The Screen Actors Guild Awards aren't on most must-watch lists during Oscar season. Past telecasts ran on TNT and TBS, treated as temporary departures to their standard lineups of basic cable butchered movies and sitcom repeats.
Last year’s shifted over to Netflix’s YouTube channel without much notice, except among those watching for clues as to how well the streamer’s ultimate plan of airing them live on its platform might work. Saturday night’s 30th Annual SAG Awards gave the answer: Its live stream went off without a hitch once it was up and running, and as soon as the production's sound engineers struck the proper balance between the musical swell and the actors’ mics. Michael Cera, Colman Domingo, Hannah Waddingham and Idris Elba walked us into the festivities at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall with a seamless relay where they listed their career highs and lows before saying their names and finishing with, “And I am an actor.”
