The Golden Globes will start awards season on Sunday, three months after Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a sexual predator and serial abuser. Reeling from #MeToo, which felled many men in Weinstein’s wake, the industry’s annual celebration comes when almost nobody finds it worth celebrating.

Self-celebration, with all the gloss and surface beauty that separates Tinseltown from ordinary people, will almost certainly erode even the low esteem in which Hollywood is already held.