Wrestling fans we are now finally living in a world were the world and the sport of professional wrestling is being treated as seriously as we professional wrestling take it and well there's a new TV drama series out that's about professional wrestling and as such you just knew. That I have to at the very least check out the first episode and so here are my SPOILER FILLED first impressions of the professional wrestling drama that is sure to please alot of die hard professional wrestling fans with the tv series in question being called simply just "Heels" enjoy.
The plot of this very episode is is small town wrestling promoter Jack Spade has to deal with his egotistical younger brother and star of Jack's small town wrestling promotion Ace Spade but things are made much worse when Jack's younger brother is offered the chance to possibly head to the big time in the world of professional wrestling. Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the plot of this episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought thought that the plot of this first episode was OK since it des a very good job of setting up alot of if not all of this shows main cast of characters but at the same time I also thought / felt that the plot of this episode was also fairly weak at best with the main conflict ofthe episode not being introduced until fairly late into the episodes running time.
Starring in this episode is Stephen Amell as Jack Spade , Alexander Ludwig as Ace Spade and Alison Luff as Staci Spade. Also starring in this episode is Mary McCormack as Willie Day , Kelli Berglund as Crystal Tyler , Allen Maldonado as Rooster Robbins , James Harrison as Apocalypse , Chris Bauer as Wild Bill Hancock , Trey Tucker as Bobby Pin , Alice Barrett as Carol Spade , Roxton Garcia as Thomas Spade and Duke Davis Roberts as Big Jim Kitchen.
Now then in terms of what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular episode in all honesty I in all honesty thought / felt that the acting that's featured / presented to us in this very / particular was really shockingly really good. I know that I sound surprised that this show had good acting that's only because that nine times out of ten whenever a TV show is made about professional wrestling the acting isn't that good and so it's good to see that this show or at the very least this very / particular episode has some good acting within it.
Now then as with both the professional wrestling film Fighting With My Family and the TV series comedy biopic Young Rock this TV series / TV show seems to have alot of love and respect for the world of professional wrestling and this is is something that as a professional wrestling fan makes me very happy. Since it would have been very freaking easy to have this show just a few references to professional wrestling and nothing more then that but nope this episode at least takes the time to describing what certain wrestling terminology means and this episode actually takes the time to fully explore what happens when the wrestling show has ended and when the next wrestling show is about to begin and that right there shows that the makers of this show have a tremendous amount of respect for the world of professional wrestling and for professional wrestling a s whole in my opinion anyways / at least.
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Now then I was expecting there to be at the very least like two or but there are so many references to the world of professional wrestling in this one episode alone. Like for example during a brief thirty second video package we see what I think is TNA Impact Wrestling along with Abyss and heck even the style in which that video package in question is done is done very much in the style of the XWF hosting / host segments.
While I personally did enjoy alot of the references to the wider professional wrestling there's one certain company which gets alot of love in this episode and it's the WWE / WWF. Now then even tho they don't outright mention the WWE / WWF at all when they mention a company up north is looking to sign Ace and thus send Ace down to developmental it's pretty freaking clear which professional company that there are talking about and they straight up mention both Vince McMahon and WCW by name I personally don't really see alot of non wrestling fans understanding are even getting alot of the much more wider refences to the much more wider world of professional wrestling in my opinion anyways / at least.
I honestly wasn't expecting the ending of this episode to pretty much be the now very infamous Montreal screwjob since everything that lead up until that point didn't point to that ending. Heck since Jack was busy trying to think of an ending to his match with his brother Ace I came up with a pretty solid ending which is Ace's valet Crystal costs Ace the match and thus she can now turn heel and she can now possibly be allowed to compete in the ring full time it's a literal win win situation and surprised that no one else even suggested that ending as being a possibility.
Now then what I personally found to be rather interest is the role reversal between Jack and Ace's fictionalized versions of themselves and the real life version of both Jack and Ace. Since in the world of professional wrestling Jack is the heel and Ace is the face (heel=bad guy and face=good guy for those of you who aren't professional wrestling fans.) and yet in real life outside of the world of professional wrestling Ace is kind of a bad guy and Jack is kind of a good guy. This was something that I personally found to be rather interesting because it was something that I honestly didn't expect to be a thing that's in this / apart of this very / particular show but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways / at least.
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Now then incase your wondering why this post is out early (i'm writing this post very early on the Sunday evening) well it's simply because Starz released this episode online a day early and once things get released online early it's only a matter of time before it ends up on some ahem "other methods" type of viewing websites if you catch my drift and well. It's using those exact same "other methods" types of websites I personally was able to view this very / particular episode but that doesn't mean that I condone using the methods that I used to view episode since i'm a very strong believer of if you can watch it legally then you should most defiantly watch this episode or any film or TV show / episode of any TV show legally but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.
Now then this very / particular episode has / had a grand total running time of exactly one hour and two minuets and thirty eight seconds and while this episode had more then enough there story wise / plot wise to cover that running time. I will also very freely freaking admit that this episode does get bogged down quite a bit in the shows second act this is simply because at that point in the episode there's still no hint of what the plot of the episode is and so all your left doing is watching these newly introduced characters just go about there day and just living their very mundane lives which isn't entertaining in the slightest bit in my opinion anyways / at least.
Now then since this show is a dram show after all that means that I have to actually talk about the actual drama that's featured / presented to us in his very very / actual / particular episode and well in my honest opinion I in all honesty think / feel that the drama that's featured / presented to us in this very / actual / particular episode was really good. Yes it's the best drama since the main drama of this episode only gets introduced very freaking late into this episode but what little drama we do get in this episode was handled very freaking well in my opinion anyways / at least.
Overall this was in all honesty a really freaking good debut episode and I in all honesty cannot wait to see what comes next from this show heck just the ending of this first episode got me excited to go and see episode two because that's how good of a first episode that this first episode well and truly was in my opinion anyways. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this episode in this post and since this only my first impressions I as will not be giving you a rating for this show or for this episode as one good doesn't mean that the rest of the show will be any good.
Now then as for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the image that I personally used in this very review from the Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page , the official Young Rock fandom wiki page , the official Heels fandom wiki page and the official Heels fandom wiki page. With my personally favourite website to use to get images from this episode being Google Images this is simply because the official Heels fandom wiki page actually has alot of images from this episode and plus all of the of the images that are currently up and featured and on the official Heels fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly high definition.
