oddness

The oddness of this year’s Emmys was perhaps most evident in the drama series category.

But he’s also, quite frequently, rambling and incoherent, running off on tangents that would grab headlines for their oddness should any other candidate say them.

“That oddness and how it’s all very vague and loose makes it feel almost psychedelic and phantasmagorical.”

Sometimes she contemplates the oddness of particular terms, like the “surround” of a bathtub, or the caramel “drizzle” on a coffee drink.

Its best feature is perhaps its unlikeliness: It has the oddness of a passion project, inexplicable in commercial terms — three-season deal notwithstanding — but something its makers just wanted to see.