Our Style Is Wild And You Know You Can't Tame Us: GLOW on Netflix

I enjoyed this show, although a few of the wrestling-related details bothered me. I don't think a bunch of complete novices, most with no prior interest in wrestling, could be trained to a level of even near-competence in a short period by another actress with no wrestling experience, even with the help of another neophyte from a family of wrestlers. That was the one element that I thought was weirdly disrespectful of wrestling. It's so much harder than that.

The one other aspect that rang a little false was Steel Horse being so candid with Debbie about the inner workings of wrestling, using insider terms and so on. I'm under the impression that wrestlers were more tight-lipped about that in the mid-80s. But I actually don't know for sure. And it's possible that they would have made exceptions for women they wanted to sleep with.

I also wonder if a guy working that small of a show would really have had his own dressing room, even if he was a regional star.

Maron recently did an episode of WTF interviewing Chavo Guerrero Jr (he was the trainer for the show) and Kia Stevens who plays Tammee/Welfare Queen

if you are a fan of GLOW it's an awesome listen - Chavo talks a lot about his work with the show and teaching the actors the literal ropes. Plus he was a great wrestler in his own right, grew up in a wrestling family, his father Chavo Sr was a captial L legend and his cousin Eddie was the BUSINESS

and Kia's story is uh-MAZING - she was a social worker and applied for Tough Enough as a joke! and ended up being a superstar in Japan...and she talks about TNA and WWE and the tragedy in her life as well. but god, she is so cool and bubbly and just a really great, chatty interview.

It made me want to go watch the show all over again <3

oh and Kia was a fan Hollywood and Vine from the original GLOW as a kid <3

OH and Chavo Guerro's uncle Mando trained the original GLOW wrestlers. full circle!!

I'm done now I swear :)

It felt a bit weird how they had a quickly abandoned subplot where there was a flirtation with a storyline miscarriage that was crass and upsetting for a character that had really had one, and Kia Stevens was there in the ring having actually left WWE in real life after losing a baby

chavo is another lucha underground guy. lu recently did a deal w/ netflix which is why [almost?] all their seasons are available now to stream. i wonder if they hooked the GLOW producers up w/ them.

also this is miles better than Stranger Things, which is an empty pastiche about nothing with cardboard characters, whereas this is a show that touches on all kinds of themes and dynamics in unusual and unexplored ways.

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Yes yeah shakes we heard your terrible and obviously wrong hot takes on this show for far too long on the appropriate thread no need to relitigate your clueless ramblings here

Ok I just opened this thread at the right time to see the last post and I'm sure I missed a lot but Shakey way OTM, Stranger Things is weak as fuck and I support it being trumpeted until the end of time.

can we please officially declare a moratorium on Stranger Things itt now? this is like third time we've been around this merrygoround here

the only thing the two have in common is the 80's. you may as well reference how GLOW holds up against The Goldbergs

Yeah, my bad for continuing that briefly.

GLOW.

i rewatched the GLOW doc

i think I appreciate the netflix show, esp the writers & jenji, for taking the strengths of the doco (the women's camaraderie & backgrounds & characters) & pushing the aspirational & empowering aspect, instead of leaning into the gross sad shit like the legit creepy abusive director etc

like the netflix show celebrates GLOW in a way that it wasn't properly celebrated then, and explores things that 80's culture didnt reallt give much of a shit about, like female friendships & agency etc

like it's a slippery slope to undermine what they did bc of exploitation, drugs, abuse, general 80's gross permissivenes

that still all stands irl

but the show keeps you locked in on YES BUT THESE FKN WOMEN THO

and I really love that

because it feels like a good way to get ppl to look at the real women with more/new respect imo

Was it just me, or was this show relatively unusually keyed in to real women's bodies, too? Not just different shapes, sizes and colors, but mundane stuff like menstruation and old school science kit pregnancy tests? It's rare that tampons make an appearance in anything, save the opening of "Carrie."

that's what happens when you have a lot of women in the same place

Not on TV, apparently.

most writers rooms are still heavily male.

and not to judge but a lot of tv writers seem like the types who would be grossed out at even those maxi pad ads that use blue liquid as a period blood stand in.

No doubt! Precisely why I mentioned it at all. It's very rare that tampons make it into tampon ads, let alone TV shows or movies. The Kotex red dot campaign was radical.

the pregancy test scene was a trip, i had no idea they were so involved

They used to be! I feel like I read about the whole rigamarole in a YA book once.

i liked this show, especially the generosity and affection the show has for all its characters, it seems to love them for their weaknesses

I like how the only functional relationship is cherry+keith

yeah otm

She-Wolf is so awesome. I find the execution of authenticity of her character inspiring, totally resonate

yeah she's great

I laughed hard at Head Over Heels by TFF being synced with pizza delivery. It's a song that I find hard to divorce from Donnie Darko, but attaching it to slices transcends that

pizza dude had A+ hair imo

I enjoyed this. When's the 2nd season commissioning announcement?

announced 8/11.

just wrapped this up last night. the ultimate positive vibes show, with the right amount of bummer notes and none that were there for the sake of being a bummer. Alison Brie is pretty amazing but equally good is Betty Gilpin, if only for her astonishing reaction shots and facial expressions throughout. they should award them both Emmys right now.

and it felt like the right show to watch the past couple of weeks.

omg

:D

no wait

15 min ago i'm in line at a store and alison brie in full Zoya makeup is behind me. no story beyond that but it took me a minute to register and i'm still in a daze.

and it's just an amazing show, truly.

SERIOUS!? ok thats awesome

I was wondering why this awesome looking woman was dressed up for an '80s party and then I heard her say something to the clerk and i recognized her voice and I think my eyes turned into literal saucers.

omg

woah

I like the idea that Alison Brie goes to the shops dressed as Zoya.

I'd die if she'd denounced the capitalist system while reluctantly making her purchase.

omg

that would be a+

my wife loves the show so much, she has never been more jealous of a celeb sighting. Like I'm jealous of her mid-''90s lunch with Royal Trux.

http://www.businessinsider.com/alison-brie-exercises-netflix-glow-2017-6/#they-even-did-piggyback-rides-6

Damn girl!

betty gilpin 4 wonder woman imo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVOmTImfLA

:D

June 29 is so far away! (Sorry for the false alarm bump.)

oh man i think this is the only tv show i'm actually excited about.