The 2015 Emmys were the hottest ever

• A night of firsts on Fox. Viola Davis became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for best lead actress on a drama series, ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder (yaaay), Jon Hamm finally won for Mad Men (yaaay) and HBO’s Game of Thrones overcame voter’s anti-fantasy prejudice to snare the most trophies ever in a season (yaaay)

• Davis quoted Harriet Tubman.  “Let me tell you something. The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.” African-American actresses Uzo Aduba and Regina King won for supporting performances

• Mad Men star Hamm bypassed the stairs to the stage, scrambling onto it on his stomach. “There has been a terrible mistake, clearly,” he said, accepted the award which he’d missed out on seven times. Transparent was an early winner, capturing a best comedy actor trophy for Jeffrey Tambor, who dedicated his award to the transgender community

• HBO’s Olive Kitteridge, about a grumpy math teacher and her forgiving husband in Maine, won six trophies in the limited series category, including leading acting honors for Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins and a supporting award for Bill Murray

• Host Andy Samberg, who was actually funny, noted that HBO had shown no interest in policing how people share passwords for their HBO Go and HBO Now apps (they sure will now…) Samberg then posted a login – khaleesifan3@emmyhost.com – and password (password1) for his HBO Now account, and invited everyone without cable to use it

• Hot Hot Hot! It was, like, dudes, 100 degrees or something, whatever. The 2015 Emmys were the hottest ever – all the heat you can take, including the white-hot pic of Mario Lopez’s sweat-soaked shirt (Buzzfeed, me)