Every Golden Globe 2025 Winning Show (And Where to Watch Them)

If you want to weigh up the cultural impact of Adolescence, consider this: in the space of 12 months, Owen Cooper has gone from living a relatively normal 15-year-old’s life in Warrington to winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe and could be seen chewing Timotheé Chalamet’s ear off and shouting out LFC from the stage on Sunday night. In six weeks, he’ll be making his big screen debut as a young Heathcliff (aka a young Jacob Elordi) in Wuthering Heights.

All that said, Cooper’s jarringly composed rise in the industry is really just one small part of Adolescence’s story. This is a show that brought social realism back to the masses via four snare-tight, single-take episodes. If you’ve yet to see it, imagine if This is England was shot by Emmanuelle Lubetski (Children of Men), and you’ll have an idea of what to expect. 

Awards: Best Male Actor (Stephen Graham), Supporting Male Actor (Owen Cooper) and Supporting Female Actor (Erin Doherty) in a Limited Series, and Best Limited Series.

You don’t have to still be holding a torch for Noah Wyle from his ER days (or even Donnie Darko days) to enjoy The Pitt, but I guess it doesn’t hurt, which is more than you can say for a lot of what happens in this Pittsburgh emergency room drama. Over 15 real-time episodes, the show basically runs the gamut of human emotions, jumping from joy to despair in about as much time as it takes to walk down a corridor or through a door. 

Wyle got to take the stage on Sunday, just as he had done at the Emmys in September, but the rest of the cast deserve just as much recognition—especially Katherine LaNasa for her performance as head nurse Diana Evans (she won the Emmy but was oddly not even nominated here) and Taylor Dearden as Dr Mel. The new season started just last week—if you happened to jump on the bandwagon yet, now’s the time.

Awards: Best Series - Drama and Best Male Actor - Drama (Noah Wyle)

Is it simply a coincidence that the three biggest TV winners on Sunday night all paid such attention to temporality? The Pitt was structured so that each episode corresponded to a single hour. In Adolescence, each episode was convincingly presented as a single take. The Studio wasn’t that disciplined (it is a comedy after all), but it did seem just as obsessed with the oner—even devoting a whole episode to the challenges of capturing one. Somewhere up there, Béla Tarr (who passed away just last week) must have been watching on with a rueful smile. 

Created by Seth Rogen and his old writing partner Evan Goldberg, The Studio is a show about a Hollywood idealist (or naive dreamer) who lands an unlikely job as the head of a fictional movie studio—think This is the End meets The Player, and you’ll get the idea. It’s a show, like Entourage, that allows for all kinds of real-life cameos—up to and including Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard—and funny situations, but it’s also a worrying eulogy to a fading business and way of life. 

Awards: Best Series - Comedy or Musical, Male Actor - Comedy (Seth Rogen)

Due to the unusual eligibility window, Rhea Seahorn will have to wait until September to see if her win for Best Female Actor will be repeated at the Emmys—an awards ceremony that has never really shown her the love, despite playing Kim Wexler for six seasons on Better Call Saul. Unlike that show, however, Gilligan’s sci-fi follow-up, Pluribus, has hit the ground running, seemingly capturing the zeitgeist along with the attention of the watching masses, including myself. 

If you’ve not seen it yet, Galligan’s invasion of seemingly benevolent body-snatchers feels like the perfect mix of his breakout work on The X-Files and his crowning achievement, Breaking Bad. 

Awards: Best Female Actor - Drama)

With three Globes and counting for her portrayal of Debora Vance in Hacks, Jean Smart is beginning to dominate this category like Sarah Jessica Parker did in the early ‘00s. That this richly deserved recognition has come so late in Smart’s career—especially in a culture that tends to award female actors early and men late—is nothing if not encouraging.

Whatever the case, four seasons in Hacks remains a finely written and delicately observed show, even as it has veered away from its comedy roots in more recent episodes. Come for Smart’s performance, of course, but stick around for Hannah Einbender (who plays her protege, frenemy and sparring partner, Ava) and the great Megan Stalter (who recently flourished in her first lead role in Lena Dunham’s Too Much).

Awards: Best Female Actor - Comedy (Jean Smart)

The other Globe-winning show that was released too late for Emmy consideration last year was the tantalisingly titled Michelle Williams series, Dying for Sex. This is a show based on the real-life experiences (which she recounted on her podcast of the same name) of Molly Kochan, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 and decided to spend her final years having lots of sex. 

The series, which was developed for FX by Liz Meriwether (New Girl), follows Kochen’s attempts to find something that’s been eluding her her entire life: an orgasm. Williams, as ever, is the main draw here, but she’s backed up by a remarkable supporting cast—notably Jenny Slate (Obvious Child), Jay Duplass (Industry) and the one and only Sissy Spacek (Carrie).