What’s on TV
77TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES 8 p.m. on NBC. Netflix will likely be the big winner at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards. The streaming giant has 34 nods in total: “Marriage Story,” starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, received six alone, the most of any movie. Among the other contenders are “1917,” “The Irishman” and “The Joker,” for best drama, and “Dolemite Is My Name,” “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and “Rocketman” for best musical or comedy. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that produces the Globes, faced a backlash for excluding women in several major categories, including best director and motion picture. The best drama series category includes nominations for “The Morning Show,” “Big Little Lies” and “Killing Eve,” while “Fleabag,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Barry” will compete for best comedy series. Ricky Gervais returns to host for the fifth time, which he says will be his last. Expect plenty of jabs.
GOD FRIENDED ME 8 p.m. on CBS. This feel-good drama series follows Miles (Brandon Micheal Hall), a reluctant hero who meets and helps New Yorkers in need through a mysterious Facebook account called God. In this midseason premiere, Miles meets a Holocaust survivor who wants to know whether his sister is still alive. And, in a twist, Joy (Jessica Lu) has a hunch that all of the people Miles has been helping are clients of the same insurance company.
TOLKIEN (2019) 8 p.m. on HBO; stream on HBO platforms. Nicholas Hoult stars as J.R.R. Tolkien in this biopic about the writer of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.” The film chronicles Tolkien’s early days as a young orphan in Birmingham, England, who bonds with three friends and forms a fellowship. He finds love at his boardinghouse, enrolls at Oxford and enlists in the army during World War I, and, all throughout, shares his fascination with language. The film received mixed reviews. Critics praised the performances but said the movie could do with more imagination and less obvious nods to Tolkien’s legacy.
What’s Streaming
SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) Stream on Amazon; rent on Google Play, Vudu or YouTube. For a wildly refreshing, albeit puzzling, take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, look no further than Guy Ritchie’s action-packed adventure. This Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) cracks a conspiracy involving a villain (Mark Strong) who comes back from the dead and an underground magical fraternity not just with his inquisitive mind, but with his bare knuckles and long list of weapons. Jude Law plays Holmes’s trusty partner, John Watson, while Rachel McAdams plays a seductive thief and Holmes’s love interest. The film’s visual style was met with some head-scratching, but Downey Jr. took home a Golden Globe for his role. “There are worse things than loutish, laddish cool,” A.O. Scott wrote in his New York Times review. “As a series of poses and stunts, ‘Sherlock Holmes’ is intermittently diverting.”
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