If you've spent any time exploring the WWE Network, you've come across a long list of documentaries about a variety of wrestlers, matches, pay per view events, and even entire wrestling companies. However, there's one thing that's been sorely lacking on the company's streaming platform: an in-depth look at its longest-tenured wrestler, the Undertaker. With the premiere of Undertaker: The Last Ride, that changes.

The new five-part documentary series follows the legendary Undertaker between 2017 and 2020 as the man behind the character, Mark Calaway, struggles with the realization that the end of his career is nigh. WWE supplied GameSpot with the first episode of the series for review. So does Undertaker: The Last Ride meet the hype WWE has created around it?

In short, it exceeds that hype. The Last Ride raises the bar for WWE's in-house productions and offers the kind of unrestricted access to its subject that the company has dabbled in with its WWE 24 and WWE 365 projects. There's no sugarcoating the last few years of Calaway's career, though--and there's no promise of a happy ending. The first episode finds the wrestler being blunt and honest about his life now that he is toward the end of his career.