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Post by robeiae on May 6, 2021 16:43:22 GMT -5
Premiering tonight at 9 pm on Vice, The Brian Pillman story.
There's a ton of stuff with Pillman, so the episode is two hours long. And should be interesting to see of his son--currently in AEW--is a big part of it. I know Jericho is narrating and I heard Stone Cold did an interview for the show, as well, along with Bischoff and others.
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Post by Optimus on May 6, 2021 17:30:19 GMT -5
The first episode/hour appeared online a couple of days ago (I don't have cable). Already watched that one and it was pretty good. Looking forward to hour 2.
This has been a surprisingly good series so far. The Chris Benoit episodes last season were exceptional and pulled no punches.
(I say surprisingly because it's produced by Vice, whose web reporting is often woke-fueled garbage but their video productions have usually been pretty good.)
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Post by robeiae on May 14, 2021 9:00:40 GMT -5
Dark Side of Football premiered last night. It was about Chad Johnson in particular and "diva" wide receivers in general.
And it was shit. Don't bother with it. This episode was mostly a platform for Johnson and others to whine. Jemele Hill made an appearance and unsurprisingly played the race card, arguing that if Johnson has been white, he would have been treated better. Someone else compared Johnson to Brady, as if the two were comparable in any way whatsoever. The show barely delved into the domestic violence and didn't mention Johnson's kids--he's got like eight with multiple women he never married--and the child support payments he missed in the past.
The great thing about Dark Side of the Ring is that they don't spare anyone, no punches are pulled. The first of the football series isn't like that at all. Really, there's nothing "dark" about it.
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Post by Optimus on May 14, 2021 19:02:08 GMT -5
Huh, didn't even know about that show. Guess I'm glad I didn't? lol
I also didn't watch this week's episode of DSoTR because it was about Nick Gage and I've never heard of him, so didn't know if I'd be interested enough in it. Did you watch it, Rob?
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Post by robeiae on May 14, 2021 19:12:45 GMT -5
No, I'm with you there. I think heard is name once, but I know nothing about him. I'll probably watch the episode down the road, when I happen to to come across it while channel surfing.
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Post by robeiae on May 14, 2021 19:27:43 GMT -5
And one of the subjects of Dark Side has just passed away:
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Post by Optimus on May 14, 2021 20:31:07 GMT -5
Saw the news earlier. I feel bad for his family, I guess, but he was a cruel, sadistic, psychotic asshole so I'm not shedding any tears.
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Post by robeiae on May 15, 2021 7:54:10 GMT -5
Yeah, he has a lot to answer for, which the episode on him--that he participated in--made abundantly clear (which goes back to my earlier point: Dark Side of the Ring is actually dark, as opposed to this fanboyish Dark Side of Football).
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Post by Optimus on May 30, 2021 16:18:41 GMT -5
Ultimate Warrior episode was interesting but didn't really reveal much that wasn't already common knowledge, imo.
He couldn't wrestle his way out of a paper bag, was a narcissist and asshole to pretty much everyone he encountered, and only got pushed/popular because of his overly 'roided out physique.
I thought McMahon's termination letter to Warrior was pretty funny. I knew Warrior had moonlighted as a failed motivational speaker but I didn't know of his turn to more hard right views.
All in all, decent episode but not nearly as good as past ones.
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Post by robeiae on May 31, 2021 7:57:40 GMT -5
The thing about the Warrior episode is that it follows a biography on him that was on A&E, that tried to present him as far more of a "hero" than he ever was. He was gigantic asshole, too much of an asshole for even the other assholes (like McMahon). I was glad they did that one because while this is common knowledge to thinking fans, there remains a bunch of WWE dumbasses who actually think Warrior was something special.
It's telling that Borden (Sting) didn't sit for an interview. He's been pretty mum on Hellwig, especially since Hellwig's death. In contrast, Hellwig would talk shit about Borden every chance he got. Asshole. That's the word for him. Dictionaries should say "see: Hellwig" under "asshole."
ETA: Also, is it weird that A&E is an owner of Vice? But I guess A&E feels like it needs to kiss the WWE's ass to keep their partnership going.
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Post by Optimus on May 31, 2021 14:45:48 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard bad things about the A&E biography series. Haven't seen any of them, just heard that they're basically hagiographies of WWE stars, crafted to tell the redacted, sugar-coated stories that WWE wants told.
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Post by prozyan on Jun 1, 2021 22:01:21 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Jun 4, 2021 19:23:37 GMT -5
Watched In the Shadow of Grizzly Smith, the now-deceased wrestler and father of several other wrestlers, most notably Jake the Snake Roberts.
Ummm...
If the Benoit episode was horrific and the Owen Hart episode was tragic, this episode was just brutal, emotionally, even though much of it was understated. Very rough.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 14, 2021 8:24:04 GMT -5
So, the episode on the Dynamite Kid (Tom Billington) was pretty good, though I think it missed an opportunity to really highlight how Billington should have been a cautionary tale for the wrestling world, one that--if heeded--might have prevented a lot of heartbreak going forward, maybe even with guys like Benoit.
McMahon is barely mentioned in the story, yet still manages to come off like a giant piece of shit.
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Post by Optimus on Jun 14, 2021 16:20:41 GMT -5
McMahon is barely mentioned in the story, yet still manages to come off like a giant piece of shit. He certainly has a natural talent for coming off that way no matter what. |
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