improbable fiction

Very recently the dear old Hollywood Foreign Press Association released the nominations for the Golden Globes. Now, usually I am all about the movies, and don’t get me wrong, I am THRILLED to see my dear, sweet, beautiful Matt Damon nominated TWICE! But there is something more pressing than the fact that Coraline should beat UP.

GLEE, one of my favorite new shows, has been nominated for FOUR awards. FOUR. A while ago, when Glee first debuted, I posted a little blog about why you should be watching it. (You can find that post here.) Now, that post was after viewing one episode, when the show was new to all of our minds. It was fresh! Exciting! A MUSICAL! And I loved it. After viewing the entire first half of the first season (the show didn’t think it was going to do well so they only filmed 13 episodes, ergo last week was the last of this half of the first season) I have my “complaints” mainly revolving around a boring baby storyline, but now that they have gotten all of that sorted out (sort of) I just sit alone, in my room, crying, begging it to come back.

In case you don’t know the plot line, allow me to give you a quick summary. Mr. Shuester is the high school Spanish teacher who takes over the school’s glee club. The glee club diva (and lead female vocal) that everyone loves to hate is Rachel Berry, who loves Finn, the male vocal lead. But Finn has a girlfriend, Quinn, who was the star of the cheer-leading squad (led by the ruthless Sue Sylvester) until she got knocked up by the hottie Puck, Finn’s best friend. But Puck and Quinn told everyone the baby daddy was Finn. The ongoing plot of the first half of the first season is getting enough people to join the glee club so they can go to sectionals.

Wow. Did you follow that? No? Just go watch the show. So the Golden Globes realized how awesome this show is, and nominated Glee for four awards:

Best Television Series- Comedy or Musical

Best performance by an actress in a television series- comedy or musical

Lea Michele- Rachel Berry

Best performance by an actor in a television series- comedy or musical

Matthew Morrison- Will Shuester

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series, or motion picture made for television

Jane Lynch- Sue Sylvester

Now, do I think Glee will come in and sweep out all the awards? No I do not. Yes, I would love for them to take them all, but I have my reservations. Also nominated for best series is that horrible 30 Rock show, and for some unknown reason the awards people love it. Why? I have no idea. I once watched two episodes so I could make a fair judgment and I disliked it so much I couldn’t even tell you what the episodes were about.

Next– Matthew Morrison. I just feel like whenever I want something to win at an awards show, it doesn’t. I mean, John Cryer over Neil Patrick Harris? Insanity. (Speaking of which, Neil is nominated! yay!) I don’t know if Glee is popular enough for Matthew Morrison to win over Steve Carell or that pesky Alec Baldwin. And the same with Jane Lynch. She is absolutely brilliant as the devil Sue Sylvester, but can she beat out the other women? I don’t watch any of the other shows nominated (not because I don’t want to, because I don’t even have time to post a bullshish blog let alone watch five hundred different TV shows).

The only category I feel confident is best actress. For those of you who do watch Glee, you have to admit. Lea Michele plays the perfect diva. Without her, there would be no glee club. Out of all the nominations I’m hoping Lea takes the award home. Since the internet is doing a good job taking down videos, I can’t actually show you her acting. But this clip alone should be reason enough to let the girl win an award:

Okay, so, please don’t take this as any sort of PREDICTION. These are just OPINIONS. I do not make predictions for awards shows. So for you Gleeks out there, do you think Glee stands a chance? Thoughts? Opinions? Predictions (if you do that sort of thing)?