Friday, June 29, 2018

2017-18 TV Season Recap, Part Two

Previous TV Season Recaps – (2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17)

2017-18 TV Season Recap - Part One (Gotham, Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Jessica Jones, Punisher) | Part Three (Glow, Arrested Development, Luke Cage)

Roseanne – I have no idea what drove Roseanne to go on her racist Twitter tirade that made ABC cancel the show, only to see them shortly thereafter renege and announce the show back for a second season this fall without Roseanne Barr in the show and redub it as The Connors. I was able to keep up with the show on a weekly basis and finished the season the day before Roseanne’s ill-fated tweets. It seemed it took the cast a couple episodes to get the chemistry gelling again after being away from each other for 20 years, but by episode three they were back to form and I was adjusted to how all the returning cast looked and sounded. The first season back had me itching to see which old recurring characters they would bring back and I could not help but crack a smile for every favorite that made a one or two episode return.

The new generation of Connor grandchildren the show debuts all have unique personalities and all three proved themselves worthy of the Connor name. Props to whomever responsible for retcon-ing Dan’s death out of the show and the opening bit on the season premiere ragging on the awful season nine ending. It was great to see the original cast back again, but poor DJ and his kid were not all that featured this season and only in a handful of episodes. Becky and especially Darlene standout as the two main leads on this show. Becky has a fascinating arc watching her attempt to put her life back together after her husband’s death and Darlene has hit rock bottom moving back home with her two kids after divorcing from David. Just like the show was throughout its first run, it deals with some controversial themes and runs with their take on them for better or worse. Regardless, it made for some great TV and I will definitely be there for whatever form the show returns in this fall. Grade: A-

South Park – For the third straight season, South Park rolls out a season-long narrative arc. However, it is not a grand epic arc like the previous two seasons, but more like two or three supporting arcs playing out throughout the year. Cartman & Heidi’s relationship has some unexpected twists and turns throughout the season, and the same can be said for PC Principal and newcomer, Strong Woman. The show is all over the place too with other random themes, be it outrage for Columbus Day, protesting rights for Neanderthals, nuking Canada and a much-needed spoof of Stranger Things that depicts the children of South Park jamming out to the ‘Super Bowl Shuffle.’ I was not super gung-ho on this season of the show, but I was not super against it either as it has better staying power than other long-running adult animated shows such as The Simpsons and Family Guy. Grade: B

Evil Genius – This Netflix exclusive series was a quick watch a little over two hours all together. It is a four part docu-series that breaks down the crime of the dreaded ‘Pizza Bomber’ bank robbery/murder. I am always a sucker for in-depth crime mysteries, and taking in all the peculiar characters involved here was fun to follow along with. Things unravel some in the final part where the series presents its final verdict on the investigation in a way that I could not 100% buy into and thus why I had to go down a letter grade, but I still recommend binging through it with your thinking cap on! Grade: B

Riverdale – This is not based on the wholesome, all-American Archie comics we all grew up with. Season two of Riverdale keeps up the edgy, murder-mystery high school soap opera that the first season debuted. It is essentially Beverly Hills 90210 meets Veronica Mars. The show is unapologetically progressive with a diverse mix of characters and switches up some characteristics of the cast from how they were portrayed for decades in print. For those that might read that and get up in arms rest assured most of the cast are near-perfect portrayals of how I remember them. They even achieved the impossible and made Jughead’s trademark hat somehow work on the show.

