A bad storyline made worse by the personnel swallowed into its maw, the Johnny Gargano/Miz/Dexter Lumis bullsh*t triangle could be stacked up next to the likes of the Dawn Marie/Al Wilson/Torrie Wilson nonsense from Paul Heyman's SmackDown Six era if the rest of Raw came even remotely close to producing that level of consistent quality. Triple H should know all about that - he was destroying the red brand as its World Champion in opposition at the time.
As it doesn't though, it instead exists as a monument to 'The Game' having the capacity to make bad choices and see them through rather than rectifying them before it's too late. Lumis and Miz' feud being predicated on 'The A-Lister's influencer paranoia is stupid and riddled with plot-holes, and Gargano's casting as the whistle-blowing bastardised Columbo character is nightmarish.
And that specific issue isn't isolated to Gargano...
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