Adele: One Night Only (2021 TV Special)
8/10
Grand Presentation Of Adele
15 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
From California a stunning concert with Adele presenting her greatest songs and some new ones from her latest release. Smartly done and the same Director who has worked on her videos before definitely benefits the presentation. CBS/HARPO combined putting this together and Oprah Interview Segments space the concert clips throughout.

What the interview segments reveal is some of the inspirations and personal feelings of Adele. There are also views about the inspiration behind the music. As for her life journey, she is in a way like everyone. She sets out her priorities in life and her wishes for her child. She is kind of like maybe she will have another one.

Adele expresses a dislike of aging and from life experience one thing she should know is have the next child sooner rather than later. Aging makes having a child more difficult for anyone and agreed is her view that aging is no fun.

The presentation in front of a celebrity audience in an outdoor venue which features a luma light presentation on the Observatory behind her which is magnificent. The Marriage Proposal at the show for a surprised woman is staged well. This gets done often in other venues, but here she seems really shocked and in awe of the front row presence she is brought into.

It is nice to see a California sunset on a nice hazy day in the background. While the glances at the Celebrity Audience are fine, the director is smart in not letting those famous mugs distract from the presentation working them into the fabric of the program. Music being done to support her and back=up singers are shown, and also kept to a minimum. The music is a 1 woman show.

The director does a fine job on the Interview segments with Oprah combining a great background enough with Adele and Oprah to make the visual quite enjoyable. This might even be nicer if it comes out with un-aired footage someplace and without the advertising which does get in the way of continuity at times. The ads are the reason I will not go to the highest rating here.

Adele is kind of like The Masters in Golf is to music. The presentation might have been smoother if all the ads were around it instead of interrupting it. However, a dollar is always a dollar and lots of them were spent here and it shows. As far as I am concerned, Adele is a priceless musical treasure. When you encounter one of these, your mouth should open in awe of what your ears experience, and be overpowered.
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