The first time I saw Google’s latest commercial, I wondered, “Is it just me, or is this kind of bad?” By the fourth or fifth time I saw it, I’d stopped wondering.
It starts innocuously enough, with a father talking about how much his daughter loves Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (she “might even be the world’s number one Sydney fan”). Apparently, she wants to write the Olympic gold medalist a fan letter and needs her dad’s help — and that’s where things take a turn.


