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While there were pops of color on the red carpet (hello, Brooke Shields!) it was the intense black outfits on America Ferrera, Debra Messing, Kate Walsh and others that really made an impression.

It was Goth for a grown-up crowd—with lots of ruffles, layers and ruching creating a faintly creepy effect, as if Wednesday Addams had grown up and gone to the Emmys in all her gory glamour.

Or maybe we're taking the funereal-looking frocks a little too seriously? What do you think: Was all the black for the best, or were you also afraid of bustles going bump in the night?