He’s Boring


I wanted to like the guy. I really did. I’m a gym rat. I can relate myself to him. He is affable—but he’s neither charming nor charismatic, unless you consider a Sport Utility Vehicle to be charismatic. As Gertrude Stein said of New Jersey, “There is no there there.” The guy is BORING. It’s like constantly being served Cheer-O cold cereal. I tried binging Ballers and bailed literally halfway through an episode, when I thought, “Why am I watching this?”

Understand: this is much less of a swipe at Johnson than it is a castigation of our culture. Why do we venerate hollow people? It’s probably a question that answers itself.

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As Gertrude Stein said of New Jersey


That was Oakland.

Re: your actual point, he got his start as a "babyface" in the WWF & never caught on. He only became popular after taking on the "heel" role. So I wouldn't blame his current, stale "musclebound Tom Hanks" persona on audiences. We wanted him to have an edge.

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