I’ve truly dreaded Awards season the last few years. God, how much celebration and self-congratulation does the celebrity class need? economically, thanks mostly to Mr. tax-cuts-for-the-rich we’re rapidly polarizing, turning into a nation and society of haves and have-nots. Awards shows are this tendency in microcosm. Winners or losers: nominated or ignored; invited to the event or stuck on the other side of the red carpet. Marie Antoinette would have approved.

Having said this, I’s sort of a shame the Golden Globes itself is more or less kaput. There are much less worthy shows that needed to be axed on general principles. It was unabashedly second-tier and proud of it. They knew their awards were at best Oscar precursors but mostly completely pointless. And the best part: they let the guests drink during the ceremony, like when they threw the Academy awards in hotel ballrooms back in the golden age.