Quarantine Cocktails: The Canadian Mule

 

Nice mailer from Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale": Canadian whisky (Crown Royal XO0, Canadian maple syrup, ginger beer, splash of lime juice. Delicious.

Emmys 2017: Backstage With Winners Donald Glover, Alec Baldwin and More

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Donald Glover, and "Master of None" writer Lena Waithe were among the winners who broke new ground at Sunday night's ceremony. And the streaming TV biz passed the ultimate Emmy threshold on Sunday night, as Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” made history. “Handmaid’s Tale” picked up the win for outstanding drama series, which represents the first time a streaming service had one won of the top Emmy series prizes. It was just four years ago, in 2013, that Netflix became the first streaming platform to win an Emmy, as “House of Cards” picked up a handful of victories. Read all about it here. I covered the news from backstage; a few highlights:

Alec Baldwin

Laura Dern

Kate McKinnon

Donald Glover

Dave Mandel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the cast and producers of "Veep"

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Sterling K. Brown

Lena Waithe and Aziz Ansari

Elisabeth Moss and the cast and producers of "The Handmaid's Tale"

Check out IndieWire's full Emmy coverage here.