10 Ways WWE Was Made Worse By Being Lazy
4. Chat Shows
When was the last time a WWE Superstar really resonated as a WWE Superstar within the chat show format?
The chat show segment exists to give talents valuable promo time, but it never works, because the format is so worthless. A tacky sports entertainment trope, it removes the competitive atmosphere and instead creates a damning air of light entertainment. The material is invariably hacky, and lame, because if there's a babyface playing off the Miz, for example, the attempt to emulate witty late-night banter just comes across as forced and divorced entirely from the point. They're not promoting a rom-com in there, using magnetism and charisma to convince the audience of their disarming charm. It's pretext to a fight, or it should be, something the presentation of a weigh-in or a training montage is far more suited to.
Nobody ever watched a slick verbal exchange laced with condescending putdowns in place of real, dangerous tensions and was driven to bloodlust.
And yet, because it's an established, easy trope, WWE returns to it constantly. A Moment of Bliss is the latest rehearsed, phoney exercise in silencing RAW crowds who turned up to watch a wrestling event.
And you thought the librarian was an AEW gimmick.