Hello, and welcome to their SmackDown review. I'm Adam Wilborn from WhatCulture joined by

one of the dadly boys, Michael Hampler from WhatCulture to review everything that happened

on Friday night's episode of SmackDown. But before we get into it, if you're a fan of

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As I said, join by Michael Hampler to review the post-survivors series episode of SmackDown.

I think it was an eventful one, wasn't it? Unlike the Survivors series, in which that might

as well not occurred, based on how flat the buildup was, how nothing the follow through

was. This eventful is the word. I don't know. Was there a time that the praise was

heat upon SmackDown in such a way that we maybe in response to that became slightly over

critical of the show? I don't know, I asked myself this question a lot with this, because

I've not been having a good time with SmackDown early. We've reviewed most of them together

and I think I've been fairly upfront about where I think the show is continuing to look

more and more like RAW. This had stuff happen on it and it was quicker. And typically,

with SmackDown, you can isolate one or two decent individual performances. I don't know,

I just, I don't know, there's a particularly good energy on the show anymore. I think

a lot of what people got out of this for the longest time was that in contrast to RAW,

it felt so alive. It hard not for any wrestler or any starry line or any about with enthusiasm

you might have to just go out there to die on a Monday night. That wasn't the case for

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