Role Reboot

The 2019 Oscars: An Improved Show With A Few Huge Missteps

If you value diversity, you have to appreciate the effort this year. The 2019 Oscars managed to avoid most of the problems people usually complain about. Given how many awards they present, a long show is unavoidable, but the pace this year seemed positively snappy, with more than one winner getting played off the stage […]

The Golden Globes: A Celebration Of Diversity, Sort Of

Much like our hosts, the winners, at times, seem to have been chosen out of two boxes—one white and traditional, the other from the larger and unwieldier box called “diversity.” Few things bore me faster than people who talk on social media about how boring and irrelevant and overlong and stupid Awards Show X is. […]