I only watched the first 15-20 minutes, then watched the In Memoriam reel on YouTube. Based on what I saw and read, some of the experiments paid off, and some did not (spectacularly so).
I'm impressed that they found new ways to screw up the In Memoriam reel. Bad song choice, terrible pacing, overwrought and too long intro by Angela Bassett. It's hard to escape the feeling that somebody thought the traditional way was too much of a downer. The music trivia sounded awful. (It reminded of me of what I thought was Letterman's fatal flaw when he hosted -- interrupting the ceremony to do stupid pet tricks. Otherwise I thought he was fine.) To do it when the show was on final approach? Terrible. And the one seemingly spontaneous moment that people talked about turned out to be preplanned. I will say this: If you want to take risks, you might as well do it when you're going to have low ratings anyway. On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 8:42:42 PM UTC-4 Bob Jersey wrote: > Still, Variety reviewer Caroline Framke agrees with many here: > https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/oscars-review-academy-awards-2021-1234960324/ > (link) > > B > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/3c2dfe13-9d78-46ba-9ea6-a18faa80c140n%40googlegroups.com.
