Jodie Fosterhas won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series for her work inTrue Detective: Night Country. This is the iconic actor’s third Golden Globe win (out of more than 10 nominations). She has also won two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award for her exquisite work throughout half a century, so I don’t feel particularly bad in writing this — someone else should’ve won (even fellow nominee Sofía Vergara heckled the actor as she walked to the stage, half-joking that Foster had won too many awards). Specifically,Cristin Milioti ofThe Penguinshould’ve won, but honestly, every other nominee deserved this award more than Foster.
The other nominees in the category were the aforementioned Milioti forThe Penguin,Cate Blanchett forDisclaimer, Sofía Vergara forGriselda, Kate Winslet forThe Regime, and Naomi Watts forFeud: Capote vs. The Swans. Each of them gave fantastic performances of varying degrees. Naomi Watts completely transformed herself as usual, this time playing the magazine editor and socialite Barbara “Babe” Paley in the second season of Ryan Murphy’sFeudanthology series. She was glamorous, witty, and perfectly attuned to the period-specific production.
Griseldais one of the few projects to successfully tap into the dramatic potential of Sofía Vergara, because the actress is so much more than a repetitiveModern Familyjoke about the quality of her English. Kate Winslet, also great in last year’sLee, was regal, intimidating, and sly inThe Regime; the series itself is a mixed bag, but almost everyone agreed that she gave an incredible performance. Cate Blanchett was staggeringly complex in Alfonso Cuarón’s masterful miniseriesDisclaimer, incorporating her usual cold intellect but with a much more wounded, emotional bent.
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13 years before ‘The Penguin,’ Cristin Milioti gave us one of the best episodes of ‘30 Rock,’ and it’s one of her favorites, too.
The biggest upset among all these nominees, though, is Cristin Milioti, whose ingenious performance as Sofia Falcone inThe Penguinwas pointed to as the main highlight in an already great show. Her beautiful, angry, multidimensional character gave Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb a run for his money. While Farrell won Best Actor in a Limited Series for his performance, he was gifted with an incredible makeup department (which he thanked profusely in his acceptance speech). Milioti did not have that to work with, and yet transformed into someone so different from anything we’ve seen before in her career (or on television, frankly).
‘True Detective: Night Country’ Started Great but Became Ridiculous
After two seasons of (sometimes undeserved) criticisms, fans ofTrue Detective’s iconic first season thought that the show had gotten back on track with its wintry fourth season, dubbedNight Country. The very different, snowy setting, the Easter eggs and callbacks to the first season, the wild body horror of the “corpsicle,” and more aspects of the season kept viewers hooked, proclaiming it to be the best narrative since everyone fell in love with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey’s detectives a decade ago.
Things went downhill halfway throughNight Countrythough, something one could predict from increasingly ridiculous subplots and annoying characters. Jodie Foster’s performance as police Chief Liz Danvers becomes pretty one-note, with her hokey accent and dialogue becoming grating by the end of the show. And let’s not even get into the annoying subplot with her stepdaughter.
With its befuddling andridiculous conclusion,True Detective: Night Countrybecame, asForbeswrote, “one of the most disappointing mystery shows ever made,” and Foster contributed to that let-down. So, with all due respect to Jodie Foster (who is brilliant in so many other things),The Penguin’s Cristin Milioti deserved this one.
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