The Last Dance: Season 1

""The Last Dance" is essentially asking the audience to be Jordan's teammate through this ride. You see how his overbearing competitive drive leads to ticks in the win column, and also strains individual relationships along the way."

"A more-than-casual basketball person, such as myself, might know all of this about Jordan and think, as I actually, did: This seems like a lot of stone for such a little bit of blood. But here's the achievement of this series: Jordan isn't boring."

"The Last Dance has the advantage of history. It feels like long ago and looks that way, too... At the age of 57, Jordan has nothing to prove and -- suddenly and surprisingly -- plenty to say."

"How can The Last Dance truly interrogate Jordan when it's Jordan holding the strings? Yet time and again, The Last Dance presented Jordan's basketball idiosyncrasies unfiltered."

"A stunningly refined and comprehensive look at the legacy and inner turmoil of one of the most essential sports teams of all time."

"It also reminds us how it felt the first time we saw greatness, in the form of a man, his tongue sticking out like a little boy's, taking flight over and over, right before our eyes."

"The lack of commentary on the wider society feels like a missed opportunity. But "The Last Dance" offers the best and most intimate look at how Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dominated the sports world in the 1990s."

"To those who recall what it meant to "Be like Mike" (cue the jingle), "The Last Dance" is an intoxicating trip into the way-back machine. More broadly, though, the project is a thoughtful look at the costs associated with stardom and how they've evolved in the modern sports era, particularly in the NBA."

"The limited series is as complete a portrait of Michael Jordan's extraordinary basketball career as fans will ever get. It's a Citizen Kane-like biography about Jordan's relentless pursuit of greatness at all costs."

"There’s so much rich material, so much game-changing basketball history, so many powerful dramatic moments off the court, there’s no clear purpose to so much bending of the linear timeline."

"It's here you realize that Last Dance may be a stand-alone, limited docuseries, but it's also something of a Voltron formed from bits and pieces of material already covered in previous ESPN projects..."

"At a time when ESPN and other outlets are struggling to fill the sports-less void, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic’s disruption of, well, everything, “The Last Dance” is exactly what fans need. It’s both a perfect diversion and a tribute to shared sacrifice."