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Podcast: Wrestling Is Real Wrestling Podcast
Episode: WWE: Unreal Exposes No Script, No Structure, and Improvised Booking
Description: "They spent less than 10 minutes in the writer's room". Netflix’s WWE: Unreal docuseries may have promised to pull back the curtain on the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling—but it also unintentionally revealed just how thin that curtain really is. Across multiple episodes and interviews, what stands out most is not just the backstage access or production secrets, but the shocking admission that WWE’s writing process often consists of planning by booking committee with no ownership, except for a small inner circle of executives making major calls while agents and producers scramble to fill in the gaps on the...