I liked Bo back in the Bo-lieve days, but have a hard time seeing this thing succeed with Bray gone, is Howdy going to be another unstoppable monster like the fiend?
Nobody wants to say it but it was going to be bad with Bray, too.
People didn't even like to say it when he was alive, because he was incredibly likable and everybody respected that he was always trying something new and different... But everything Bray did had a shelf life and outside the initial backwoods cult-leader gimmick, the shelf life was extremely short.
This is shaping up to be a parody tribute of a bad act performed by a generational talent... Except Bray is dead and the bad act is now being performed by average talents.
With no disrespect meant to anybody involved, I fully expect that the act is bad from the start, the talents who have to feud with them look like goofs, it gets dragged out way too long by the company out of respect for Bray and his peers, and fans don't want to shit on it out of respect for Bray and his peers, resulting in the worst possible fan reaction, which is indifference.