Critic's Notebook: The BET Awards Powerfully Captures the Pulse of the Nation

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Critic's notebook: The BETAwards powerfully captures the pulse of the nation

telecast seeking a template for how virtual awards shows may look as we head toward Emmys in the fall — and perhaps well beyond that — probably didn't leave with many workable solutions.

That made the job for the BET Awards production team a hair easier on some levels. Winners are unpredictable, as are presenters. There's a reason why "banter" is one of the first things to get trimmed when shows start running long. Here, none of the few recipients spoke for more than a minute. Nobody, presenters or winners, pretended anything was happening live, so that was a burden lifted as well.

It should be noted that as well as the show moved and as packed as it was with emotional performances — and as impressive as some of the quarantine production elements were — Seales sounded like she was being recorded in a small, low-ceilinged bathroom.

Lil Wayne, in contrast, mostly stood on a dark stage spitting verses paying tribute to Kobe Bryant, letting the Black Mamba-themed videos do the heavy lifting. Somehow John Legend had a vast warehouse in which to perform "Never Break," which made me feel bad for Chloe X Halle singing and dancing in a storage locker — at least until I saw that they'd blown their budget on the special effects allowing them to perform side-by-side with…themselves.

 

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Put us back to sleep this Imaginative Extravagant of Unrestrained Fantasy In a time of grotesque outrageous murder and bloodshed in the Americas streets by arrogant authoritarianism and the people rising up to express NO MORE! You give us CIRCUS! ADOS

The pulse of the nation should be beating to drum beat of Reparations to CloseTheRacialWeathGap which has its knee on the neck of 95% of AmericanDescendantsOfSlavery follow BreakingBrown & Tonetalks

No.

Yeah giving awards to homophobes and women beaters.

Fair Assessment

They dragged a black woman called Nicki Minaj & they talk about black empowerment.?Also now she doesn't attend the event so they don't even award her even after knowing that it is clearly her year. She got two No 1 , broke records. And yet she didn't win Best Hip hop Artist😐😑

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“Powerfully”

False. It was awful and the worst pandering out there.

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