For years, the Golden Globes were the tipsy cousin of awards shows. You’d see them for a few hours once a year, they’d get a little too drunk and a little too loud, but they never overstayed their welcome, and you’d go home with a good story if nothing else. But after it emerged in 2021 that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was allegedly corrupt and racist as well as the target of frequent and often deserved mockery, the organization vowed to reform both its membership and its ways. (The HFPA was officially dissolved last year, although several winners at last night’s awards thanked the group anyway.) Sunday’s broadcast was meant to be the debut of the new, improved Globes, and while they might have been marginally more respectable, they were also something the show’s former incarnation never was: boring.
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