Milan Cortina’s Painfully Long Olympics Opening Ceremony Was a Defiantly Analog Celebration of Humanity

I just watched the opening ceremony for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, and it was… ambitious, to say the least. Produced by the experienced Marco Balich, it was broadcast live on NBC and Peacock, and it wasn’t a traditional, single-location affair. The main event unfolded at Milan’s San Siro Stadium with around 80,000 people watching, but there were also events happening in other places, even a second cauldron lit in Cortina! Honestly, jumping between locations and seeing the Parade of Nations split up was a little confusing at first. But it all seemed to tie into the ceremony’s central idea – armonia, which means harmony. And in today’s world, the idea of literally connecting events from different places to create one unified experience felt pretty powerful and symbolic.

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Okay, so Emerald Fennell? She’s just… incredible. Everyone in the industry calls her a risk-taker, and honestly, they’re right! She loves to throw you for a loop and completely shock you, and I am absolutely here for it. She’s not afraid to push boundaries, and it’s what makes her work so amazing, in my opinion!