Amazon, ‘Transparent’ Make History at Golden Globes

Variety ^ | 1/11/15 | Jenelle Riley

[mykroar]

No, I didn't watch the globes (I don't watch any of the award nonsense), but considering the source material I'd say this win is about as unexpected and the sun rising this morning.

[agere_contra]

A transnormative show won an award.

Shocker.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Let me be clear. I dedicated my peaceful night’s rest to the transgender community.

[Rummyfan]

“I would like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community. Thank you for your inspiration, thank you for your patience and thank you for letting us be a part of the change.”

I guess the homposexuals and lesbian communities have been mined for all the entertainment possible. Now, it's on to the transgenders. Next polyamory? Bestiality? Cropophilia?

[Bob]

The transgender “community” can go screw itself as far as I’m concerned. Oh, wait.... maybe they literally can.

[Rummyfan]

Backstage, Soloway spoke about how her own parent came out as trans three years ago. “It was a lot,” she admitted. “A big announcement. And my first thought was, ‘I love you, I’m proud of you, thank you for being you and telling me who you are.’ My second thought, a couple moments later, was, ‘I think i have a TV show.'”

Who the f**k thinks like that????

[NonValueAdded]

Ah, those Golden Globes ... ever notice how the Sag Awards follow?

[Tax-chick]

A crazy person who was (through no fault of her own) brought up by a crazy person. Think of Lena Dunham: these are multigenerational nutcase families.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[VanDeKoik]

The “show” is just propaganda with pauses for soft-core porn.

[Sherman Logan]

Gender dysphoria is a form of the broader disorder of body dysphoria. Which involves things like people who want their leg cut off because they don’t believe it belongs to them.

I’m perfectly willing to consider the possibility that some transgender people are born that way, but the notion that none of them are disordered, unlike every other type of dysphoria, seems really, really odd.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Jeffrey Tambor is a terrific actor. It’s too bad he got all caught up in this transgender crap.

[TalBlack]

“But to have the public embracing us the way it has is overwhelming.”

Is this ass sure all of this embracing is going on? I knew NOTHING of this show until this moment.

[IronJack]

And now, the award for Best Promotion of Mental Illness, Perversion, or Deviancy Using Popular Media goes to ...

[ExTxMarine]

This won for one reason, and one reason only!

TO MAKE A POLITICAL AND SOCIETAL STATEMENT!!!

Jeffery Tambor is one of the worst actors, except in a comedy, and that is a stretch, in my opinion! The degradation of the nuclear family is the one thing that Hollywood will honor and praise and award, year in and year out!

[Katya]

I watched the whole season of this show.. frankly, it’s great. It doesn’t actually celebrate what you think... in fact, it focuses on the selfishness within a family that breeds all sorts of long-term disfunction... particularly in the lives of the adult children. The parenting model of the anything goes 70’s, reflected in the lives of a very liberal jewish family. It may not be everyones cup of tea, but it’s very revealing.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Tambor is a very good actor. Have you seen the Al Pacino movie ‘...And Justice for All’? He plays an attorney whose client went out an murdered again after he got the man off on a technicality. He felt so guilty that he snapped and wound up being hospitalized after throwing plates down the hallway in the courthouse. He was very believable.

[SunkenCiv]

Gosh, maybe for its next trick Amazon will turn a profit.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I like Jeffrey Tambor a lot but I haven’t been able to see it because I don’t have Amazon.

What was going on with the scene in which he was in the Ladies Room? I’ve heard about it and it’s supposed to be uncomfortable to watch.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I like Jeffrey Tambor a lot but I haven’t been able to see it because I don’t have Amazon.

What was going on with the scene in which he was in the Ladies Room? I’ve heard about it and it’s supposed to be uncomfortable to watch.

I especially like his voice. I think it’s both sexy AND soothing,and I think he’s awfully cute.