Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

A network and a streaming operation were the biggest spenders last night.

Usually, they only spend enough to get the nomination, but they both wanted wins as well.

A studio thought they didn’t spend enough, but apparently they did.

This is the only place you can buy what you want. You can also f**k some people to get what you want, but that never works past the nominations.

Oh, and next time, when you decide one of the winners, maybe you can avoid suspicion by not also inviting someone to come as a presenter too.

GOLDEN GLOBES

Network: FOX 21 – FX
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

Streaming operation: Netflix – The Kominsky Method

Studio: 20th Century Fox
Bohemian Rhapsody

Winner/presenter: Olivia Colman – playing Queen Anne in The Favourite

Do better next year! Why alarmingly bad TV swept the Golden Globes

While not as overtly egregious as the awards handed out in the film categories – Seriously? Bohemian Rhapsody? Seriously? – the television half of this year’s Golden Globes still managed to smear itself across a spectrum ranging from “well-deserved” to “sit down, dad, you’re drunk”.

We’ll start with the latter, because that’s more fun. If you take the opinion of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as gospel, which you probably shouldn’t (Bohemian Rhapsody? Really?), the biggest lesson to learn from last night’s awards is that comedy is in the worst trouble of its life.

Of the three categories reserved for comedy – best actor, best actress, best series – two went to Netflix’s The Kominsky Method and one went to Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. This would be fine if either of these shows were remotely funny or good, but they’re not, so it isn’t. The Kominsky Method is a middling autumnal wist-com shored up by a big-ticket cast, and any given episode of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is roughly the television equivalent of being beaten to death by a Puppini Sisters CD you found at a car boot fair.

What a waste of three perfectly good trophies. Look at the list of nominees and you’ll find shows that are smarter, braver and – importantly – actually capable of making you laugh. Barry was in there. Atlanta was in there. The Good Place was in there. GLOW was in there. All of them are more deserving than the actual winners, which are both the sort of show you’d expect to blare out unwatched at full volume in the corner of a residential home common room. Good comedy does actually exist, HFPA. Do better next year. – Source

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