A horde of fans was left feeling shocked and betrayed at last night's Emmys after a video montage revealed a series of spoilers for many of the shows that ended this year. 
 
 Viewers were left dumbfounded as revealing clips from "Mad Men," "Boardwalk Empire" and "Parenthood" infiltrated their TVs – with many complaining they'll now never be able to watch those shows with the unwitting mentality they deserve. 
 
 The montage also showed revealing clips from "Boardwalk Empire." (HBO/Christopher T. Saunders) 
 
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 "Thanks for the series finale spoilers in that montage #Emmys2015," tweeted user Derick Valadao. "Brutal." 
 
 I can't believe The Emmys just gave away so many spoilers in that memoriam. — Gideon Glick (@gidglick) September 21, 2015 
 
 Hey #Emmys, we aren’t all @AndySamberg! Not everyone can lock themselves in a bunker and watch ALL the shows. #spoilers — Donna Dickens (@MildlyAmused) September 21, 2015 
 
 Thx for all the spoilers, Emmys. Jeez. — Matt Miller (@Official_MattM) September 21, 2015 
 
 Thanks, #Emmys for the devastating spoilers package — Scott Lamica (@Slamica) September 21, 2015 
 
 "I mean seriously how f------ stupid are the people who put together that montage of spoilers?" another user named Joshua Topolsky said. 
 
 Emmys host Andy Samberg only added insult to injury to the seething fans, as he jokingly pointed out that the montage obviously unveiled critical scenes from the ends of the shows. 
 
 "Welcome back to the Spoiler Awards," Samberg quipped after the montage. 
 
 At the beginning of the show, Samberg starred in a pre-recorded musical number where he sang about locking himself in a bunker for a year so he could binge watch every TV series out right now. 
 
 But evidently, not everyone had that luxury of time. 
 
 "Hey #Emmys, we aren't all @AndySamberg!" tweeted user Donna Dickens. "Not everyone can lock themselves in a bunker and watch ALL the shows." 
 
 The Emmys did have a few brave supporters, however. 
 
 "To everyone complaining about spoilers: most of those shows ended in the spring," tweeted Kelly Sharon. "If you haven't watched you're not going to." 
 
 They probably would've at least liked the chance to watch them, though. 
 
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 While finales are often revealed on social media, it is unlikely that boxset fans were expecting the industry's biggest awards ceremony to ruin things for them. 
 
 The film contained the endings to shows such as Nurse Jackie, Boardwalk Empire, Sons Of Anarchy and Mad Men. 
 
 Host Andy Samberg was quick to acknowledge that many people would be upset about the spoilers. 
 
 "Welcome back to the spoiler awards. I guess everyone on every show died," he said after a break. 
 
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 Unsurprisingly there was some anger on Twitter. 
 
 Dalton Ross tweeted: "The #Emmys just set the land-speed record for most spoilers per minute." 
 
 "That whole #Emmys montage celebrating shows that have ended was just a series of spoilers for anyone who hasn't finished any of those shows," wrote user Ashley Renee. 
 
 But there was a lack of sympathy from some who highlighted that many of the shows ended earlier this year and had been talked about widely on the internet. 
 
 Kelly Sharon tweeted: "To everyone complaining about spoilers: most of those shows ended in the spring. If you haven't watched you're not going to." 
 
 Mad Men star Jon Hamm walked away with the lead actor prize at the Microsoft Theatre after an eight-year wait. ||||| Surprises? Justice? Entertainment? Could This Really Be the Emmys? 
 
 The 2010 Emmy awards broadcast was a night of refreshing twists and unexpected surprises, the biggest of which, perhaps, was the 2010 Emmy awards broadcast. Namely, it was a pretty entertaining night of TV, kicked off by an actually amusing musical number (not even involving Neil Patrick Harris, at that!) featuring the cast of Glee, and leavened throughout by the guitar-comedy stylings of Jimmy Fallon. (Which were welcome, if not surprising, if you remember his stints as an MTV awards host beginning about a decade ago.) 
 
 And the awards themselves: also actually refreshing and surprising! (And, at least in most cases, more or less well-deserved.) There were very few multiple-repeat winners in a night of upsets and new faces; and most of the old faces who returned (say, Bryan Cranston and the series Mad Men for respective three-peats) were worthy. 
 
 Who took the Emmy awards away and replaced them with this? I have no idea, but we'll keep it. 
 
 The night began with the comedy categories, which were almost bound to produce new winners, as the chief competitors were freshmen Glee and Modern Family. Modern Family was the biggest winner (including a best-comedy win), but Glee—which saw an unsurprising win for actress Jane Lynch—showed in the hilarious opening number and numerous shout-outs how deeply it has penetrated the culture and the aesthetic of TV comedy. There is nothing, it seems, that can't be improved with a musical act, especially if it involves Betty White coaching Jon Hamm to shake his booty. And those two comedies didn't monopolize the spotlight: The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons won a fitting (if maybe a year late) comedy-actor award over repeat-accepters like Tony Shalhoub and Alec Baldwin. 
 
