Critic's notebook: Speeches by Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders were the highlights of a strange but fairly successful first night of the 2020 DemConvention
As Michelle Obama ended an 18+-minute address to America, capping off the first night of the virtual Democratic Convention, broadcast and cable networks scurried away from the DNC feed to begin deconstructing the former first lady's alternately pugnacious and inspiring words. That meant they missed out on the extremely strange collaboration between Stephen Stills and Billy Porter on the 1960s protest classic"For What It's Worth.
The Democrats chose the latter approach, enlisting Eva Longoria as a so-called"convention moderator," standing in a dark studio and alternating between conducting on-screen interviews, cueing up guests, speeches and performances or just connecting countless montages.
The joined theme of the evening was"We the people…" and"Unity," hence the dozen-plus montages featuring an inclusive representation of the populace, sometimes celebrating America's strength and resilience and sometimes mourning the 170,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the past five months.
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