- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 31, 1944
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It didn’t take long for the Globes to fall prey to the same types of snafus and stumbles we’ve all experienced in the Video Chat Era. ... The telecast was also filled with fantastically awkward and therefore entertaining reaction shots. ... We also had some pretty cool video moments. ... As for the actual awards: There were no great shocks, though it was a definite upset when Andra Day won (deservedly so) for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” and a bit of a surprise, at least to Jodie Foster, when she won best supporting actress for “The Mauritanian.”
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Fey and Poehler, on different coasts but framed as if on the same stage, delivered their one-liners with their usual warmth, even if the goofs on the likes of Big Red Carpet (like Big Pharma) and “The Prom” were forgettable. ... During Fey and Poehler’s opening bit, the producers flashed to the Zoom feeds of the subjects of many of their jokes — we saw Nicole Kidman having to laugh at a joke about her wig and coats in “The Undoing,” for example, a few seconds after the punchline due to a lag. It was just clunky, lacking the good-spiritedness of seeing famous people laughing at themselves from the audience.
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What was never in question was the wisdom of having Fey and Poehler back as hosts. ... As a party, it was a Zoom call. ... Attempts to make nominees seem as if they were in a shared space, a party space, chatting away with one another as the telecast went to commercial breaks, fell flat.
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A lot of the Golden Globes was indeed messy this year, but not necessarily the good kind of messy. ... The electricity usually generated between the pair [Fey and Poehler] and their audience when everyone’s in the same ballroom was notably absent, but nothing about their performance was cringey or embarrassing, which is the bar we have now set for entirely or semi-virtual award shows.
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Like a lot of our mediated experiences over the last year, the night begged to be rated on a curve. It was more often fun in a “Good for them for giving it a shot” way. Even with living-room champagne, teleconferencing is still teleconferencing. ... The association acknowledged the racial issue in a perfunctory, we-have-work-to-do statement from the stage. It addressed the self-dealing charges not at all. ... This disjointed version of a usually carefree production felt like it was ailing.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 20
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Mixed: 3 out of 20
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Negative: 14 out of 20
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Mar 3, 2021lol did anyone actually watch it this year? bring back ricky G pretty please.
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Mar 9, 2021
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Mar 7, 2021Why is this crap still on? Please cancel. A bunch of freeloaders but apparently that sums up most of LA