The WWE wrestlers are amazing. They are great athletes and great actors. That’s not how I’m grading this because I’ve watched wrestling for many years and have written about it for over 25 years on this website. So, I had to put bias aside and grade this as a show, a series, like any other I would watch or tune out of on Netflix. 

Telling the wrestlers stories with their real names is fine, but most wrestling fans already know that information. If the WWE was trying to grab new fans with this series, I doubt that is going to occur.  

The WWE really went behind the scenes, and the access was tremendous. You can see that. But it got slow and boring at times. Maybe there was too much in ring action that the fans were already familiar with. Maybe showing more footage that nobody has ever seen would have been better. If that exists.  

Seeing Paul hug Rhea for winning the title but simultaneously looking at his watch, took away a cool moment. He couldn’t have unplugged for a minute?  

So far there hasn’t been any disagreement between management and the talent. Is it all that copasetic? I can’t believe there shouldn’t be more of that. Considering so many wrestlers come and go, I wonder if they will focus on any of that? Will I hang in long enough to find out?  

The most interesting part of Episode 1 was the fact that the show was running over as Punk and Rollins were grappling. There was more dissension with that rather than the talent vs. Management or even talent vs. talent. 

I felt like this was a slog. I won’t be coming back for more.