Golden Globes Analysis: The CBS Telecast May Have Gotten Mixed Reviews But The Credible Wins From ‘Oppenheimer’ To ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ Pay Off For The Revamped Group

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A quick perusal of the reviews indicated tv critics weren’t turned on by what they saw in CBS’s new incarnation of the Golden Globes.

Host Jo Koy in particular took some heavy criticism for a generally unfunny and unsuccessful turn in a performance hovering around Ricky Gervais-insult level material but never really getting there.

I can’t really speak to how they looked on the tube, but I can say it was fun in the room and the results as they count in the race towards Oscar can only be considered as extremely significant, a collection of winners without a single embarrassment between them.

That alone is a triumph considering the history. And as for the return of the Globes themselves (under new management that included Penske Media Corporation, parent company of Deadline) it felt like I was in some kind of time machine thrust back to 2018 , (pre-pandemic, pre-scandal, pre-strikes, pre-implosion), that had taken me back to a Globes show where the audience is constantly mingling and talking amongst themselves, where nobody really takes any of it seriously, and where it was still a good time, something actually living up to the claim of being “Hollywood’s party of the year”.