TV Shmeevee
The Golden Globes have always been about recognizing the next big thing, so the nominations doled out yesterday, weren’t really that surprising. There were a couple of head-scratching omissions (particularly Deadwood) since HBO seems to have the Hollywood Foreign Press in its pocket. For the most part however, there was really an inherent lack of originality in the nominations. Who didn’t expect to see My Name is Earl and Everybody Hates Chris nominated? Why not really be bold and give a nomination to Jamie Pressley of Earl or Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother? And did the HFPA not see how much Desperate Housewives has declined this year? Absolutely, Eva Longoria deserved her nomination, but some of the other acting nods (ahem, Teri Hatcher), I’m not so sure about.Commander in Chief has Golden Globes written all over it—two major film stars moving to television? And they both got nominations. Same thing with Glenn Close for The Shield. Patrick Dempsey gets nominated for Grey’s Anatomy, but Ellen Pombeo doesn’t? Why not try and be original and recognize the most fascinating actors on that show—Chandra Wilson or T.R. Knight? And nominating Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) instead of Ian McShane, Denis Leary, Anthony LaPaglia, James Spader, or William Fichtner? Please! I think Miller’s incredibly talented, but this award’s not about who has the most potential—it’s about Best Performance—and he’s not that. These aren’t embarrassingly bad nominations, but the Globes sometimes can be a real barometer of quality—just not this year.
posted by cinegod @ 7:45 AM
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