Some episodes go a little too over-the-top as it seems Riverdale will experiment with any number of show themes be it related to camming, fictitious new drugs dominating the school, gang wars, attempted rape, sexuality, death by a hundred knives and while they were at it, they also gave a go of attempting a musical for one episode. Why not? More episodes hit than miss, and the season spanning mystery here of Archie and his ‘Red Circle’ tracking down the murderer known as ‘The Black Hood’ kept me glued in every episode. While Riverdale evolves Archie and the gang for the modern age, they still keep plenty of references to its old-school roots with the standout nod being a lovingly nostalgic 50s ‘Pop’s Cock-lit Shop.’ Grade: A

Orville – I desperately wanted to enjoy this more than I actually did. This is Seth McFarlane’s take on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Since it is Seth at the helm, it is filled with his style of Family Guy-esque humor….which does not jive while simultaneously trying to be a serious live action sci-fi show. TNG’s humor was more of the dry variety, but obviously that is not Seth’s style. They dial the jokes back somewhat after the first couple episodes, but whenever a McFarlane-esque joke pops in it instantly ruins the flow of a show that otherwise does a pretty solid homage to TNG with an equally comparable and affable crew that proudly wears its inspirations. Seth portrays the captain of the ship, and is surprisingly good in the lead role, and most of the cast is also commendable, minus his first officer who is responsible for most of the out-of-place humor. A few episodes I really dug, but the jokes eventually just took me out of an otherwise fine sci-fi show which I unfortunately had to stop watching halfway through the season. Grade: B-

Past TV/Web Series Blogs

2013-14 TV Season Recap
2014-15 TV Season Recap
2015-16 TV Season Recap
2016-17 TV Season Recap
Adventures of Briscoe County Jr: The Complete Series
Angry Videogame Nerd Volumes 7-9
Mortal Kombat: Legacy - Season 1
OJ: Made in America: 30 for 30
RedvsBlue - Seasons 1-13
Roseanne – Seasons 1-9
Seinfeld Final Season
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
Superheroes: Pioneers of Television
The Vietnam War: A Ken Burns series
X-Men – The Animated Series: Volumes 4-5

2017-18 TV Season Recap, Part One

Previous TV Season Recaps – (2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17)

2017-18 TV Season Recap - Part 2 (South Park, Roseanne, Evil Genius, Orville, Riverdale) | Part Three (Glow, Arrested Development, Luke Cage)

Greetings and welcome to my annual TV season recap! Enjoy as I ramble on about nearly a dozen of the TV shows I attempted to keep up with throughout the television year. Please check out the links above for past installments of my TV recaps. I am splitting this year’s installment into two parts for now. Part one here will feature my breakdowns of the six shows based on comic books I followed while part two will feature everything else! In a few months like last year I will add a bonus part covering three or four more shows I plan to binge throughout the summer. Enough with the intro, let us get onto the year of television that was 2017-18.

Gotham – I have no idea where to begin on the fourth season of Gotham. Like I mentioned in past annual recaps, since season two Gotham went kind of bonkers and dove deep bringing in a wide array of vintage Batman villains. A lot of them you may have seen from prior cartoons and films, while many others are getting their on-screen debut in Gotham. Plenty of past recurring villains return along with some new ones to keep me on my toes for each episode. The primary villains this season after Gordon and Harvey put away early filler head villain ‘The Pyg’ in a enjoyable several episode arc early in the season are Ra’s al Ghul and the Jerome/Jeremiah brothers that many of us know better as The Joker, even though the show does not officially label them as such. Gordon’s old love interests Barb and Lee both get some sadistic twists this season with Barb getting some unexpected powers as she clashes with Ra’s and Lee becoming a crime lord of sorts when she teams up with The Riddler and becomes known as the ‘Queen of the Narrows.’

I will nitpick a little bit because season three ended with a tease of Bruce donning his first set of the classic caped crusader costume as he sought out vigilante justice. The fourth season quickly backtracks away from that within a couple episodes as Bruce realizes he is in over his head after some early failures and he winds up going on a depressing party binge for several episodes and betraying the love-able Alfred to go out and party before finally coming to his senses. That said I am amazed at how Gotham managed to juggle its mammoth ensemble cast with almost something to do for every character this season. On almost any other show I would be irate for the lame explanations for characters cheating death and constantly coming back. I can get on board with the unbelievable returns in Gotham due to how off the rails the show has become by this point. Only way a person stays dead in Gotham is via bazooka. I was disheartened to see FOX announce that Bruce Wayne’s version of Smallville will come to an end with this fall’s fifth season being the last, and being only a half season at that. At least that gives the writers several episodes to wrap up this insanely awesome Batman project. Grade: A-

