I highly recommend the first part, right up to the molten rings of steel which were an absolute tour de force.
It became more confused after that: pointless homage to the NHS wrapped in a fair piece about a famous children’s hospital, funny piece about Chariots of Fire, dumb pop-culture segment, good cauldron-lighting ceremony, clever dove section.
The Chinese did a better, more consistently good show - though the UK’s Isembard Kingdom Brunel + Olympic Ring section really SHONE.
Quite right. That was nice the part you mention. You get this ambivalent attitude even the Victorians had about how the world was changing around them. Of course the idiots at NBC stated Jerusalem was the unofficial anthem of Britain I am that will piss off the Welsh, Scots and Irish.