There are so many series produced that there are hardly any productions that unite the public today. Hundreds and hundreds. But, when looking at the Golden Globes winners, one gets a peculiar impression: that the members of the foreign press association in Hollywood (or the majority of them) only saw three series in 2023. This is the only way to explain the extraordinary diversity of stories on television and how small the circle of winners is, led by Succession with four statuettes.
There were two possibilities in these Golden Globes. Voters could ignore Succession for its final season. This story about power based on the rivalries and quarrels of the Roys, encouraged by a despotic and cruel patriarch played by Brian Cox, had already been awarded as the best drama series in 2022 and 2022. The last episodes had also been issued in spring, so perhaps voting for it seemed very outdated to them. Or, instead, they could let it sweep the ceremony and thus recognize it as one of the best series on television. They opted for the second.
The HBO series available on HBO Max won four awards: drama series, actress for Sarah Snook, actor for Kieran Culkin and supporting role for Matthew Macfadyen. The creative maneuver of killing a key character in the final stretch worked for Jesse Armstrong to give the actors more material than ever to show off. You only have to remember the episode of the death in question or the subsequent funeral to understand the three interpretive awards.
With this victory for best television drama, Succession also becomes the series most awarded by the Golden Globes in this key category, an honor it shares with Mad Men and The X-Files. In this edition, its rivals were 1923, The Crown , The Diplomat, The Morning Show and The Last of Us, HBO’s audience phenomenon in 2023, which had to leave empty-handed.
In 2023, despite the critical obsession it had become, The Bear had to settle for only the Golden Globe for Jeremy Allen White for best comedy actor. Thanks to the second season, however, it has established itself as one of the series of the moment with three awards: best comedy, Ayo Edebiri as best actress and again White, also known as Rosalia’s current partner, for best actor.
Created by Christopher Storer and available in Spain through Disney, The Bear narrates the tension in the kitchen of the gourmet sandwich restaurant that Carmen, a promising chef, inherits after her brother’s suicide. In the second season, the dynamics between the kitchens were a priori better greased, but the chefs had to face a new situation: the opening of a new restaurant with the intention of obtaining a Michelin star and, above all, the pressure to prove that they are worthy of the high standards. kitchen.
The Bear, with its tone much closer to drama than comedy, beat Just Murders in the Building, Ted Lasso, Barry, Jury Duty and Abbott School, last year’s winner.
Danny is at a critical moment in his existence when he is about to collide with Amy in the parking lot of a shopping center. She is overwhelmed by a business contract that she must close and that she has been working on for years. When they insult each other from their respective cars, without knowing each other at all, they start a chase. And, after that first confrontation, they both make a decision: to make each other’s lives impossible to pay off all their personal frustrations with a stranger.
Lee Sung Jin offered one of the most original premises of recent television, bringing out humor and tension in each episode, and the Golden Globes rewarded both the effort and the results: Bronca took the award for best miniseries against The Light that you can’t see, Everybody Loves Daisy Jones, Fargo, Fellow Travelers and Cooking with Chemistry, and Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, until now better known for her role as a stand-up comedian, took the awards for best actor and best actress in a miniseries . It can be seen on Netflix.
And you can also see the best supporting television performance on Netflix, a category where drama, comedy and miniseries actors mix. Elizabeth Debicki, who played Diana of Wales in the final two seasons of The Crown, won the Golden Globe for embodying the final days of the Princess of Wales. She took the award from Julia Garner, who beat her in the same category last year for Ozark.
