Growing up I didn't have Sky Sports, I only had Sky 1 and TNT. So my wrestling fix was often Livewire on a Saturday, which made everything look awesome (even if Michael Cole and Kevin Kelly hosted). For PPVs I'd go around my friends and watch, so I wonder if that's why I think the 90s were amazing. I only ever saw the highlight and hype videos!
Makes sense. I was thinking about how they have got the NXT format down to a science. One hour show, three or four matches, quick interviews, video packages explaining the context, some in-ring shenanigan; time is just well spent, everything has a purpose and everything either hypes the matches or set up other matches.
And you can't even say "oh, it was a 'rassling now, not a sports entertainment show", whatever the difference is because it does have soap opera, comedy characters, cartoonish gimmicks, it just... it works. It could be that is better written than RAW, and while it may be true, it's just a general philosophy of few long matches, no recapping of what just happened, nothing is done too much. So I'll try to simulate that by only watching the one-hour recaps, because 3 hours of a show I know it will piss me off with "earlier tonigh" is starting to feel like work and not fun.