Rogen and Rhea: Forever New Kids

Maybe I’m feeling soft because we’ve been away from the awards show game a few months, or maybe, again, everything that’s happening outside makes me look a little softer at everything inside, but I found a lot to like on the TV side of things this Globes – even in places I didn’t expect to.

The Studio won, both for Seth Rogen’s performance and for Best Comedy. Both of those are wins that feel …good, for lack of a better word. The show made people happy (most of them, anyway, I can’t watch because the ‘comedy’ of studio execs trying to fix things by making them worse is… all too plausible), and it’s full of favourites – not just Rogen and Kathryn Hahn and everyone’s best friend Ike Barinholtz, but beloved guest stars like Sarah Polley and Catherine O’Hara.

It’s not exactly a popularity contest, in the sense of the most beautiful and famous-est people winning, but watching Seth Rogen process in real time does feel like the guy in high school everyone liked winning something:

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A HUGE congrats to Seth Rogen for winning Best Male Actor – Television – Musical/Comedy for The Studio ! #GoldenGlobes

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Then watching him shout out all the department heads on his crew a little while later cements that same opinion:

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The Studio = Best Musical or Comedy Series at the 83rd Annual #GoldenGlobes 👏👏👏

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You smiled, right? Of course you did. You’d be a monster otherwise, because how can you be mad at something that’s clearly made so many people happy? Yes, it’s true Hollywood likes stories about itself, but this one also seems to be made with a lot of affection and community – so even if it doesn’t sustain itself all that much longer, it will feel like a delight for all who loved it. 

It’s partly endearing because Rogen and team are still surprised by it – as he said in a backstage interview, “Yeah we’ve worked hard, but we’ve worked hard on plenty of things people didn’t like”.  

This is the point where you remember that being in the room is the exception rather than the rule. People work for years in this business, mostly on things that don’t come together or don’t wow the audience or don’t make as much of a splash as they hope – and they go back to hoping for another breakthrough, somewhere.

Nowhere was this clearer than watching Rhea Seehorn’s utter shock when she won for Pluribus:

I wanted to leave her entire speech here because of all the turns it takes, each more revealing than the last.

First of all, the bit with Queen Latifah (who also sported a killer green gown – see, I’m going soft tonight!) was super cute, right? She met her at a Koo Koo Roo – an American fast casual chain, I’ve discovered – and it’s implied she was working … so, automatically charming.

Then the note about getting beta blockers (to prevent nerves), also endearing, not to mention very Carol Sturka (Seehorn’s character in Pluribus, which you absolutely should watch, but you will have to push through the first two episodes because, as my partner told me, Vince Gilligan’s screenwriting style basically can be summed up as “Not yet. Be patient”)-coded… and then she goes on to be grateful and humble and very much ‘I can’t believe I’m in this room’.

And then you remind yourself she was constantly lauded and awarded for her role on Better Call Saul, that arguably the greatest showrunner working today built a show not only around her, but where she is effectively the only lead character – and she’s still amazed and awed to be here.

I’m sorry, but it’s nice, okay!? It’s nice when people are able to have a moment to appreciate their at-bats while they’re happening! Also, her custom Louis Vuitton looks very nice but also very uniquely her. I feel like the spec for the look would have involved ‘I want to not be able to tell if I wrinkled it’.

I just liked seeing her be a part of things, and she made it clear that she doesn’t see herself as an insider, even if she is taking pics like this with stars like Ayo:

Rhea Seehorn and Ayo Edebiri at the 2026 Golden Globes https://t.co/YvnZoj3GC6

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It kind of brings to mind Owen Cooper, too, though he won the Emmy in the fall and now, along with his castmates, won the Golden Globe. He looked incredible in this Bottega Veneta look, which I kept thinking was custom though I don’t see any indication that it is. And his speech was charming, but also about as casual as if he’d been given the drama award for at his secondary school, and not the youngest-ever Globe winner in his category.

Which is incredible, that he’s this affectless, and still just sees himself as ‘a kid who’s doing drama’. His next gig, as young Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, comes out later this winter. But  someday he’ll realize, right? How utterly wild it is to have been in this position when he was only15 years old? Someday, not that I don’t think he’s talented and will work a lot, but someday, when things are a bit drier than they are now, he will look at these pictures and just marvel that he was ever in this room, with all these people… and didn’t even break a sweat.

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Owen Cooper and his mom pose with his Golden Globe. 🥹 #GoldenGlobes #AwardsSeason

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LOLOL Look at his mom, doing everything in her power not to say ‘don’t drop it!’

Also, it’s clear here that Cooper knows who Emily Blunt is, and I know The Office is big with the kids, but between the turtleneck and the glasses, do you think he has any idea whatsoever who the big tall guy hugging him is?

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John Krasinski and Emily Blunt congratulate Owen Cooper after his #GoldenGlobes win for Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television. #AwardsSeason

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