Something I really appreciate about the Misty interrigation, and especially the reaction to it, is just that how nuanced it was and how much it played on the fact that the audience was conditioned to be on Misty's side. That since Misty was one of the heroes of the story, we automatically interpreted the scene from…

The Misty interview was really interesting for me. Whle I can see the recappers point of the interviewer acting superior and dismissive to Misty, and the choice of casting supports that being likely being by choice, at the same time there was a constant undeniable fact that Misty had lost control and gone beyond her…

While it was anything but subtle, I did enjoy the callback to the first episode with the paintings, especially Stokes's speech about the crown. When they show Shades sitting in the chair, there is a pastoral painting behind his head, a sign of tranquility and calm, while Diamondback seeks out the Biggie painting,…

I'm torn between which of the moments from Claire in this episode was the greater source of hilarity for me in this episode: When Claire seems confused why the criminal whose business Luke has cost millions of dollars is so intent on killing Luke or when Claire's answer to where did she learn all this high-level…

Tahani continues to be an excellent supporting character. While it was a small detail, just the cut to her looking around baffled during Janet's crying lifted that scene to new heights. And then there were all the reactions from her to Michael's sniping and the "No need to apologize. But do go on." at the end was just…

Janet was so brilliant in this episode. Just when I thought nothing could improve on that "Yes. This will not affect me in any way." response, we got the pleading. The very, very realistic pleading. I also loved how the terminology describing her destruction moved from killed to murdered to slaughtered while everyone…

This came up in the last review thread as well, but I continue to impressed by Shades and the actor. For example, when they had that scene with three crooks at the club, while all of them were armed and bigger than Shades, the actor and director was still able to give him this energy that he could have easily taken…

Something I liked with Misty in this episode was that she was very clearly losing control in many situations while insisting that she was still okay and in control. It added a layer of vulnerability and humanity in to this character that thus far had been portrayed as this supercop, making her much easier to relate…

For me, I groaned with the revelation of Diamonback being Luke's former friend/brother, I'm still a bit unclear on that. I generally like having the past coming back to haunt the protagonist, but here it is all so contrived. It would have worked better for me if Diamondback had specifically sought Luke out and thus…

Allow me to clarify a little bit. I don't think they are pushing Nikki as the face of women's wrestling and, while I am not that big of a fan of her as a worker, I completely agree that she has a passion for the business and has strove to improve, and that she isn't given enough credit for those things. What I found…

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There was this, for me, weird fixation on Nikki Bella and who she is in this episode of Smackdown, even beyond the storyline. Booker T put her over as the greatest women's wrestler company or something like that in the Pre-Show, her going out there with that promo where she specifically calls out Sasha and Charlotte…

My own favorite moment in the main event match was when Ambrose called a commercial time out right at the beginning because 'They had bills to pay', drawing Styles's ire as he claimed Ambrose couldn't do that just before they cut to actual commercials. I laughed so hard at that point.

Talking Smack did some really great work with Daniel Bryan tonight, essentially confronting the fact that he has become the Face Authority that doesn't want to give the heels their chances because he doesn't like the way they conduct business. It was a crucial story element moving things forward and opens up so many…

I understand that and it's not like I would have been pitching this approach to the character myself. I think for me, because I wasn't so attached to Evil Emma this feels as good of a choice as any, especially if they weren't going to attach Dana back to Evil Emma as she really needed that boastful presence by her…

I don't think I can praise that opening segment enough. KO and Jericho did a really good job in portraying the HIAC match as this brutal, career-ending experience while finally managing to establish some personal resentment between KO and Rollins. Rollins came out with a good reaction and managed to get the crowd on…

While the Dana botch was horrible, it did produce one of the lines of the night for me as the commentary just sat there awkwardly, trying to figure out what to say, with Byron finally going "Well, she won it fair and square. I have to give her that."

I agree partially on the reductive part, but I feel there are ways to make it work, especially don't have a narcisistic, look obsessed character currently on Raw. So it does automatically create a niche for her to claim as her own and feel unique on the current roster.

While the women's interviews weren't anything groundbreaking content wise, even though with my biases I did really like Charlotte's segment, I did find it really interesting how they used a lot of the editing and shooting angles to reinforce the perceptions of the two characters.

I don't know. I realize there is a lot of love for Evil Emma, but I really wasn't really personally that big on Evil Emma on the main roster as she always felt like a B-level heel there. I recently, for another project, rewatched a lot of the women's stuff from that period and it did not really feel she was connecting…