The time has come again for another Mildly Pleased Awards and my body is willing but my spirit is broken. The idea of an awards show for the stuff that doesn’t stand out, for the forgotten middle, feels like it’s at its most inessential after a full year of blasting moderates and centrists for allowing bullshit to bulldoze us. So let’s dispel the notion that this is anything but three friends taking a chance to talk about art that otherwise would go undiscussed. Because yeah, Brett Ratner jokes aren’t as funny anymore and tomorrow sounds a lot scarier than it did a few years ago, but this is still our lives, damnit! Now that we’re into 2018, I take to heart this advice from Hurray for the Riff Raff: “do your best but fuck the rest, be something.”
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Mildly Pleased Award for Qualified Success in Video Games
Mass Effect Andromeda
Mildly Pleased Award for Best Viral Video
Children interrupt BBC News interview
Mildly Pleased Award for News You Could Use
Doug Jones (barely) beat a pedophile
Mildly Pleased Award for Qualified Success in Television
The Defenders
Mildly Pleased Award for Qualified Success in Music, Album
Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Mildly Pleased Award for Qualified Success in Music, Song
Portugal. The Man – “Feel it Still”
Mildly Pleased Award for Lifetime Achievement in Mild Pleasure
Vin Diesel
Mildly Pleased Award for Qualified Success in Film, Actress
Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver)
Mildly Pleased Award for Qualified Success in Film, Actor
Lily James (Baby Driver)
Mildly Pleased Award for Qualified Success in Film, Picture
The Fate of the Furious