last year. With Ryan Murphy moving to Netflix, Emmys shall be a different ballgame for the streaming giant in coming years. FX comedy by Donald Glover -- Atlanta -- surprisingly had to go home with no awards this year. Same was the case with dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale that won nada.
RuPaul's Drag Race and Saturday Night Live picked up one award each.