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Second time Globe nominee Bob Odenkirk for Better Call Saul, the spin-off series from Breaking Bad, doesn’t read his scripts very closely.   Maybe the comedian in him is joking, but here’s what he told us – “I really don’t.

“I always felt like an outsider and this role really speaks to that,” Rami Malek told the HFPA.   “He is someone who feels alienated and ostracized.

Keri Russell, who plays a Soviet agent in The Americans, muses on whether she’d be a good spy.   “I’m literally the worst liar of all time.

In her role as the android Dolores in the HBO series Westworld, Evan Rachel Wood had to figure out how to appear human while subtly suggesting her character’s robotic existence.   “The hosts are so human,” she explained to the HFPA.

Claire Foy receives her first Golden Globe nomination for her role as Elizabeth, first as princess and then as queen of England, in The Crown, Netflix series chronicling the lives of the British royal family.   Costing more than $100 million for its first season, the show takes us into the lives of the Windsors, portraying them as real people who contend with relationships, love, loss and heartbreak just like the rest of us, despite the palaces they live in, the wealth that surrounds them and the pedestal they are placed upon by the subjects they serve.

"This was the biggest thing I’ve ever done so it was quite daunting in the beginning.   The big challenge with playing fantasy is that you have to make it truthful and make the audience believe that that’s actually real and could be possible.

Based on the 1973 Michael Crichton movie of the same name, Westworld focuses on a Western-inspired theme park which is populated by ‘hosts,’ androids that cater to every whim of the guests that visit it.   No fantasy is too far-out to be fulfilled, no storyline taboo.

An ensemble show about a family and their relationships, loves and lives that flashes back and forward in time.   A couple expecting triplets has one stillborn child, and ends up adopting an abandoned child that appears in the hospital at the same time.

A young boy disappears from the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana under mysterious circumstances.   His distraught mother, friends and the town cops all begin a massive manhunt for him, but as the title suggests, things are not straightforward.

This is the sixth nomination for the HBO series which is the most downloaded show in the world.   Based on the fantasy novels by George R.