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Are professional wrestlers just the worlds most muscular theater kids?
The result was less like the WWEs usual played-to-the-rafters gladiatorial spectacle and more liketech weekfor a black-box production.
It showcased the performers at their weirdest, wildest, and most, well, theatrical.
On Fridays episode ofSmackdown, things got downright goofy.
I never saw her coming!
(Real sporting events, needless to say, arent scripted.)
The wrestlers followed suit.
Nikki Cross tried to get a crowd chant going.
(Triple Hs deadpan response: Its amazing how comfortable Miz and Morrison are without crowd noise.
Its like it happens all the time.)
Why not continueSmackdowns experiments with form and the fourth wall?
Which is not to say the show was without its funny moments, both intentional and otherwise.
It should be said that on both shows, actual wrestling was an afterthought.
(It was, admittedly, a banger.)
In the meantime, more self-effacing jokes, more dramatic monologues, and more overall weirdness, hey.
You cant hear us, but well be cheering for it.