Arrow – Season six of The Arrow means it is time to rejoice since there are no longer any more flashback periphery story arcs. Since Oliver is now the mayor of Star City, that means there are numerous enemies constantly trying to frame him and remove him from office, and while they are at it continue the laughable annual trend of trying to expose Oliver as the Green Arrow. The season gets a little messy with the core of Team Arrow splitting up for more than half the season and constantly being at odds with each other while the primary antagonists have some surprising twists of their own. I will give my supporting character MVP this season to Quentin Lance as the only one who stood loyal to Oliver through thick and thin this season while nearly the rest of the entire cast was at odds with Olly at one point or another this season.

That is saying a ton too as Quentin has his own season-spanning arc where he encounters another Earth’s version of his daughter, Laurel and never gives up on her despite her sinister ways and it seems like a laughably lost cause from the get go, but Quentin’s resilience and perseverance paid off after many weeks of effort in a way I was not anticipating. Arrow featured a dramatic season finale which will surely have profound changes for the series going into next season. There were a few missteps during the course of this season, but it managed to find its footing by the end and got me back on board again. Grade: B+

The Flash – I hate to see this trend, but the fourth season of The Flash continues the downward trajectory of the series after an underwhelming third season. The problem here is with the season-spanning villain Clifford DeVoe, aka, The Thinker. Thinker is after the unique energy force from a group of metas that got their powers on a mysterious explosion on a bus. So the whole season sees Team Flash try to track down each ‘bus meta’ one-by-one, but only consistently fail to protect them and see them fall victim to having their life force harvested by The Thinker. Most of these battles that play out are depressing to watch to see the Flash regularly disposed of with ease. One of the bus metas, Ralph, winds up joining Team Flash, but his forced humor is cringe-inducing and his run on the show went far longer than it had any right to be. The only reason this managed to stay above the ‘D’ range is because the series continues one of its positive trends of a great Christmas party scene and an awesome wedding between Barry and Iris that was at the core of a fun four-part crossover event with all four CW DC shows. Grade:C-

Legends of Tomorrow – Legends of Tomorrow was the surprise hit of the DC Arrow-verse this year. Its first two seasons were decent with their fair share of highs and lows, but ultimately suffered with a huge cast that stretched episodes thin to cram everyone in. The team on Legends got it right for season three by dialing back the cast a little (which means some heartbreaking moments this season) and somehow achieving the impossible by making Steel marginally less of a dope and even having an episode he excelled in what was my favorite episode of the season with its take on the classic film, Groundhog’s Day. CW must have had a serious makeover to the writer staff this season because at first I grimaced when they added the insufferable Wally West from Flash to the Legends team halfway through the season, but his personality surprisingly meshed well with the team and he blended right in! Sarah Lance is also coming into her own now as the group leader, and the intentionally campy-yet-amazing Damien Darhk and his daughter are the perfect season-long foils for the legends. A throwaway gag in a midseason episode in the form of a cuddly stuffed animal called, Beebo, returns in a memorable way for a surprisingly awesome season finale! Having its season not as padded out and several episodes shorter compared to the other CW DC shows also significantly helps. Grade: A-

Jessica Jones – The second season of JJ on Netflix was a surprise step down from its unforgettable debut season. It is still one of the stronger Marvel Netflix series, and a big step up from Defenders and Iron Fist. The second season starts out strong with Jess meeting some new neighborhood characters setting up the season and the affable Malcom stepping up his role as Jessica’s assistant. After a few episodes things start to gradually unravel though with Trish relapsing and her arc slowly evolving from curious to cringe-worthy by the end of the season. Jeri’s periphery arc is also frustratingly inconclusive and vague and seems to be there for more shock than substance. The season shapes up midway through when Jones reconnects with figures from her past that the show does not paint in a bright light. Jessica Jones does not seem to care to drive home the destination point of this season and I could not help but feel the undertones from the cast this season in their body language read something like, “you are not going to particularly care how this season wraps up, it is just going to be there.” And that is exactly what happened, with the show doubling down on new characters this season that are not fun to root for or against and are essentially a nonfactor by the end of the season.

