And that's where my next line of thinking was going. If it's a tv drama then do we compare it to other tv dramas with a straight face? And I think it's very hard to do so with a straight face. And if you can't hen that begs the question, why waste your time on such nonsense?
And I say that as someone who doesn't even really have a grudge against piffle drama and nonsense on television.
I don't see why you'd have to compare it. It seems like your hang up is reaching for a definition. A proper one for what wrestling is would require more hyphens than a new genre pitchfork is inventing. My grand uncle describes it as his soap opera. Same canned acting, but the stunt-work is a million times better and the actors are doing their own.
I mean, that's the thing. If you WERE to just look at it as a TV drama, as many points as you'd take away for 99% of the writing and plots, you'd have to give twice as many back for largely seamless, often cutting edge, non-special effects aided, real-time action sequences that the show promotes itself for anyway.