10 Ways WWE Can Prove The Critics WRONG At WrestleMania 37
9. ...But Mondays Are More Important
The matches are good because the talent roster is good but this feeling never carries over to television, and the television never enriches those matches, because Vince McMahon is inept and the team of writers he hires aren't there to challenge his baffling and erratic edicts. They are there to script the words of this simpering set of millennials who don't know how to get over.
None of this will happen. You cannot teach an old pal new creative.
But WWE will only ever recover its perception amongst the people who have good taste when they start producing good television. And solid isn't good, or at least good enough anymore. SmackDown is at best solid, overpraised in certain circles against the RAW curve in a bid to feel better about everything. Roman Reigns is a terrific performer, and the talent roster - presumably helped by Daniel Bryan's creative influence - at times forcibly thrusts forward the deadening TV gear Vince McMahon expressly told Shayna Baszler to work in.
But it's all so bereft of energy and angles and expression. Most often fleshed out on the night via the same f*cking contrived expositional administration that has plagued the format for decades, it is old hat sometimes performed incredibly well.
Put on an energetic, immersive wrestling show on the Road to WrestleMania 37 - the ideal time time to do just that - and energised, immersed critics will praise it.
Funny how that works.