The Golden Globe nominations are in and, as predicted, they’re not great.

by Therese Odell, posted in watch this

The Golden Globes announced their nominees this morning and there is some bulllllllllshit in here. (Forgive the formatting here — this was a cut and paste job because there’s SO MUCH TO GET TO TODAY.)

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

  • BIG LITTLE LIES
  • THE CROWN
  • KILLING EVE
  • THE MORNING SHOW
  • SUCCESSION

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

  • JENNIFER ANISTON – THE MORNING SHOW
  • OLIVIA COLMAN – THE CROWN
  • JODIE COMER – KILLING EVE
  • NICOLE KIDMAN – BIG LITTLE LIES
  • REESE WITHERSPOON – BIG LITTLE LIES

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

  • BRIAN COX – SUCCESSION
  • KIT HARINGTON – GAME OF THRONES
  • RAMI MALEK – MR. ROBOT
  • TOBIAS MENZIES – THE CROWN
  • BILLY PORTER – POSE

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY

  • BARRY
  • FLEABAG
  • THE KOMINSKY METHOD
  • THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL
  • THE POLITICIAN

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY

  • CHRISTINA APPLEGATE – DEAD TO ME
  • RACHEL BROSNAHAN – THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL
  • KIRSTEN DUNST – ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
  • NATASHA LYONNE – RUSSIAN DOLL
  • PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE – FLEABAG

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – MUSICAL OR COMEDY

  • MICHAEL DOUGLAS – THE KOMINSKY METHOD
  • BILL HADER – BARRY
  • BEN PLATT – THE POLITICIAN
  • PAUL RUDD – LIVING WITH YOURSELF
  • RAMY YOUSSEF – RAMY

BEST TELEVISION LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

  • CATCH-22
  • CHERNOBYL
  • FOSSE/VERDON
  • THE LOUDEST VOICE
  • UNBELIEVABLE

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

  • KAITLYN DEVER – UNBELIEVABLE
  • JOEY KING – THE ACT
  • HELEN MIRREN – CATHERINE THE GREAT
  • MERRITT WEVER – UNBELIEVABLE
  • MICHELLE WILLIAMS – FOSSE/VERDON

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

  • CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT – CATCH-22
  • SACHA BARON COHEN – THE SPY
  • RUSSELL CROWE – THE LOUDEST VOICE
  • JARED HARRIS – CHERNOBYL
  • SAM ROCKWELL – FOSSE/VERDON

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

  • PATRICIA ARQUETTE -THE ACT
  • HELENA BONHAM CARTER – THE CROWN
  • TONI COLLETTE – UNBELIEVABLE
  • MERYL STREEP – BIG LITTLE LIES
  • EMILY WATSON – CHERNOBYL

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

  • ALAN ARKIN – THE KOMINSKY METHOD
  • KIERAN CULKIN – SUCCESSION
  • ANDREW SCOTT – FLEABAG
  • STELLAN SKARSGÅRD – CHERNOBYL
  • HENRY WINKLER – BARRY

Look. I’m not going to spend a lot of time screaming about this because the Golden Globes are stupid and should be ignored. But where the HELL is Russian Doll? What about Veep? Where’s When They See Us? You’re going to give nominations to The Loudest Voice in the Room but not When They See Us? Where is Schitt’s Creek? Or Watchmen, for fuck’s sake? All I’m saying is that this is a VERY white list. Very white. So white. The whitest.

I MEAN, Big Little Lies? The Politician? The Kominsky Method? ARE YOU SURE? ARE YOU VERY SURE?

Also, I’ve bitched about this before but how are you going to compare Henry Winkler’s performance in Barry to Stellen Skarsgard’s in Chernobyl? Come on now.

The Critics Choice nominees also came out and it’s better — in large part because they allow more than five nominees in the categories — but Russian Doll STILL gets snubbed which is some Grade A nonsense.

Bill Hemmer is your new Shep Smith.

Y’all, Amy Sedaris was on The Mandalorian. I won’t say much more for fear of spoiling something, but if you’d like to see more, here you go.

Netflix’s Twitter account created some chaos on Twitter this weekend, and y’all nasty.

Manifest is returning soon enough. Here’s what we know about the upcoming season of the most ridiculous show on network TV. Wake me up when CGI wolves are involved.

Please stop calling this man’s office:

 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus regrets Elaine’s wardrobe on Seinfeld, but as a woman who lived through the 90s, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED ABOUT, HONEY.

An update on Mrs. Fletcher: the creator and star are all for a second season if HBO is up for it.

STEVE HARVEY. DAMMIT.

Fox News’ Pete Hegseth was banned from Twitter after he posted the Pensacola shooter’s manifesto. This is an interesting story, because on the one hand, the manifesto is newsworthy, as there is some question (but not really) about whether this was terrorism or not. On the other hand, it is spreading a terrorist manifesto, even if it was done so in a critical way. Social media is hard!