One last nagging point I have to touch on is Jess is her usual badass self most of this season threatening to rip people’s spines out for not divulging her info. However, at a couple crisis points this season she uncharacteristically gets pouty when it comes time to walk past the metaphorical ‘line’ she bemoans “I’m not a killer” before offing some painfully stereotypical antagonizing prison guard in one of the low points of the season. The second season feels like a wash by the end to wipeout all the good momentum established in the first half, including an awesome prequel episode set several years before the first season that wound up as one of the season’s few saving graces combined with a few other strong early episodes to prevent this from hitting the C range. Grade: B-

The Punisher - If you know me, I am a huge Punisher mark, so this summary is admittedly a bit biased. Season two of Daredevil was a great introduction of the character, but Punisher’s own self-titled Netflix exclusive series dives deep into his psyche. As expected, a lot about his origin is constantly referenced throughout for the impetus for him going on his crusade. The PMC group Punisher squares off against is a formidable foe for Frank to go to war with, and I also thought the producers managed to walk that fine line for a secondary villain this season who is a middle east veteran suffering from PTSD who gradually loses before taking matters into his own hands. Rest assured there is plenty of action in each episode, and easily more than any of the other Marvel Netflix series.

They still sprinkle in a good back story for some breathing room, and Franks does not waste a word of his intentional limited dialogue as every word he speaks means business. The person Frank interacts with for his tech-backup is a good sidekick, but not worthy of the Micro name as the Netflix version veers off in some significant ways than how he was portrayed in the comics, but they capture the core of Micro’s role providing tech support for Frank. Micro’s family played a little more into the overall plot than I thought they would, but by the end of the season I thought they all earned their spot on the show and I was invested in their arc. As a die-hard Punisher fan this is a near-flawless portrayal of him, and this debut season easily surpasses all prior on-screen representations of him and I loving the tease for the villain they have in store for Frank in season two. Grade: A

Past TV/Web Series Blogs

2013-14 TV Season Recap
2014-15 TV Season Recap
2015-16 TV Season Recap
2016-17 TV Season Recap
Adventures of Briscoe County Jr: The Complete Series
Angry Videogame Nerd Volumes 7-9
Mortal Kombat: Legacy - Season 1
OJ: Made in America: 30 for 30
RedvsBlue - Seasons 1-13
Roseanne – Seasons 1-9
Seinfeld Final Season
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
Superheroes: Pioneers of Television
The Vietnam War: A Ken Burns series
X-Men – The Animated Series: Volumes 4-5

Monday, June 25, 2018

The Equalizer

I have wax nostalgic on here before how the stereotypical one-man army/vigilante flicks are a huge guilty pleasure of mine. Most of those films were campy 80s/90s action classics of the Schwarzenegger/Stallone variety. Hollywood grew out of them it seemed for the longest time, but in 2014 we got two awesome contemporary takes on the one-man army genre and they both hit theaters within a month of each other. John Wick is one of those films (which I hope to cover here eventually), but the one we are focusing on today is The Equalizer (trailer).

Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington leads this film as Robert McCall. He is a man of habit trying to continue living peacefully in a new life, but trouble keeps finding his way and ultimately it results in him bringing back a cold-blooded military persona that he thought he permanently shelved. I loved all the little quirks The Equalizer introduces about Robert early on like his obsession with reading all the books on the ‘100 Must-Reads’ list and guiding every task he is about to embark on to his trusty stopwatch.

