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When WWE arrived on Netflix on January 6, 2025, “sports entertainment” reached its widest reach yet. The deal that brought Monday Night Raw (and, outside the U.S., all WWE productions) to the streaming platform was a handshake between two PR-savvy pop culture giants, and Netflix’s new docuseries, WWE: Unreal, is where their artistry and commerce meet. It’s also where the latter often triumphs, burning the tensions underpinning creative endeavors to a crisp and sweeping them under the rug.  Considered a behind-the-scenes saga and the first glimpse into pro wrestling’s writers’ rooms, Unreal promises exclusive exposure. But it is, to quote the wrestling lingo that has become everyday vocabulary in our hyperconnected, always-on, and fervently fanatical age, a masterpiece. Unreal is pure marketing, a five-episode ploy to attract new viewers to Raw, SmackDown, and the Royal Rumble. Even that promise to put the writers in the spotlight goes virtually unfulfilled. Stars: CM Punk, Cody Rho...