There you have it.
This is what life is like without the Golden Globe awards, something almost none of us has experienced in our lifetimes.
On the one hand — it’s a salutary message for Hollywood; a demonstration that nothing is permanent here. The mighty can fall, the mountains tumble.
On the other hand — What…The…F.
Hollywood devotes seven months out of the year to the awards race, the most bloated full-of-itself pageant of self-regard ever erected outside of a Pyongyang military parade.
While founded as a promotional vehicle for Hollywood films, there’s a very good case to be made that the awards firmament these days may actually chase more viewers away than it brings in if you look at this from the audiences’ perspective (remember them?).
On that entire campaign trail there was exactly one stop that wasn’t a burden to slog through. Yes, it was thrown by people whom “The Community” didn’t take totally seriously. But maybe it wasn’t such a horrible thing for stars-participants-audience to refuse to treat an awards show with the same solemnity as say, the announcement of a new cancer treatment.
And now, congratulations, at a moment when Hollywood is shall we say, realigning its relationship with the viewing public, they got rid of the one event that stood a chance still of winning over a few fans, portraying the Hollywood weltanschauung in a slightly less weltschmertzy light. With essentially sizzle reels for TV shows and films, and stars who weren’t birthed on TikTok.
Okay, a step back. The charges at hand against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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