Like so many others with a Netflix subscription, I sat down in front of my TV last Saturday night to watch Alex Honnold climb a nearly 1,700-foot tower as part of the streamer’s Skyscraper Live global event. My wife, kids, and I anxiously watched as the subject of the Free Solo documentary climbed floor by floor until he reached the top of Taipei 101. What made it even more of a spectacle, at least in my eyes, was the commentary from a panel situated safely back on the ground.
After watching the Netflix special event, I checked out the online discourse. While pretty much everyone agreed that Honnold’s Spider-Man-like climb was the stuff of legend, so many people were trashing the commentary by Elle Duncan, Seth Rollins and Emily Harrington. But here’s the thing: I really liked what the former leader of WWE’s The Vision brought to the table.
