A lackluster affair, the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards were emblematic of an entertainment industry that doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going.

Though it aired on CBS on Sunday night, the broadcast began as if it were on NBC, with a sketch that could have aired on “Saturday Night Live” about Philo Farnsworth — a real historical figure who is one of the inventors of television — premised on the idea that TV would evolve into … nonsensical mediocrity.

I’ll always prefer self-satire over self-congratulations. Nothing is more insufferable than a roomful of celebrities intoxicated by their own vanity and perceived importance, and anything that undercuts that is welcome. But host Nate Bargatze is not a TV star, so it came off as making fun of them rather than us (television’s popular crow

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