After 3 Hours and 21 Awards, Emmy Voters Finally Decide That Maybe ‘The Bear’ Isn’t a Comedy After All | Analysis

On a night when it won more awards than any other comedy series, “The Bear” loses to “Hacks” in the last award of the night

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Jean Smart, Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, Christopher McDonald, and Lucia Aniello accept Best Comedy Series Emmy for "Hacks" (Getty Images)

It took almost three hours for Emmy voters to render their verdict on the great “Bear” controversy, but that verdict came down clearly with the final award announced at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night.

“The Bear,” which had won 10 awards in January when the 75th Emmys were handed out, won another seven at last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys and four more during Sunday’s show. But then, when Catherine O’Hara opened the envelope for the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy that seemed all but certain to complete the FX show’s near-sweep of the comedy categories, she read the title “Hacks.”

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