The movie establishes sympathy in the introductory scenes for Teri (Chloe Grace Moretz), a young woman trapped in the sex-slave industry but keeps bumping into Robert late night at a local 24-hour diner that both frequent. After seeing Teri repeatedly get awful treatment from her management, Robert decides to take matters into his own hands and deal with Teri’s superiors in a glorious scene that transpires in all of 16 seconds (sort of). This leads to the Russian mob sending their top sleuth/hitman simply known as ‘Teddy’ (Marton Csokas) to track Robert down and take him out.

Once Robert finds out the Russian mob is onto him, he goes in full on ‘awww hell no’ mode and procedurally shuts down the Russian mob’s entire New York operation throughout the film as he takes out corrupt cops and lieutenants working directly for the Russians and eventually even their entire money laundering operation in another stunning scene. During his down time, he is working his day job at the Lowe’s knockoff ‘Home Mart’ and helps motivate his affable coworker Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis) cut weight to pass the security guard test, what a guy!

If you cannot tell by now, The Equalizer does a perfect job at setting up Robert McCall as the love-able hero that you want to see give the Russians their just deserts. Denzel knocks the role out of the park, especially when I learned that he reconnected here with the same director (Antoine Fuqua) he worked with in Training Day that lead to him winning a Best Actor Oscar. If there is something to nitpick here it would be that McCall is rarely in peril throughout the film since he is consistently two-steps ahead of the Russians. The Russians finally appear to get an ace up their sleeve when they kidnap Robert’s coworkers, but then they make the mistake of inviting McCall for their final battle at the ‘ol Home-Mart that Robert knows like the back of his hand and is full of countless types of DIY weaponry that McCall takes advantage of in a climatic final showdown. I will give Denzel a pass here for not taking too much of a beating here, since it is a riot watching him constantly one-up the Russians throughout.

There is about an hour of extra features on the BluRay. ‘Vengeance Mode’ is billed as a second viewing experience with 23 minutes of interview clips pasted in before pivotal scenes of the movie that Denzel & Fuqua break down and reminisce over. They are insightful interviews, but I would have preferred a commentary track from the duo instead. Aside from that there are six shorter extras all under 10 minutes each. All of them are nice short collections of interviews dealing with various themes such as praise for ‘The Equalizer’ character, shooting the fights and love for Denzel & Fuqua. All are quick, worthwhile watches, but if you only had time for one I would recommend jumping into Inside Equalizer first.

There is too much to love in The Equalizer and I feel bad for holding off this long to watch it again. The film is brilliantly casted from top-to-bottom and has perfect heroes and villains to cheer and jeer. It is well paced and has a fitting score throughout that pipes in at all the right moments. If you have been longing for one-man army films since the previous century than you will not go wrong with The Equalizer. I will also give thanks to the NBA Finals for which The Equalizer 2 sponsored game two of the series and I was not aware of the follow-up until then and that motivated me to bump Equalizer out of the backlog box before the successor hit theaters!

Other Random Backlog Movie Blogs

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12 Angry Men (1957)
12 Rounds 3: Lockdown
21 Jump Street
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
Atari: Game Over
The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Bounty Hunters
Cabin in the Woods
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Christmas Eve
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Clint Eastwood 11-pack Special
The Condemned 2
Countdown
Creed
Deck the Halls
Dredd
The Eliminators
Dirty Work
Faster
Fast and Furious I-VIII
Field of Dreams
Fight Club
The Fighter
For Love of the Game
Good Will Hunting
Gravity
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hercules: Reborn
Hitman
Ink
The Interrogation
Joy Ride 1-3
Interstellar
Jobs
Man of Steel
Man on the Moon
Marine 3-5
Mortal Kombat
National Treasure
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
The Replacements
Reservoir Dogs
Rocky I-VII
Running Films Part 1
Running Films Part 2
San Andreas
ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Shoot em Up
Steve Jobs
Source Code
Star Trek I-XIII
Take Me Home Tonight
TMNT
The Tooth Fairy 1 & 2
UHF
Veronica Mars
Vision Quest
The War
Wild
Wonder Woman
The Wrestler (2008)
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Monday, June 4, 2018

Straight Outta Dudleyville: The Legacy of the Dudley Boyz

In 2015 one of the most decorated tag teams in history, the Dudley Boyz, made their return to the WWE. Their return run only lasted a year, but during that time they filmed interviews for their first ever feature-length documentary from WWE that spans their entire career. That DVD/BluRay hit in 2016 with the then-trendy title of Straight Outta Dudleyville: The Legacy of the Dudley Boyz (trailer).

