Unpredictability is the biggest weakness of the TV portion of the Golden Globes, and also its greatest strength. You can usually count on the Globes’s handful of voters to make some baffling choices as well as to celebrate some deserving but obscure nominees that the Emmys overlook.
Call it inspired capriciousness or the broken-clock theory; either way, it’s part of the awards’ charm. Let the movie Globes carry the weight of helping set the odds for Oscar season. All the low-stakes TV awards owe you are surprises. Here are a few of those — for better and worse — for 2021, and some TV standouts from last year that got left out.
‘I May Destroy You’
Well, this was a crime. Michaela Coel’s deservedly acclaimed limited series about a rape and its aftermath was one of the most stunning narrative feats not just of the year but maybe the last decade. Not to the Globes, apparently; it was as absent on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s list as it was ubiquitous on critics’ best-of-2020 lists.
‘Emily in Paris’
No, that’s not a typo. Darren Star’s fantasy for Netflix about a young American woman who sweeps into the French luxury marketing business received some harsh reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Explanation, s’il vous plaît? The Golden Globes do like to honor new shows and young talent (the star, Lily Collins, also got an acting nomination). Also, the awards are given out by the H.F.P.A., and, well … I guess “Paris” is in the title?
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/arts/television/golden-globes-tv-snubs.html
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