What an outstanding episode! Thank God that Amanda is finally gone. Now, hopefully, the show can now pick up some steam and get back to the superb quality it was before she came to this show.

I loved basically this entire episode. The only stuff that wasn't great was with Turtle and the girl in the auto shop. It had some good quality stuff, but is basically the reason this episode isn't perfect. EVERYTHING with Drama in this episode was phenomenal! He completely owned the screen and stole the show tonight. From not wanting to read the reviews, to the tug & rub, to the final moments of the episode, this episode has some of the best Johnny Drama moments in the history of this show. Everything with Vince and Eric trying to get back "Medellin" was also fantastic. I was thrilled when they decided to "roll the dice" to try and finally get their dream project made. Everything in the last 5 minutes just shows how amazing this show can be. Just when you think that we may have another prick like Alan to deal with, that being Joe Roberts, Joe realizes how much "Medellin" means to Vince. Joe ends up doing the right thing by letting Vince and Eric buy the rights to the project. Thankfully, Ari is now officially Vince's agent again. The closing moments of the show were classic with Drama finding out his show was a hit and kneeling down on the sand in the desert to say, "Thank you God... VICTORY!!!"

This episode was almost perfect.

To say this was the best Raw so far this year would be the understatement of the year. While the first half of Raw was pretty good, not great, the final hour was fantastic. In a match that lasted an hour, Shawn Michaels connected with Sweet Chin Music on John Cena and pinned him 1,2,3. This has to be the first time Cena has been pinned cleanly in about 2 years! I still can't believe Shawn actually defeated the WWE poster boy in a match that was the best match on Raw in over a year. This was how Wrestlemania 23 SHOULD have ended. While Shawn may now have no chance in hell of winning the title at Backlash, at least for one night he showed who is the better man. For me, this Raw was perfect.