- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 23, 2021
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings
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Positive: 6 out of 14
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Negative: 4 out of 14
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Jul 28, 2021Oh no! It's still 2020? I thought that god-awful year was finally gone. Who really cares about the sports, 99% of the viewers are here to ogle male and female anatomy at peak physical performance.
Mario Sunshine blesses all Olympians with his eternal warmth.
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It was not the boisterous return-to-life party we might have hoped for a year ago, nor was it the retreat we might have expected. It was a halfway, transitional ceremony for a halfway, transitional, precarious moment.
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A a mournful mishmash of a ceremony that only emphasized its dark context. ... It was a celebration suited to an Olympics that many aren’t sure should exist at all. ... The moments that drew viewers into rapture were outnumbered by jolts back into distressing reality. More egregiously, the four-hour ceremony devoted multiple minutes to John Lennon’s “Imagine” as arranged by Hans Zimmer and sung by performers around the world, including the overexposed celebrities John Legend and Keith Urban.
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Over the course of the two-plus-hour Parade of Nations, NBC’s coverage of the opening ceremonies alternated between edifying trivia (Kiribati is the world’s only nation to occupy all four cardinal hemispheres!) and America-centric jingoism. ... The silence was strange. The lack of ambient crowd energy was strange. The NBC director’s resistance to wide shots capturing the full venue was understandable, but still strange. Add “somber” to the list of adjectives that could be applied to this opening ceremony that have never been applied to an Olympics opening before.