Super Bowl Ads Reflect Hollywood -- And That Ain't Good

Millions endured the big game for the chance to watch the commercials. Sounds counter-intuitive in an age when most people pay big money to bypass ads altogether?

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These ads are different. Big stars. Bigger budgets. Splashy effects. Nostalgia on steroids. Yet what we saw on Sunday reflects Hollywood in stark ways.

These over-produced ads threw everything possible at the audience and so little of it stuck.


Ed Morrissey

Christian and I will discuss this in tomorrow's Off the Beaten Path, as well as some of the other cultural markers seen (and not seen) in the biggest TV extravaganza of the year. I honestly only recall the VW and State Farm ads -- the former because of its wokery, and the latter for its fun. "NEIGH-BAAAAA!"

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