Over the next five weeks, ESPN will give a glorious gift to a sports-deprived public: 'The Last Dance,' a great ten-part docuseries about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
Michael Jordan and Horace Grant, back in the day, in The Last Dance. Photo: Nathaniel S. Butler/Netflix Over the next five weeks, ESPN will give a glorious gift to a sports-deprived public.
1. It gives people something to watch and, with two hour-long episodes landing every Sunday from this week through May 17, something they can look forward to at the end of every long, long week.3. It taps into a deeply nostalgic vein for anyone who followed Jordan and the Bulls, or just misses the 1990s.
From there, the timeline of the series shifts backward and forward and interweaves footage of old games, news coverage, and interviews providing context about all the history being relayed through a variety of sources — including Jordan’s mom and brothers, numerous NBA players, former NBA commissioner David Stern, journalists, and presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama .
Jordan’s image, which he and his managers carefully cultivated with shoe lines and commercials to create a brand that remains viable today, has always been polished, though it has certainly gotten some, ahem, knicks in it over the years. But it’s still rare to hear people, including Jordan himself, admit to just how difficult he could be, at least on a network like ESPN.
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