Simon Cowell is lawyering up. Gee, why?

I can understand talking shit about the Harry Potter movies, but DO NOT SPEAK ILL OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS, MADAM.

For you old school Real Housewives of Beverly Hills viewers: The Sultan will not be marrying his younger girlfriend, Shiva, after all.

I’m just going to leave this here. If you know, you know.

Please do not threaten Tommen.

Goddammit, Chris Soules, go away. Absolutely not, dude.

Oh, Henry Thomas, come on.

Get some help, Amanda Detmer.

Impeachment Corner!

It’s a super busy day today: the House Judiciary Committee is holding (maybe) its final hearing on the Ukrainian affair as I type this. They are hearing from the Republican and Democratic counsels for the Intelligence Committee, the lawyers who helped conduct the hearings last month.

I will have more to say about this tomorrow once the hearing concludes, but basically, this is just another chance to tell a cohesive story about what happened before the Judiciary Committee completes the articles of impeachment and sends them to the House for a vote. President Chickenshit was invited to participate in this hearing and defend himself but he’s too busy, trapped in a bathroom somewhere, flushing the toilet over and over again.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said this “maybe” the final hearing and noted that while the vote schedule hasn’t been set, it’s possible they could vote on impeachment by Thursday or Friday.

parks-and-rec-excited

I’m guessing it won’t happen until next week, but STAY TUNED.

DUELING GIULIANI REPORTS! This is a long article about Rudy Giuliani and his role in leading President Dum-Dum to impeachment. And here the Washington Post reports that Attorney General Bill Barr warned President Don’t Tell Me What to Do that Giuliani was a liability for the White House and that he wasn’t being well-served by America’s (Dumbest) Mayor. Could this be the famous “animated conversation” that Barr and President Screamy was having a few weeks ago? Or was it related to the next item:

The Justice Department’s Inspector General released a 400-page report on the start of the Russia investigation — you know, the one that was launched by the Deep State to take down Then-Candidate Fraudster — and it found that whaddya know, there was “no documentary or testimonial evidence” of political bias, and the FBI had an “authorized purpose” to launch the investigation. The Inspector-General did find that there was some sloppiness in individual agents’ actions but that there was no grand conspiracy. Attorney General Bill Barr and President QAnon are having a rough day.

MORE TOMORROW, once we have our hands around today’s events.

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendar

  • The Boys returns on Amazon in 2020.
  • Homeland will return for its final season on February 9.

R.I.P.

Caroll Spinney, Better known as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. This one hurts.

René Auberjonois, Actor known for his roles in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Boston Legal, and for me, his most memorable role, Benson

Rob Leibman, Tony-winning actor for Angels in America, and Rachel’s father on Friends, among many other roles

Robert Walker Jr., Actor in a number of TV series, including Star Trek, Dallas, The Fall Guy, and The Six Million Dollar Man

Claude Earl Jones, Actor in a number of movies and TV series, including Bride of Re-Animator, Seinfeld and Dallas

Denise D’Ascenzo, An Emmy-winning anchor for WFSB in Connecticut

Juice WRLD, Rapper

Zaza Urushadze, Georgian filmmaker

WATCH THIS

Batwoman: Kate and Kara seek out Bruce Wayne in the “Crisis” crossover and fall finale. 7 p.m., The CW

Black Lightning: The Pierce family fears for Jennifer’s life in the “Crisis” crossover and fall finale. 8 p.m., The CW

Beat Shazam: A holiday version of the Name That Tune rip-off. 7 p.m., Fox

Impeachment hearing: The last of the House hearings on impeachment before they vote. 8 a.m., all news channels

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Timothée Chalamet, Ashley Graham, Bong Joon Ho, Summer Walker
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Quentin Tarantino, Aisling Bea, Michael Lewis, Coady Willis
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Saoirse Ronan, Tom Brokaw
  • The Late Late Show with James Corden: Billie Eilish, Ali Wong, guest host Alicia Keys
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Jack Black, Michelle Wolf, Allen Stone
  • The Daily Show: Kelly Marie Tran
  • Conan: Laurence Fishburne
  • Lights Out with David Spade: Rick Ingraham, Brendan Schaub, Megan Gailey
  • Watch What Happens Live: Elizabeth Hurley, Stephen Dorff
  • A Little Late with Lily Singh: Tony Shalhoub, Ne-Yo
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(new)		 The Good Doctor
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CBS The Neighbor-hood
(new)		 Bob Hearts Abishola
(new)		 All Rise
(new)		 Bull
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CW Batwoman
(new)		 Black Lightning
(new)		 Local
FOX Beat Shazam
(new)		 The Moodys
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