This is going to sound sappy as hell, but watching this series, during this time, feels so incredibly special. To the point where when I think back on the whole lockdown thing, this doc will be one of the rare positives - if not THE positive - that comes to mind. It's just so damn good, and makes me appreciate more than ever the fact that I got to witness all of this first hand as a kid/teenager in the '80s/'90s. I got to grow up wearing Air Jordans and being inspired by this guy. Nothing in modern times even compares to how incredibly iconic Jordan was, and the more I watch, the more Jordan feels like he was somehow conjured out of thin air to be this perfectly engineered figure of the times, one who impacted sports, culture, marketing, and design like no other figure I can think of, in just the right ways.
That, and he's funny/cool as hell in his modern-day interviews. He was starting to get a bad wrap after his Hall of Fame speech, then there was of course the crying meme, and then combined with the dominance of LeBron, it felt like Jordan had dropped a couple of pegs or like the world had soured on him a bit. But he's not only completely undone all of that in just four episodes of television, he's re-established his dominance like never before, while making his "assh*lesness" and his drive - along with his relentless pursuit to hold others to his standards - somehow almost endearing. Especially compared to most modern athletes, even the mega-stars, who now only serve to show how rare Jordan truly was. In other words, I somehow like and appreciate Jordan more now than I did even when I was a super-fan in real-time.
This whole thing really is remarkable.
