The camera certainly shouldn’t have lingered on Hill for any follow-up explanation– she’d already succeeded in making Underwood’s moment about *her*, so to continue to let her display the kind of acting chops she displayed here (and, of course, in her typecast role as a Stepford Wife) would’ve only further stolen Underwood’s thunder.

And I say this as someone who thinks Carrie Underwood is nothing more than diminished returns on Faith Hill anyway.