10 Ups & 0 Downs From AEW Dynamite (25 Jan - Review)
6. Family Therapy
There were perhaps better weeks for this particular brand of levity, but All Elite Wrestling has shown itself to be a company delicate enough to deal with reality's harshest light enough times that The Acclaimed and Gunn Club's silliness contributed as much to the variety show vibe as anything in front of the live crowd.
More Sports Entertainment than half the stuff the Jericho Appreciation Society and/or Saraya and Toni Storm have gotten up to so far, this story is proof that there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the philosophy when it's done well.
Included within here was some useful plausible deniability about exactly why Austin and Colten are a*sholes, giving the vaunted justification for their actions even in the face of the immense popularity of their rivals and Father. It's nothing that threatened to turn the Champions heel either, which is often the risk when delving into the deep-and-meaningful.
Perfectly pitched, this created much-needed motivation behind the nonsense, even if the comedy lowered the ceiling on the Challenger's chances of actually winning the belts.