12 Reasons WWE’s Ruthless Aggression Documentary Is An Absolute Mess
6. Fantasy Vs Reality
In Michael Rapaport, WWE has a literal unreliable narrator for the Ruthless Aggression docuseries, but he's at least just reading the script he's been paid to overenunciate. He leaves the meat of the story to both Bruce Prichard and Brian Gewirtz.
The difference in their tone and timbre is stark. Gewirtz is a man so gleefully and comfortably separated from the world he inhabited for so long that he can speak with a certain freedom on the realities of the situations without burying the company outright. Prichard, conversely, steers so hard in the other direction that it's hard not to imagine his entire memory not being tinted by his recent reintroduction to the fold.
Everything good he offers to his podcast is absent here - the convivial and cordial relationship with Conrad lost to a caricature of mouthpiece treading too carefully to say anything worthy of note. He was actually f*cking there - why does it feel like he's talking about the company he left in 2008?