Golden Globes Recap: Rose Byrne and Teyana Taylor and Timmy Supreme
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It came true! There were two Golden Globe nominees that seemed so crazily out there, so pie-in-the-sky dreamy, so ain’t no way that I didn’t even allow myself to hope for them. Teyana Taylor is brilliant in One Battle After Another, but voters aren’t usually into difficult women characters, and the movie doesn’t offer her a tidy mom-comes-home conclusion; Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is the performance of the year to me, up there with Cate Blanchett in Tár or Frances McDormand in Nomadland. Both women have been as overlooked as they are brilliant (Taylor as a musician and in A Thousand And One, Byrne in Damages). I shrieked when both women won their trophies! No one usually votes for the deadbeat moms, but a deadbeat dad can1 take home every trophy.
The night’s other big winners were Paul Thomas Anderson2 (screenplay, director, best picture - musical or comedy) and Boring Shakespeare In Love (working title: Hamnet, best picture - drama). Stellan Skarsgård’s supporting actor for Sentimental Value was as surprising as his taking the stage to “Yeah!” by Usher and Lil Jon. Timothée Chalamet continued collecting trophies for Marty Supreme, winning his first Golden Globe. (Still astonishing, really, that he didn’t win for Call Me By Your Name.)
On the TV side … I’m sorry … I’m sort of tickled by the way it’s always Severance’s year … until HBO shakes the table. Succession trumped Severance’s first season, The Pitt bested Severance’s second season. (Speaking of the Apple TV show, People ran a story about “who is Britt Lower’s husband” that conveniently ignored the allegations of sexual harassment and assult against him. At that point, why even write the story?) Adolescence scooped up their usual awards, and there was a surprise win for Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus.
Nothing has been more important to the Golden Globes rebrand than host Nikki Glaser.3 She is the best emcee in the business right now: she actually likes movies and TV as much as she likes to rib them, celebrities and corporations (CBS and Bari Weiss) are equal-opportunity
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