Right around the time that Ozark pulled off a shocking upset in two categories where Game of Thrones appeared to have Online Cigarettes Store USA an iron-clad grip on victory — Directing and Supporting Actress — some wondered whether the HBO’s show’s watch as an Emmy favorite had ended. But in the end, the fantasy series claimed the Emmy Throne, with its fourth win for Outstanding Drama Series. That puts Game of Thrones amongst such illustrious company as Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, The West Wing and Mad Men, all of which were members of the four-timers’ club. GoT also tied its own Emmy record with a dozen wins in a single season. Look, we can argue all day about whether or not Game of Thrones deserved to win the Outstanding Drama statue Newport Pleasure for its controversial final season. But what’s absolutely not up for debate is that Emmy voters yet again missed their chance to honor a member of the show’s terrific cast beyond perennial winner, Peter Dinklage. Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Gwendoline Christie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau were just a few members of the ensemble who deserved a statue at some point during the show’s eight-season run only to be repeatedly passed over. At least showrunner D.B. Weiss took a moment to give them a shout-out after the show won Outstanding Drama: “You make everything we write better.” Hey, he said it — not us! While many prognosticators (us included) predicted that HBO’s Veep would enjoy a final season sweep, the second and last season of Amazon Prime’s Fleabag proved first in Emmy voters’ hearts. Creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge won dual statues for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Actress — breaking Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s near-perfect streak of Veep victories in that category — and the show itself claimed the Outstanding Comedy Series statues over its Amazon Prime streaming mate The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. “The reason I do it is for this,” Waller-Bridge said during one of her many trips to the stage, half-jokingly referring to the Emmy in her hand. For a brief moment, it looked like Homer Simpson was about to break the cartoon barrier by becoming the first animated leading man to host the Emmys. But the usual Springfield luck held up, and the Simpson family patriarch wound up plunging through the stage floor. Into the fray leapt Newport 100s Box Black-ish star Anthony Anderson, who raced backstage to find a replacement — with a brief stop to bag some statues for himself and his mom. While that bit fell flat, Anderson did find the intro’s hope and savior in the form of Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, who took the stage and delivered the kind of earnest speech that an actual host would have had to sell in between jokes. “50 years ago, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and through the power of television, 600 million people in 53 million households walked with him. Not a bad rating.” Not a bad way to begin the night either.