10 Surprising Things We Learned From 'WWE 365: Kevin Owens'

10. Unreliable Narrator

A note first on Michael Rapaport, and celebrity narrators working with the company in general following the equally odd decision to cast William Shatner in the role for the excellent 2015 Network project Breaking Ground.

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The podcast host, director and actor may have had an arresting impact on Phoebe Buffay during his four-episode run as her love interest on Friends, but he needs locking up for a distracting and over-egged performance linking together the key times and dates on this documentary.

In truth, the production needed no such fluff.

Unusually for WWE, the concept was crystal clear and the execution was largely flawless - '365' would track every day in the full year of Kevin Owens separated by SummerSlams 2016 and 2017. Phenomenal production anchored the piece as always, with all key times, places and dates accounted for along with absorbing footage of his antics on and off screen.

The one thing it didn't need was 1980s delivery of 1990s dialogue adding faux-pathos to a story loaded with heft on its own merit.

Rapaport's attachment to the vehicle perhaps added curiosity views and/or Network subscribers this one time, but his role hopefully won't be as required for future editions.

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