The Golden Globes Are Irrelevant; Sunday’s Awards Show May Not Be

Seth Meyers (Credit: Getty/Paul Morigi) Sunday, the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony will bow on NBC and, God, it seems so difficult to care at the moment. Paling in comparison to events in the political sphere coming at us at ever-increasing speed, the contest over who will take home the honors handed out by the collection of writers, junket lingerers and open-bar loiterers that is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association seems even more irrelevant and hollow than it has in recent years. Sure, if the 2018 edition of the awards offered a genuine and well-thought-out slate of contestants, the Golden Globes might have arrived as a welcome distraction from our grindingly manic news feeds — but it does not. “Get Out” is slated in the Best Motion Picture – Comedy category while the “Big Sick” was left on the outside looking in.