Five-ring circus: The Thread of the XXXIII Olympiad

Headless women, heavy metal and a lady on a boat. Peyton Manning must be so confused.

 

Nothing here that hasn't gotten 10 points from Sweden in Eurovision.

 

I realize they need filler while they reset and reload the boats, but what the actual fuck?

 

This was about the part in the show where I realized they were doing the Frenchiest version of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. They caught the early boats near the beginning, then shift downstream while they do the artistic stuff like that, and so they pick up the middle of the parade in the middle of the route and the end near the end.

Really, there's no more (maybe even a little less) of the "cultural" stuff than there have been in previous iterations. The only difference is they mixed in boat stuff, instead of just having 90 minutes of Up With People and then starting the parade.

 

Is Joe Flacco playing piano in a sequined shirt?

 

I feel very happy to be missing this.

 

That was what we're bitching about?

Yeah, there was a reference to the Last Supper, but it was clearly obvious in 30 seconds or less that it was the setting for a fashion show. There were five things more offensive than that in this year's Eurovision alone.

 

Not watching, but keep seeing people complaining about sacrilegious dance numbers on Twitter. And then there was this. Fun.

 

Did Sha’carri Richardson almost flash the camera during her interview? Her shirt was deeply unbuttoned and when she turned to the side, the camera pushed in very tight for a shoulders up shot.

 

The woman holding the flag doesn't have her breasts exposed. If you're going to do something, do it right!

I can hardly wait for the opening ceremonies at the SLC Olympics, and the reenactment of the Mountain Meadow Massacre.

 

Yeah, the US isn't really at the back of the parade because of LA 2028, it's because United States in French is "Etats-Unis d'Amerique" and NBC doesn't want to burn them in the first third of the parade and have everyone tune out by 9 ET.

 

Just got home from the movies. I was hoping someone would explain why my Facebook feed was melting down.