It's Official: WWE NXT 2.0 Already Sucks
The show and the rapid way in which Vince was determined to kill the old one has made for an utterly surreal, almost psychedelically awful experience.
Against a trippy headache of a backdrop, the audience is randomly introduced to people. Some debut with the same formulaic "...is coming" copy, while some are just...there. Lash Legend does a talk show and is really over with her audience, like she's a late night mainstay, and not somebody who just rocked up one week right out of the blue. Von Wagner has just saved Kyle O'Reilly!
Who the f*ck is Von Wagner?
Other than an almost pitifully unprepared TV babyface who is so bad at acting his miscast role that perhaps Claire Lynch had a baby after all.
NXT 2.0 is like the eighth season of a sitcom that the real stars have left behind, replaced by apparent relatives that nobody had talked about, at all, throughout the preceding seven. And, because it is a latter period Vince McMahon production, it already finds itself boring after about a month, leading to yet more tabs of WTF melting on one's tongue. Duke Hudson became a poker player suddenly and for some reason. Don't take bumps then. You're probably winning more than you're being paid. NXT 2.0 is a relentless procession of new things, none of which register. You see, the WWE Superstar must be larger than life. They must have a character. The characters are drawn in one hilarious dimension, of course, but that's Bruce and Vince for you.
NXT 2.0 is actually more of a disaster than it appears to be on the surface.
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