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Surprisingly good main event and it made my heart smile with how vocal the crowd was for Seth. I'm not actually certain they are transitioning Seth to the IC title chase as the story seems to be with Dean and there are no challengers for Sheasaro at the moment. I think that would be a really great program that would

I kind of love the continuing trend in the WWE that attempted murder will get you title opportunities awarded with stern disapproval. I'm certain that reprimand will really make Roman think twice in the future, Kurt.

I'm still confounded that within two hours of programming, SDL managed to present three heels whose main evil quality is that they are foreigners who insult America. Three of them and all top heels. It makes me appreciate Rusev a bit more as at least with him the focus is on him being a dick with anger issues.

The Usos were robbed based on my completely objective view, especially after that R Rated slam. And you promised to be objective, Wale, you promised.

Don't let these nay-sayers twist your views on Titus Worldwide. You can't spell dependable without Titus. Or at least that is what he told me, but who am I to question him after all this success.

The IC title segment a really pleasant surprise. Miz coming out and spitting fire, Curtis and Bo looking like they fit the part perfectly, Miz/Slater having a pretty good match and Dean being great on commentary. It wasn't anything earthshattering, but it did remind us why these two are so important for stuff like

Apollo Crews just main evented Raw. I think it is fair to say that investing in Titus Worldwide was a good idea despite Charly's earlier slanderous claims.

They are putting the Hardys in an Iron Man match? That one slightly boggles my mind unless they have faith beyond words on Sheasaro's ability to carry them through the whole 30 minutes. And even then, after seeing Matt's current attempts at brawling, it still feels like a stretch.

It will be interesting to see what they going forward, especially since we know that with GLOW, it's not just about the rise, it's also about the fall and I thought we got some hints of that here. When Sam sent Tamme to ruin Debbie's moment because he thought that the good guy winning was far too predictable despite

Agreeing with the gratitude. Although I don't always agree with all of Ferguson's points, I think she is really good at explaining her viewpoint instead of just throwing it out there. One more person who shall miss her here.

It really hit me why Mark is the worst in this episode. This is a show about masks and working the crowd, but also who these people are beneath it all and how they need to be at peace with themselves to do what they do. But with Mark, everythings a work except the distain. He's completely a performer in this life with

Yeah as Ruth needs to understand that if you want to be at the top, you also need to have that ego to push for it. It's what makes being a top performer in WWE so interesting for me as you have to be about yourself, but you also need to be understand the greater picture. It's a bizarre balance which I can't understand

I thought the Beirut scene also hit really well on what is the current reality in professional wrestling. There's this constant discussion on the good and bad of heat, on many fronts actually, in professional wrestling. For example, the current WWE champion Jinder Mahal's heat is in many ways built on xenophobia and

That was such a beautiful finish for the season, but I also think they really established a great framework to go forward. I expect if they get that second season, they are going to dig deeper in to what it means to be a good face and a heel as I think they set up an excellent story with Tamme and Ruth for that. As

'Do you want milk or sugar with that?'

I think something that made the finish even worse was that it is conceptually pretty good. Bill's great love, who she thought she had lost to forces greater than her, comes back at her greatest moment of despair having finally mastered those forces. I would almost bet they came up with that ending first and loved it

I almost screamed at the screen when Heather appeared and started just magically arranging things. What made it even more infuriating was how Puddle Pilot didn't even seem the same as she did in the pilot where even when alive, she had been distant and odd with she and Bill having perhaps five-ish discussions

Semi-autobiographical. And you have to admire someone willing to essentially tell a room of people that as a kid he wanted to have sex with his mother which apparently only stopped when she got older and less hot.

While Ruth, Debbie, Cherry and Sam get a lot of deserved praise, Bash is just such a sneaky surprise in this show, especially considering that it took them a couple of episode to even bring him in. Just his dedication to the product, his respect for everyone involved, his priviliged worldview clashing with his good

They continued to utilize Jenny perfectly here with Bash cutting her off to tell the butler that she will her story through a translator beign the first hilarious moment, but then to actually see her deliver the speech in Cambodian with the word crack constantly inserted there was just delightful. I really wanted to