An American Reckoning at the Golden Globes

If this were a normal year, Hollywood’s awards season would already be over.

This being the opposite of a normal year, however, the Golden Globes have only just aired, and the glitterati of TV and film Zoomed in from their homes, wearing everything from haute couture to homey sweatshirts. One winner, —the first Asian woman to win the Globe for best director—toasted the camera with a . No trophies were handed out; they’d be delivered safely at a later date. No A-listers were seen mingling or milling about the ballroom at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel. Technical difficulties abounded, and early in the ceremony, three members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the voting the organization’s ethical issues (namely, that it ) while standing stiffly onstage and reading from the teleprompter like glass-eyed automatons. A party, this was not.