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Article snippet: • “The Handmaid’s Tale” won best drama series and a total of eight awards, with Elisabeth Moss winning best lead actress. See all the winners. • “Saturday Night Live” won nine awards, the most of any show, on a night where politics were front and center. Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon took supporting acting awards. • HBO won the most awards of any network. “Big Little Lies” won for best limited series and nearly swept its acting categories. And “Veep” won for best comedy, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus winning best actress in a comedy. • Want more? Read commentary from our TV critics and see fashion from the red carpet. LOS ANGELES — It was inevitable that a streaming service would win an Emmy for best drama at some point. But no one expected Hulu to get there first. Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” won TV’s most prestigious prize here on Sunday night at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, beating out competitors from HBO, NBC and Netflix. Even though Hulu has a smaller programming budget than competitors like Netflix and Amazon, it became the first streaming service to land a best drama victory. It was the capstone of a big night for a relatively new entrant in the awards arena: Elisabeth Moss, formerly of “Mad Men,” finally won her first Emmy for her portrayal as Offred in “Handmaid’s’’, and the show also took home prizes for writing and directing. As the producers and cast gathered onstage to accept the award, they were joined... Link to the full article to read more