Ahead of the premiere of Season Two, a SmackDown star has responded to those critical of Netflix’s WWE Unreal series.
WWE Unreal has drawn its fair share of critics within the wrestling industry, with names such as WWE Hall of Famer Jake Roberts branding the show “foolish” due to how much it peels back the curtain to WWE’s inner workings behind the scenes.
Speaking with Denise Salcedo ahead of the launch of Season Two of WWE Unreal on January 20, Chelsea Green offered a counter argument to those who are critical of the show, stating that ideas like Unreal will “progress the industry forward” and gain wrestling more acceptance from the sports and Hollywood crowd.
Green explained:
“I just feel like, wrestling is basically the longest soap opera known to mankind. Why would you not want to peel back the curtain and watch how the longest episodic television show is made? I don’t understand.
“Total Divas was one of the best shows on E! So, the proof is in the pudding, we do like when the curtain is pulled back, we do like an inside look.
“I think it’s just this funny balance of people wanting to protect the business, but we’ve got to progress forward and unscripted reality TV is progressing forward, pulling the curtain back is pressing forward. Showing, especially the entertainment industry that we belong, because I think we’ve been the black sheep.
“Sports doesn’t want to claim us, you see that we’re not necessarily at the forefront of the Espys or things like that right? We’re not really in Sports Illustrated all the time, and then Hollywood is like, ‘Yeah, you’re not a TV show, you’re not real actors, we’re not going to have you (be) a part of the SAG Union and things like that.
“I personally think that moments like Unreal are what are going to push this industry forward and branch out into sports and into Hollywood in ways that we didn’t know it could.
“And also we’re going to get new fans, its on Netflix, hello, new fans are going to watch this and they’re going to tune in to Raw and SmackDown, PLEs and NXTs, and there’s nothing bad about that.”
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