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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I thought Heels was very well done and very well acted.

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I remember reading Heath McCoys excellent Stampede Wrestling book where the Great Gamma talked about the behind the curtain where the Heels were the nice guys in real life, always went home to their families. The Faces were the hard partiers and the not very nice people. It was the same here. The super popular face brother, was chewing Oxy, snorting coke, was pretty horrible to his girl friend when he got his opportunity, that's likely gone now. Acted like an a%% in public, didn't understand the business at all.


Meanwhile the brother who played the face was the responsible family man, he has some ego issues but overall he's just that good guy outside of the ring.


Loved the scene where he was stopped at a railway crossing and he gave these little kids the mean look and they ran for the hills and he drove away laughing.


I felt so bad for the Face's girlfriend, she just wants to break into the business, but she's not taken seriously.


The grizzled vet who came down to the DWL to scout out Ace, he was suppossed to be a combination of Macho Man and Jake the Snake, encouraging Ace to stiff his brother in the ring.


The ending wasn't quite a Montreal Screw Job, it felt more like the Hulk Hogan story of him being in training and a veteran said "So you want to be a wrestler kid?" Then posted and broke his leg.


So we got basically a double turn as the audience turned on the hero and really on the DWL because of the quick finish of a main event match. Meanwhile the Heel did what he had to do to protect his business, while destroying his brothers chance at going to the big leagues, and practically wrecking his own business to protect the story.

Watched the first episode the other day- Was well done, interested to see where it's going