 A final comedy newcomer, if not exactly a surprise (and not exactly an Emmy newcomer): Edie Falco, for Showtime's Nurse Jackie. "I'm not funny!" she protested, and my Twitter feed was full of grumbling that she shouldn't have won, because the show is as much or more drama than comedy. I disagree, for a couple of reasons. The first is my belief that the best comedies don't have to be the shows with the most laughs; they're the shows that use comedy (and often also drama) to tell the best stories. Nurse Jackie may not neatly fall into comedy or drama completely, but it has to go in one or the other, and I don't understand why TV can't be as accepting of the gray areas between comedy and drama as film, where dark comedy and other hybrids are common (if not commercially huge). Second, whatever you think of Nurse Jackie, the award here was for the best nominated performance, and I think Falco earned that over the two eligible seasons; to deny it because she didn't have the most laff-a-minute lines diminishes her work, and that of the other nominated actresses. (That said? I would not have minded seeing Amy Poehler win.) 
 
 But the Emmys' bout of inertia-breaking didn't end with the comedies. Yes, Bryan Cranston kept his lock on the lead drama actor category (and I can't really deny it to him), but his costar Aaron Paul justly and surprisingly picked up the supporting category as well. The Good Wife's Archie Panjabi won a stunner in supporting actress (for doing great work in what could be a limited role, though, for instance, Mad Men's Christina Hendricks was more deserving), as did Kyra Sedgwick in lead actress (again, over the sadly overlooked Connie Britton of Friday Night Lights). 
 
 But even in the categories I thought Emmy got wrong, it at least showed a willingness to break out of its rut. How much so? The Amazing Race, which I am pretty sure has been winning Competitive Reality Show since well before the actual invention of television, was compelled to pack its knives and go by Top Chef. (More on Time.com: See the top 10 Emmy snubs) 
 
 [Update: One notable non-winner in the drama category, by the way, was Lost, which got shut out in its major acting, writing, directing and series nominations. I didn't think the final season was last season's best dramatic TV, unfortunately, but I half-expected Emmy to give the show a gold watch anyway, so count that as half a surprise.] 
 
 As for movies and miniseries: all right, no real shockers there, as HBO won pretty much everything of consequence, between Temple Grandin and The Pacific. But as it's practically the only channel (with the occasional exception of PBS and the odd cable effort) seriously in those categories, I can't complain. 
 
 Nor could I complain, much, about the ceremonies themselves, which were brisk, mostly lacking self-seriousness and entertaining. (One well-advised repeat performance: the return of John Hodgman as announcer.) The welcoming, eager-to-please Fallon was a success, as were guests like Ricky Gervais, who killed (maybe more so than at the Golden Globes) with his celeb-skewering patter. (On Mel Gibson: "He's been through a lot. [Pause.] Not as much as the Jews.") 
 
 It was a fine two hours of television. Granted, it was spread over three hours of television, but the lull leading into the final best-series announcements was a great opportunity to watch Mad Men do what earned it all those Emmys. (By the way, last night's Mad Men—mild spoiler alert—had an apt storyline involving an awards ceremony of its own; my review will be delayed this morning as I catch up on it.) 
 
 As for the repeat winners, one of them, The Daily Show for best comedy/variety program, while probably the best choice, robbed us of the night's best chance for comedy drama, namely, what would have happened had Conan O'Brien won, on NBC's air, for his aborted season of The Tonight Show. Instead, this was one rare time a broadcast network was glad to lose again to cable—and Coco lost a valuable branding moment leading into his November relaunch on TBS. 
 
 But early in the program, Fallon got off the first of several pointed references, noting that NBC had asked him to come from Late Night to L.A. to host a different show: "What could possibly go wrong?" he asked, as the camera cut to the bearded Conan. Then: "Too soon?" No, Jimmy, it was just in time. 
 
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– Whoops: Viewers watching the Emmys last night were dismayed when a montage celebrating shows that came to a close this year gave away the endings of many of those shows, Sky News reports. Among the series spoiled: Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Nurse Jackie, Parenthood, and Boardwalk Empire. "Welcome back to the spoiler awards," host Andy Samberg said when he came back onstage. "I guess everyone on every show died." There was outrage on Twitter, the New York Daily News reports, but not everyone was sympathetic to the complainers. For example: "To everyone complaining about spoilers: most of those shows ended in the spring. If you haven't watched you're not going to," tweeted one person. But, as another pointed out, "Hey #Emmys, we aren’t all @AndySamberg! Not everyone can lock themselves in a bunker and watch ALL the shows."