Grammys Review: Telecast Is the Best in Years, Between the Horse Races, Conscience for L.A., Hot New Artists and Cool Quincy Acolytes
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Not many awards shows that have lasted 3 hours and 45 minutes have ever had a preponderance of viewers agreeing that this length was justified.
Sunday night’s 67th annual Grammys telecast might be the exception that belongs in that very rarefied strata — a show so solid, so relatively fat-free, that you might not even have minded if it’d stretched a bit further to take up a few minutes in the east coast’s following calendar day.
It had everything you could want out of a Grammycast: horseraces that people actually cared about, a sense of connection to the real world outside of that suspense, and nary a dud across 16 packed performance slots.
Sure, you checked your watch… but at least partially in amazement that the show was still sustaining itself this flawlessly, this many hours in.
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