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Oscars TV Review: Will Smith’s Unscripted Slap Of Chris Rock Turns Stumbling Show Into Stunning Spectacle

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Two years into a global pandemic, the 2022 Oscars initially appeared intent on becoming the Grammys tonight.Kicking off with an introduction by the legendary Venus and Serena Williams and leaping immediately into a lime drenched performance of the Oscar nominated King Richard theme song by Beyonce from the tennis courts of Compton, the 94th Academy Awards on ABC looked like a ceremony in search of an identity.Of course, the shocking moment that will define this year’s more than three and a half hour long show forever was a very unscripted and very very real only on live television moment when Will Smith went up on stage and hit Chris Rock hard for mocking Jada Pinkett Smith as he got ready to hand out the Best Documentary Award.“Will Smith just smacked the s**t out of me,” exclaimed the shocked past Oscar host as the Internet exploded with lip readers for the long bleep in Academy Awards history. “Keep my wife’s name out your f***king mouth,” a censored Smith proclaimed when he returned to his front row seat.

No one attempted to remove Smith from the Dolby Theatre for what was clearly an assault regardless of the reasoning behind it.Though he was interrupted by odd cuts to an Oscar slate and shots of the Williams sisters in the crowd, the tears rolling down Smith’s face less than half an hour later when he won the Best Actor Award was of a man naked with his deepest emotions in front of the entire world. “Art imitates life, I look like the crazy father just like they said about Mr.

Williams,” the actor who portrayed Venus and Serena’s father in King Richard. “ Love makes you do crazy things,” Smith added in a speech that not one ever thought once about playing any lead-off music over.

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