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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 445771" data-attributes="member: 27">Notes:No network = no commercials.  Sounds good, but it makes for a very boring slog.  And no scheduled potty breaks!Mixing the main categories with the technical awards also makes it kind of tough to keep focused.There's no host.  They have an off-camera announcer who sounds like one of those flippant internet influencers.  He is really, really annoying.The winners seem to all be seated at the back of the room, so while they make it to the stage, they are airing awkward clips of the shows with no microphones to amplify the applause.  There's also no music to "play them onstage" or "play them offstage," which makes this feel really slipshod/cheap.A Martinez mentioned Jill Farren Phelps and attempted to get the audience to applaud her.  Someone should have tossed their dessert at him.They welcome new presenters onstage before the previous winners have cleared off, forcing the new person(s) to fight their way through to the front!After the In Memoriam segment, they did air one commercial (for wine). Which is appropriate, as this is driving me to drink.I'm seeing a LOT of really bad dresses.  I mean, really bad.  I'm having trouble picking out anything I'd call "okay", much less "pretty".Around two hours in they decided to tell the winners to speed up their speeches, which was unfair to them since the winners in the first two hours went on and on. Even the smarmy announcer seemed eager for it to end.  Finally I realized he reminds me of "Jamie," one of the Progressive Insurance characters in those annoying commercials.Three hours!!</blockquote>

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