Bubba and D-Von are interviewed together on the night they returned to WWE as new surprise foils for the New Day in August 2015. There are also new one-on-one interviews with both Bubba and D-Von separately and are used appropriately throughout the feature. These new interviews from the Dudleyz are perfectly supplemented with all-new interviews from their past friends, peers and rivals such as Johnny Rodz, Tazz, Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Sign Guy Dudley, Spike Dudley, Rhyno, Lance Storm, APA, Mick Foley, Rob Van Dam, Edge & Christian and yes even Konnor of the Ascension gets a couple of his own soundbites too.

The documentary feels about the perfect length at just under 75 minutes. Both Bubba and D-Von grew up near each other in the greater New York area and I will give major props to whoever got tasked with highlighting adolescent-aged Bubba and D-Von in the crowd at various WWE events as proof of their lifelong fandom. I dug D-Von’s old-school training tales with Johnny Rodz, but Bubba’s story of his training is unlike any other I have heard to the point he will not give credit to his trainer in the doc and is an early must-see part of the feature! Naturally a wealthy amount of time is dedicated to them breaking in and hitting it big in ECW. Even though I devoured the Best of Dudley Boyz in ECW DVD a couple of times I learned several new things about their time there in this feature such as Bubba’s tryout appearance as a heavy for Bill Alfonso and how Bubba and D-Von initially feuded for several months before aligning to dominate tag team wrestling.

It was fascinating to learn here how trepid the Dudleyz were coming into WWE in 1999 after another former ECW tag team, Public Enemy pissed off the roster and left WWE just as fast as they arrived earlier that same year. Their fears were quickly put to rest after they passed a ‘test’ of sorts Bubba & D-Von broke down with their first feud in WWE against the APA and a few months later getting over with WWE fans after their successful tables match with the Hardyz at Royal Rumble 2000. As I anticipated, a fair amount of time is given to the beloved TLC matches that the Dudleyz, Edge & Christian and the Hardyz made famous. One of the highpoints of the doc is hearing the Dudleyz and Edge & Christian reflect on their TLC memories and how over they were at this point during the wildly successful ‘Attitude Era’ of WWE. It was too bad the Hardyz were in TNA/Impact at the time and not on hand for WWE to interview for Straight Outta Dudleyville.

From there the doc focuses on their surprise split at the inaugural roster split/draft in 2002 and how their singles runs did not work out, but I cracked up at D-Von saying he loved portraying the Brother preacher character and how he wanted to keep doing it. One underwhelming area is how the Dudleyz kind of brush off the last few years of their first WWE run after they reunited from 2002-05 and would have loved to hear some stories from their feuds at that time. Instead they stated they were burnt out and needed a break from WWE and the feature spends only a couple minutes focusing on how the Dudleyz spent a decade ‘making a go at’ TNA/Impact and Japan. It is nothing too in-depth, which is understandable since WWE does not own the footage and part of me is gratified just to see WWE acknowledge that large chunk of their career. The documentary winds down covering the Dudleyz big return (minus the retirement) and with them looking forward to helping out current WWE tag teams with all their years of knowledge.

