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What got me into Dark was a roughly 1-hour episode where it was *just* wrestling. They didn't even have promos. And for a long time -- even when the show started to run longer episodes -- it was still just wrestling and *maybe* the occasional Acclaim video (which, until I really got their whole gimmick, I'd just skip through -- when Max rhymed "Hangman" with "hang, man", it finally clicked and I realized it was supposed to be overly campy and bad).

While the longer run time is a bit of an issue, it's where the time is going that often bothers me. It's the same reason I don't watch Raw, SD, NXT, or Dynamite -- too much time is going to shit other than wrestling. Some of that time isn't even tangentially related to wrestling.

Elevation has a bit more variety, which I'm okay with. I like the interview segments, I'm fine with a few longer matches, highlighting wrestlers is nice, etc. The first episode I was a little iffy on just because it had a bunch of skits and then you had Tony Khan coming out and being a character (wtf), but thankfully most haven't been like that.

When I watch wrestling, I want to see people fighting people or talking about wanting to fight people. Anything outside that square starts to lose me. I was a bit more tolerant of the WWE's sketches back when they had talented performers doing them, but that's very rarely the case now and wasn't even always the case then.

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