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What we’re watching tonight: Brooklyn Nine Nine on TV2

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TVNZ heard the nation’s cry and last week, after Rebel Wilson’s Super Fun Night at 8.30pm, New Zealand was treated to the first episode of Brooklyn Nine Nine at 9pm.

The award-winning sitcom follows a the (fictional) 99th precinct’s team of detectives and deadpanned faced captain, boasting an excellent cast great writing.

Tonight’s episode sees a tardy Peralta (Andy Samberg) assigned to a graffiti case he thinks is below him by Captain Holt (Andre Braugher). When the suspect happens to be the Deputy Commissioner’s smartarse son, Peralta makes it his mission to end him. Not really, just go watch it, okay?

Also, Gina’s (Chelsea Peretti) psychic friend visits the precinct and gets into Boyles’ (Joe Lo Truglio) head which yields hilarious moments. Especially when pitted against the scepticism (read as outright mockery) from Detectives Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) and Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero). Terry Crews as Sargeant Terence ‘Terry’ Jeffords is funny as ever.

You can catch it tonight at 9pm on TV2 and we suggest you do because not only is it hilarious and you don’t want to miss out on a cure for your Monday blues, but you won’t be able to catch it on demand. But trust me, you don’t want to miss an episode- because we’ll sick Rosa on you. And you definitely don’t want that.

AWARDS SEASON™ Shenanigans: 71st Golden Globes Recap

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Sooooo Golden Globes. Three hours of celebrities locked in a room with alcohol and a deadline. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? If you followed us on Twitter, hopefully you enjoyed it, after my live stream fail that is. I missed the opening monologue and the first few awards, but thanks to the internet we have the best joke of the night in .gif form:

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Tina and Amy knocked it out of the Parks and REC! See what I did there? Also amazeballs from the hosting duo was when Amy cross-dressed as Tina’s adult son Randy from a previous relationship, searching for his biological father… not gonna lie, Randy is a hottie. Case in point:

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Out of all twenty-four awards of the night, I correctly picked ten winners. Ten out of 24! A whopping 42% pass (fail?) rate. Actually this is quite on par with how I’ve normally done with my picks in the past few years, given how random the Golden Globes seem to be both in terms of nominees-per-category and the winners themselves.

12 Years A Slave and American Hustle were leading the nominations with seven each heading into the ceremony, and American Hustle came out way better off, winning Best Picture - Comedy or Musical as well as both Best and Supporting Actress for Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence respectively.

However, 12 Years A Slave did win Best Motion Picture - Drama, making history as the first film directed by an African American director (Steve McQueen) to win a Golden Globe in the award’s history.

Also happy that Brooklyn Nine-Nine won Best Comedy, hopefully it’ll be on NZ television screens soon because the general public are really missing out here. Andy Samberg’s speech was okay, I guess, ugh. Lol. But you know what else we’re really missing out on? Orphan Black.

Don’t even get me STARTED about Robin Wright winning Best Television Actress for House of Cards (yes apparently it’s really good blah blah blah) instead of Tatiana Maslany for playing seven different women to the point where you think about a character and wonder why TMas is talking about her when you remember that, oh wait - TMas played ALL OF THEM.

RUDE, HFPA, RUDE.

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Unexpected winners of the night were perhaps Jacqueline Bisset, who won Best Supporting Actress in a Series/Mini-Series/TV Movie. I missed her acceptance speech while vainly attemping to retrieve my live stream, but it sounded like she was off the trolley! Already! Sat at the back with a crate of champers, you probably wouldn’t have expected to win either.

Other wins I’m happy with: Alfonso Cuaron for Best Director, with Gravity. Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street - ten nominations and only two wins! (The first one was for The Aviator back in 2005.) Hopefully this means we are well on track for an Oscar! I am ready Academy Awards, come at me!

(Side note: Cate Blanchett is great and I’m sure Blue Jasmine is also great so congrats to her for winning and all that, but if Kate Winslet had won her category it would’ve meant that Leo would’ve presented her with her Golden Globe and those two should get married already…)

What did y’all think? Dragged on too long? Nominees robbed or winners well deserved? Think it’ll be an accurate predictor for the Academy Awards in March?

