Though closer to hagiography than documentary, Jordan’s Netflix series offers a lavish and beautiful courtside seat
That thing you like? It’s actually rubbish. Here’s why. No wait, come back! This isn’t that. Although, as it happens, there has been a background drip of this kind of thing around The Last Dance, the blockbusting Netflix series documenting the incredible untold story of Michael Jordan winning at basketball while people tell him he’s great and he pretends to be nice.
Come back again! Just a joke! But this has been a real-world subplot to the success of The Last Dance, a public response that has veered between unconditional reverence, to a kind of culture-wars inventory of the personal politics of the film’s star. As the final episodes aired this week there was a minor chorus of Chicago Bulls teammates dismayed at their own portrayal as extras, plot devices in the Jordan Supremacy.
Written by Barney Ronay
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/may/23/the-last-dance-spectacular-michael-jordan-netflix under the title “The Last Dance is spectacular but leaves the real Michael Jordan up in the air | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
