'Three Billboards' and 'Big Little Lies' are the top winners of a very different kind of Golden Globes awards

The Golden Globes are, by reputation, the loosest, booziest and most decidedly unserious ceremony on Hollywood’s awards season calendar, with the awards themselves quite often the butt of the joke. Hosting the awards in 2016, Ricky Gervais repeatedly savaged them as “meaningless.”

But, in a year...