In the long arc of television's effort to honor its finest performers, the 79th Primetime Emmy Awards arrived at an unrepeated moment: a single actor, Welsh-born Matthew Rhys, claimed victory in two separate lead actor categories on the same night, for two entirely different roles in two entirely different series. The ceremony, held at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles and guided by host Mariska Hargitay, became less an evening of distributed recognition than a referendum on one performer's extraordinary range. Such a convergence invites reflection on how the television landscape has quietly