10 Changes That Would Enhance WWE's TV
6. Engaging Backstage Segments
It's almost impressive how similarly fake every single backstage segment looks nowadays. Just compare the backstage vignettes from the early-2000s to the ones in 2018, the difference is almost laughable.
Between those red or blue rooms that have their brand's graphic frozen on a TV behind them to the segments where a wrestler is just awkwardly watching a broadcast of the show (usually standing next to the TV and somehow looking at it?) , the sets themselves usually don't resemble any sort of "backstage" area that actually exists.
In most backstage segments, the camera work and conversations with interviewers will also come across as very odd. Many wrestlers are also just bad at handling them, not knowing how to act outside of a wrestling ring and coming across incredibly awkward.
Between the sets and the interactions with the interviewers, the older style always seemed to present itself as an actual "backstage" segment, and in turn were a lot more realistic. WWE's current format comes across just as forced as the commentary team.