EUROVISION IS HERE! And we thought you might want to talk about it. If you need people to screech to about whatever happens on the Grand Final of the wildly entertaining song contest, this is your place. Can Ireland win with its weird demon-conjuring yawps? Will Croatia’s infectious “Rim Tim Tagi Dim” dance take them all the way? What about Finland and Windows95Man, or whatever the HELL that was from The Netherlands? My notes from the second semi-final read, “THERE’S A DUCK PLAYING THE SYNTHESIZER.”
Peacock is supposed to livestream the whole thing beginning at noon Pacific time, hosted by the brilliant returnee Petra Mede — she KILLED that very cute number during Semi-Final 2, about how people shouldn’t hate Sweden for loving Eurovision too much to stop winning — and the bemused but perhaps overly chill-seeming Malin Åkerman.
PS: Both of us have family commitments during the telecast, so at best we can only duck in and out of the chat — but we will be here in spirit, and later, in some…
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