10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About 2022
4. Triple H Inherited The Best Thing About WWE This Year
The Bloodline are an excellent act with a fascinating, unique and compelling dynamic that has, for the first time in years and years, encouraged WWE fans to map out the road to WrestleMania and allow themselves to think that it might just happen.
Contrived plotting aside - were any member of the stable to actually watch the TV show, many of the misunderstandings that advance the story would be easily clarified - it is excellent material masterfully delivered. It is light and entertaining without compromising the tension and it is serious without tumbling into the melodramatic.
The audience has an an idea of how it will end, but not when, and they want to see the end and don't at the same time. They are luxuriating in the present, they are anxious over Sami being betrayed, but they also want to see him and Kevin Owens prevail over the Usos at WrestleMania. It's perfect.
Invisible camera aside.
It's also a Vince McMahon idea - Zayn's involvement with the Bloodline predates Vince's exit - as, incidentally, was the wildly entertaining spectacle that was the SummerSlam main event.
Triple H has advanced it, in collaboration with Heyman and the trusted players involved, but it's not quite a true test of his booking prowess in 2022. The man has done a commendable job with Solo Sikoa, but this storyline - quite fittingly - exists on something of an island of its own. There's a marked difference between this programme and virtually everything else that falls under the Levesque/Prichard/creative team umbrella, in that it is very, very good.
Triple H has in fact failed that first test already...