Full list of winners:

MOVIES
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Amy Adams, American Hustle
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Director, Motion Picture: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: American Hustle
Best Motion Picture, Drama: 12 Years a Slave
Best Original Score, Motion Picture: Alex Ebert, All Is Lost
Best Original Song, Motion Picture: U2, “Ordinary Love,” Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Animated Feature Film: Frozen

TELEVISION:
Best Actress, TV Series, Comedy or Musical: Amy Poehler, Parks & Recreation
Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical: Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama: Robin Wright, House of Cards
Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Best TV Series, Drama: Breaking Bad
Best TV Series, Comedy: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Best TV Mini-Series or Movie: Behind the Candelabra
Best Actress, TV Movie or Miniseries: Elisabeth Moss, Top of the Lake
Best Actor, TV Miniseries or Movie: Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series, Miniseries, Motion Picture Made for Television: Jon Voight, Ray Donovan
Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Miniseries, Motion Picture Made for Television: Jacqueline Bisset, Dancing on the Edge

AWARDS SEASON™ Shenanigans: Golden Globes Are on Monday!

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YOU GUYS, THE GOLDEN GLOBES ARE ON MONDAY*. Are you ready for the funner, less pretentious younger sibling of the Oscars, plus Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting? It’s a win win for everyone who has three-to-five hours to spend in front of their TV on a weekday.

So, Kyle Buchanan and Margaret Lyons over at Vulture have done their own dissection and run-down of who they think should win their respective categories, in a way more articulate and hilarious way than I ever could. I think they have a drinking game brewing in the background, you guys. Something to consider, perhaps…?

On the whole, their favourites are my favourites. Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, and by dear GOD Leonardo “STILL No Oscar?!” DiCaprio. The Globes are a good indicator for future Oscar winners, generally, so if Leo can bag one here… maybe??? Oscars???

The only point of contention I have with their opinion (which is not wrong because an opinion cannot be wrong apart from this one which is wrong) is for Best Actor for Comedy:

Best Actor, TV Series Comedy
Jason Bateman, Arrested Development
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Michael J. Fox, The Michael J. Fox Show
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Everyone in this category except Samberg has already won a Golden Globe, and Don Cheadle and Michael J. Fox have each won two. Parsons probably does the most comedic heavy-lifting, and Fox has the sentimental juju (don’t be surprised if he wins), but let’s go with Andy Samberg for this one. Not because he’s so amazing on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (the show’s getting there, but slowly), but because he seems like the most likely to give a funny and unique acceptance speech.

This is probably the last category I thought I’d care about so much, but Andy Samberg is so NOT amazing on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He’s probably the weakest link there, surrounded by the likes of Chelsea Perretti and Andre “Deadpan” Braugher. Although, it’s true, as acceptance speeches go, his would probably be one of the ones that would make the LOL in JawkwardLOL not silent.

And *drumroll* the category that I am most anticipating:

Best Actress in a TV Drama

Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife 

Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black
Kerry Washington, Scandal
Robin Wright, House of Cards

Please dear God let Tatiana Maslany win this one. Orphan Black deserves a much higher profile, and sci-fi shows have never had a chance with the Emmys. Make it so!

Orphan Black Orphan Black Orphan Black! This show is so amazing, and if Tatiana Maslany does not win… HFPA you’re doing it wrong.

Overall, the film category seems a lot more clear cut than the television category, which seems to be a mixed bag both in terms of HOW the nominees were grouped and then WHO out of those respective groups should win. Possibly because movies only take about two hours of your time on a weekend, while television shows generally require you to invest years of your life and hundreds of dollars on medication for the stress ulcers and anxiety and up-and-down emotion they give you each week? Who knows.

You can check out the full article here. Who else is excited for red carpet fun tiemz?! I haven’t sat down to watch the Globes in a very very long time but I will have the alcohols at the ready methinks.

*Monday because we live in New Zealand! More specifically, 2pm Monday.