Even Beyonce can't rescue Coldplay's halftime show from mediocrity

Halftime show - 020716 - ftrSANTA CLARA, Calif. — Coldplay's Super Bowl 50 halftime performance was fine.

It was very unoffending, un-arresting. It was very "Coldplay." But that's just it. Is that what the NFL is going for? A very OK but uneventful halftime show? Coldplay is not bad. Their performance was not bad. But it was exactly what you expect from a Coldplay performance.

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Then Beyonce showed up. Surely things would get better, right?

Queen Bey showed up in her finest leather formal attire, strode to the stage, as flames and pyrotechnics shot into the stadium air. Beyonce did her thing, and Bruno Mars was there too; so,…