Sharon Horgan Can Get Away With Murdering Us.

By Alberto Cox Délano | Pajiba 10 | December 12, 2023

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Since Pajiba 10 opted for the more representative ranked-choice voting system instead of the puny first-past-the-post, I’ll add another champion to my campaigning.

But in choosing a second name for my list of Pajiba 10 candidates, I ran into a few self-imposed problems. At first, I thought of nominating a personal heartthrob of mine: Shioli Kutsuna, the soul, heart, and eyes of the irregular but poignant Invasion. But then I thought of what people would think: “Wow, nominating a second Japanese woman? As a white guy? And Latino? You are so many layers of cliché that you are a milhojas cake!”. Ok fine. So next, I thought of someone everyone loved at Pajiba and who’s had a Godzilla of a year: Olivia Rodrigo. But then I realized I’d be going to hell. For a short second, I thought of nominating Godzilla, who’s also had a Taylor Swift of a year, with the success of Godzilla Minus One and Monarch: Legacy of Monster, but as the season of the latter isn’t finished yet. The movie is probably not arriving to my side of the world, I felt I couldn’t make it work.

I was running on empty, but then I remembered I had forgotten to write one of these last year, even though I knew very well who my candidate would be. Luckily for me, the SAG-AFTRA strike moved the Primetime Emmy Awards to the first week of January 2024, a ceremony in which my candidate is a double nominee, still topical! A woman who has been a long-time favorite at Pajiba since way before I joined the team, and who has kept delivering year after year, both in front and behind the camera: From Bad Sisters, Catastrophe, This Way Up, Sharon Horgan everybody.

Sharon Horgan is the very definition of a new breed of actresses that, when faced with what the industry was offering them, said, “fuck it, I’ll write and produce good roles myself.” With nearly two dozen writing and three dozen producing credits, she made herself into a bit of a powerhouse, stepping all over the industry Pricks who think actresses die after turning 30.

Now, I’m not going to waste any more of your time making you read my thirsting for an Irish actress. Again. And again. You want to listen to them. Or read them picturing The Accent of Accents. I think it’s time just to call it, Sharon Horgan is the Supreme Sister of this Irish Actor Renaissance.

You welcome.