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I love the doc, but it definitely could have been better. Not quite as epic as I had hoped for and expected. As others have mentioned, the big thing is that I thought there would be way more unseen and behind the scenes footage. For longtime Jordan/Bulls junkies like me and others, we already knew half the stuff it presented and have read or heard it before. Like in the finale, the "revelation" about the poisoned pizza. That's not even news. Grover has told that story more than once in past years.
The final two episodes are, to me, actually the weakest episodes. They're mostly just recaps of what happened in those playoff games. Not a lot of deep or new insight into much during the last two hours.
Overall, I think the series is about an 8/10. During the course of the nearly nine hours, there are enough new/unseen things to make it much more satisfying than just yet another Bulls recap video. But there are also a lot of minutes spent on things I needed none of, personally. But that's the tough spot you're in, making this thing: You have to tell the whole story and background for people who don't know it, while hopefully not boring those of us who do. If anything, I wish they had made it five episodes longer and could've really done both. Who knows, though: For all the hype and talk of these hundreds of hours of unseen footage from the vault, maybe a lot of it actually wasn't that great or compelling.
The final two episodes are, to me, actually the weakest episodes. They're mostly just recaps of what happened in those playoff games. Not a lot of deep or new insight into much during the last two hours.
Overall, I think the series is about an 8/10. During the course of the nearly nine hours, there are enough new/unseen things to make it much more satisfying than just yet another Bulls recap video. But there are also a lot of minutes spent on things I needed none of, personally. But that's the tough spot you're in, making this thing: You have to tell the whole story and background for people who don't know it, while hopefully not boring those of us who do. If anything, I wish they had made it five episodes longer and could've really done both. Who knows, though: For all the hype and talk of these hundreds of hours of unseen footage from the vault, maybe a lot of it actually wasn't that great or compelling.