Aziz Ansari

Television's glittering Emmys placed politics front and center on Sept. 17, lavishing "The Handmaid's Tale" with awards for its bleak portrait of an authoritarian America.

The glitzy ceremony in downtown Los Angeles was widely expected to have a strongly political flavor, and host Stephen Colbert set the tone in his opening monologue.

Awards season is officially back, even though it feels like it just ended. The Emmy awards nominations are in, and this year there was some tough competition.