La 79th edition of the Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Awards, was held on January 10. There was no red carpet or gala as might be expected and the delivery was reduced to a private act in which the winners were read.
After the accusations of corruption and lack of diversity, the Golden Globes have been distributed with great indifference despite the fact that the media have not hesitated to echo the winners. And in the category of Television there has been one indisputable: HBO's 'Succession'
Succession
Succession was the favorite in the television category and did not leave empty handed. The HBO family drama It won not only the Golden Globe for best drama series but also two awards for its protagonists: Sarah Snook, for best supporting actress, and Jeremy Strong for best drama actor.
The series narrates the Roy Family Tribulations, Logan Roy and his four children. The former owns a conglomerate of media and entertainment companies that his four children already dream of inheriting. So the series traces their lives as they contemplate what the future holds once the family patriarch leaves the company."
The fiction of Adam McKay competed in its category with 'Pose', 'The Squid Game', 'The Morning Show' and 'Lupin', but these could do nothing against this consolidated series whose third season, full of surprises and new signings, has left the protagonists in a very complicated situation.
hacks
Hacks was imposed as best comedy of the year ahead of Ted Lasso's favoritism. The series has been leading the tops of the best series of the year for months, but it is not until December 15 when in Spain we have had the opportunity to see it through HBO Max.
Ten chapters make up the first season of the series whose chapters barely reach 25 minutes in length. Created by Lucia Aniello, the series stars two comedians destined to understand each other. Deborah Vance, a monologue diva who puts on a show every night of the year at a Las Vegas casino, is on one side of the plot. Ava Daniels, a young promise of humor whose career was cut short after an unfortunate 'tweet', to the other.
Faced with the possible cancellation of some of her numbers, Deborah Vance, played by Jean Smart, is forced to accept the help of newcomer Ava Daniels, played by Hannah Einbinder. The relationship between them It will be rough at first, but will it get better?
The series that premiered in the United States on May 13, 2021 won three awards at the last Emmy Awards, to which is now added the Golden Globe for best comic or musical series. Will you give it a chance?
The Underground Railroad
Based on the book of the same name From Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead and created for the small screen by Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning director of Moonlight, The Underground Railroad won best miniseries at the Golden Globes.
This Amazon Prime Video miniseries introduces us to Cora (played by Thuso Mbedu), a slave who escapes from the plantation in which he lives and travels through different states thanks to a mysterious underground railway. A concept devised by Whitehead to describe a perfectly organized path that made it easier for slaves to reach their freedom.
And it is that at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, with the help of those who opposed slavery, a secret network to help guide the slaves to the free states of the country. Thus, between 1810 and 1862 this network of "drivers" and "station chiefs", people who guided and people who hid the fugitives in their houses, respectively, it is estimated that around 100.000 people were saved.
In addition to crudely portraying the life of the slaves on the plantations, the commitment to the magical realism to introduce powerful elements that allow building bridges between the past and present of the lives of the American black community.