How AEW Must Reheat Its Biggest Monster

Anna Jay attempted to interfere throughout. Conti wasn't receptive to it. At the finish, Stu Grayson and Evil Uno emerged from the tunnel, again, just in frame. As is so often the case, there's something in the symmetry here. On this week's Being The Elite, the Dark Order tried to rally John Silver with their chants of "F*ck Hangman! F*ck Hangman!"

Page, drunk and down, joined in. He told himself to f*ck off in a quietly devastating moment of self-deprecation. Page is the anxious millennial cowboy, and the Dark Order exist in the AEW universe to prey on the anxieties of the weak to bolster their ranks.

For these attentive details and so much else, AEW Dynamite is an exceptional wrestling television programme. If it's missing one quite crucial element, difficult as it is to elicit the old feeling, it's the big heat angle. Entertaining and intriguing as the ongoing Inner Circle mystery is, we're almost left to infer that they're still a dominant group. Eddie Kingston's Family are great, but they seem to exist now to drive storylines within the group itself. The Dark Order, to get the heat back on Mr. Brodie Lee, must resurface as a more serious threat and not indulge John Silver too much, fabulous as he is in the role. The tonal range is important, but there's a more important match to build: Mr. Brodie Lee Vs. Hangman Page.

The cerebral monster versus the man who could elevate the Dark Order to a level beyond.

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