Unless something changed very recently I'm not aware of, last night's Smackdown was covered and the only other WWE show that's covered airs on Mondays, so I can't imagine so.

I'm not sure it's a "try" type of show. I mean, its writing style and rather cartoonish comedy aren't going to be for everyone, and if it isn't for you, you're probably not going to power through it to get to the meatier stuff. And if you skip straight to the meaty stuff to see what the hype is about, it's unlikely…

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That's what I'm saying, I can't remember the last time Raw did this kind of stuff, and I've been watching Raw for over a decade. I'd say maybe you could give it to early 2005 Raw? Triple H was being shifted out of the main event and giving a huge boost to Batista (who wasn't very good but got insanely over on the…

Were we watching the same show in 2011? Because as I recall, we had the Corre, John Cena's title feuds against the likes of the Miz, John Morrison, and R-Truth, CM Punk being horribly misused for the first half of the year, the Michael Cole/Jerry Lawler feud, anything involving the women being a trainwreck, Alex…

I was thinking the same thing, but after realizing it's a longer story and not a story-of-the-week (I initially figured it was going to main event last night's show), I have to imagine we'll get that next week. Which is smart, not blowing your load in the first segment of the feud. It's the KISS strategy LaToya points…

This may sound like hyperbole, but it really isn't: based on the past month and change, as far as week-to-week quality goes, Smackdown Live! is the best show WWE's put on national television in a very long time. I'm talking years—at least since 2012, possibly going farther back into the mid-2000s (though I was only…

Yeah, that's true. It's not like it pissed me off in Observer and Report or anything, it's just that I've seen unattractive assholes get the girl in Jody Hill movies before and in this particular show it'd feel really phony and unearned.

The feeling I get is that the show has given the characters enough depth that I'm empathizing and rooting for all of them—if not to accomplish their stated goals in the show, then to better themselves and see the error of their ways. I do want Gamby to successfully connect with his daughter and get a promotion, and…

I said to myself early in this episode that it was going to kill me if Gamby actually ends up with Snodgrass. The episode that followed went a long way in changing my thoughts on it, though I still really hope they never go fully down that road. It became clear that Gamby is just a horribly awkward and somewhat…

Yeah, "Omniverse" was the track, played when Anna was hiding in her room after using David's phone. I popped for it, because I adore The Guest and its soundtrack.

Yeah, the recent arc had stuff that even seemed too graphic for HBO. They'd almost certainly have to tone it down no matter where it lands. Even then, it's such an off-the-wall comic that I have a hard time imagining who's going to pick it up.

And Sex Criminals in general is a pretty terrific and utterly hilarious comic book independent of that, too.

I think the changes Paige goes through in this last season of The Americans was really impressive, in that you don't really even notice how much of a change has taken place until you look back on it.

That was far and away the best ad this show has ever had. Which is to say, it was pretty good and actually made me excited for the premiere. It doesn't look like they missed a beat at all following the hard-to-top second season.

It's really strange that the US title seems to be the main angle of Raw now, while the shiny new major championship takes a backseat. Compare that to Smackdown, where Ambrose/Ziggler for the WWE World title is the clear cut main event angle every week.

Kid 1: "He asked me how his dick tastes."

All of that is true, but my point was only that Eva Marie is a difficult anomaly to book around in that she's utterly fucking useless if you need her to do pretty much anything other than be hot. Even someone who's green like Carmella you can do something with. Again, I feel like the argument to be made is that she…

No, the non-TD women were absolutely the heels in that match. Eva Marie was heelish, but the story was that all the faces on the TD team didn't seem to like her anyway.

Because how do you go about treating Eva Marie like a talented athlete? NXT tried that once, and it was… not good.