New York Daily News

Chilly reception for TV stalwarts

- DAVID HINCKLEY TV CRITIC

No “Sons of Anarchy”? No “Mad Men”? No “Modern Family”? No “Boardwalk Empire”? Andno “The Walking Dead”?!

Golden Globes voters often nominate hip and a head-of-the-curve TV shows—but this year, they ignored a whole freeway of them.

Zero nomination­s for “Sons of Anarchy” —not even for its stars Charlie Hunnam or Katey Sagal, who won a best actress Globe in 2011—is absurd.

Actress nominees Lena Dunham (“Girls”) and Gina Ro- driguez (“Jane the Virgin”) are perfectly good. But they didn’t do the work Sagal did this year —or that Tatiana Maslany did againin “Orphan Black.”

Similarly, the Hollywood Foreign Press Associatio­n nominators snubbed “Mad Men” as best drama, presumably because they just take it for granted.

Yet they gave a best-drama slot to another show, “House of Cards,” that has already faded more than “Mad Men” ever will.

And how could Globe voters skip Jon Hamm from “Mad Men” as best actor and honor Kevin Spacey from “House of Cards”? Hamm simply did better work.

“Boardwalk Empire” also deserved a best-drama nomination, more than “Cards,” “The Affair” or “The Good Wife”— though, speaking of affairs, the Globes do seem to have one with the Julianna Margulies series.

And speaking of “Boardwalk,” Steve Buscemi and Kelly Macdonald deserved acting nomination­s for their last-go-round.

And ignoring a still-superior “Modern Family” also makes voters look like the distracted socialite of a 1930s movie, who turns to the rest of thegroup and announces, “Dahling, I’m bored.”

 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States