The backstage promos were (and usually are) bad
Honestly, this week’s episode of NXT was riddled with terrible, scripted, lifeless promos from the likes of Deonna Purrazzo, Dana Brooke, Emma and others. I don’t know what it is, but it feels like they’re reading off of cue cards; and they might be, actually. I understand that this is developmental and it’s a working progress, but wow, some of these promos are just plain bad.
This isn’t the first week that I’ve criticized the backstage promo work from NXT talent. Last week, I blasted (and rightfully so) Apollo Crews for his consistent terrible backstage promos. The reasoning behind these bad promos is a combination of poor delivery and lackluster content from the writing staff.
These backstage segments don’t really mean much in the grand scheme of things, but it does hinder the show at times, and I feel like something needs to be done to break NXT of this poor habit.