For extra features, there is about 15 minutes of bonus interview excerpts that did not make the main feature and worth checking out, especially for some fun anecdotes about D-Von and Bubba’s origins of their characters and Mae Young memories. There are 26 matches spanning the Dudleyz’ entire career, four of which are exclusive to the BluRay. There are also several interviews every few matches with the Dudleyz where they reminisce on a pivotal match on this collection such as their big November to Remember ’96 one-on-one clash, WMX-7 TLC and their chaotic blood bath at One Night Stand. Aside from those, other standout matches from the extras that I rank highest from this set are a Dudleyz 6-man tag against Dreamer, Sandman & Spike, the aforementioned tables match against the Hardyz, a forgotten gem against Edge & Christian at the 2001 Rumble, a perfectly executed tag bout I completely forgot about against Mysterio & RVD at Judgment Day 2004 and an Extreme Rules 8-Man tag from their return run with Rhyno & Dreamer against the Wyatt Family. These eight of the 26 matches feature the hottest crowds and tons of great moments where everyone was on their game. While they are not five star classics I would also recommend on this set seeing both D-Von and Bubba take on Triple H in singles matches from their solo runs in 2002 for a tease of what their future had in store for them as singles stars.

Bear with me for a moment, because I want to touch on something special about the One Night Stand 2005 match on this disc where the Dudleyz faced off against Sandman & Tommy Dreamer. Click here first before you watch the match to check out Sandman’s unforgettable, uncensored entrance from that show because as expected, WWE dubbed over Sandman’s Metallica entrance music with generic garbage. Because of that, you miss out on the magic of the crowd loudly singing along while Sandman gets progressively more inebriated by the time he reaches the ring in one of my all-time favorite entrances! Speaking of dubbing, WWE also dubbed over all the matches from the Dudleyz’ WWE run when they started using Powerman 5000’s “Get Up, Get Up” song as their very fitting entrance theme with an older Dudley theme that is at least better than what poor Sandman got dubbed over with.

WWE does not often release too many DVDs dedicated to tag teams, but when they do they make sure to do it right. Minus a couple qualms, I am mostly satisfied with how the documentary covered their lengthy career and again, minus a couple nitpicks WWE did a great job at compiling a stellar array of the Dudleyz’ best matches. Definitely take the time out to check out Straight Outta Dudleyville: The Legacy of the Dudley Boyz as it is a well-crafted tribute to one of the top teams in the business.

Past Wrestling Blogs

Best of WCW Clash of Champions
Best of WCW Monday Nitro Volume 2
Best of WCW Monday Nitro Volume 3
Biggest Knuckleheads
Bobby The Brain Heenan
Daniel Bryan: Just Say Yes Yes Yes
DDP: Positively Living
Dusty Rhodes WWE Network Specials
ECW Unreleased: Vol 1
ECW Unreleased: Vol 2
ECW Unreleased: Vol 3
For All Mankind
Goldberg: The Ultimate Collection
Its Good to Be the King: The Jerry Lawler Story
The Kliq Rules
Ladies and Gentlemen My Name is Paul Heyman
Legends of Mid South Wrestling
Macho Man: The Randy Savage Story
Memphis Heat
NXT Greatest Matches Vol 1
OMG Vol 2: Top 50 Incidents in WCW History
OMG Vol 3: Top 50 Incidents in ECW History
Owen: Hart of Gold
RoH Supercard of Honor 2010-Present
ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery
Sting: Into the Light
Straight to the Top: Money in the Bank Anthology
Superstar Collection: Zach Ryder
TNA Lockdown 2005-2016
Top 50 Superstars of All Time
Tough Enough: Million Dollar Season
True Giants
Ultimate Fan Pack: Roman Reigns
Ultimate Warrior: Always Believe
War Games: WCWs Most Notorious Matches
Warrior Week on WWE Network
Wrestlemania 3: Championship Edition
Wrestlemania 28-Present
The Wrestler (2008)
Wrestling Road Diaries Too
Wrestling Road Diaries Three: Funny Equals Money
Wrestlings Greatest Factions
WWE Network Original Specials First Half 2015
WWE Network Original Specials Second Half 2015
WWE Network Original Specials First Half 2016
WWE Network Original Specials Second Half 2016
WWE Network Original Specials First Half 2017