4 Ups And 4 Downs From NXT In Your House 2022

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4. Do A Reshoot

If NXT 2.0 really is developmental, then they’ve got to do a better job of having their superstars rehearse and practice delivering the badly scripted lines they’re fed more convincingly.

We feel really bad picking on Roxanne Perez here, and it shouldn’t be her fault that she’s being scripted to deliver such drivel as she did during a backstage interview on Saturday’s In Your House PLE. Perez and Tiffany Stratton were talking about being in the finals of the Women’s Breakout Tournament this Tuesday.

Stratton, for better or worse, knows her character well and delivered her cringey lines just fine. But Perez sounded like she was reading her lines off a cue card in a very stilted voice. Worse, the comments were just cookie-cutter Virtuous Babyface Underdog 101. “I’ve had to work for everything I get… I’m not leaving without that contract.”

Either make them rehearse and reshoot bad takes, or let the performers do their jobs instead of scripting them down to every line, letting them do things more naturally. Because this robotic read-through really took you out of the moment.