TikTok is always warning me not to venture into the Paris catacombs without a guide, but the beginning of the Opening Ceremony sent precocious children to run down there unattended. These Stranger Things enfants end up running into a Phantom of the Opera-esque figure beneath the Paris streets, who rows them (and then turns on the boat's motor to go faster) all the way down the Seine to help them get the torch to the bigger torch they have to light to start the games... -Anne Victoria Clark
The totally unrehearsed cancan. What at first seemed like a very rickety version of the cancan suddenly gained new context as the show continued into a grand citywide interpretive dance celebrating the re-construction of the Notre-Dame cathedral. It seems like the cheesy costumes and clumsy choreo were intentionally designed to mock audience expectations of French culture, because there is nothing quite as French as a vicious taunting... -A.V.C.
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