Surprising Revelation About Popular AEW Vignettes
AEW uses vignettes to make storylines more interesting
Tony Khan has leaned into this approach with the Max Caster and Anthony Bowens storyline.
After The Acclaimed split, Khan put Caster and Bowens into a series of pre‑taped “team‑building” vignettes where he ordered them to bond, do activities together, and find nice things to say about each other.
These segments aired on AEW TV, show them awkwardly trying to reconnect through various exercises, and the fans are loving it.
The Acclaimed Use Improv For Their AEW Vignettes
In a recent interview with The Phoenix New Times, Anthony Bowens was asked if these vignette videos are improv.
The AEW star replied that they are completely real and unscripted. Tony Khan sends a camera crew, and they just go out and interact as themselves, without written lines.
Question: The recent vignettes of you and your former tag-team partner Max Caster being forced to bond by AEW owner Tony Khan have been hilarious. Was it all improv?
Bowens: So those videos are legit. Tony sends a camera and we try and do our team building. So everything you see is just us interacting as we would. And there’s nothing written, there’s no scripts. We’re just going out and experiencing life, trying to put the pieces back together; at least, Tony’s trying to get us doing that. So I think that’s probably why it comes off as so genuine and authentic — because it is.
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