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

Time magazine mostly rated this well but noted the secondary characters storylines were mostly too truncated and without depth. haven't watched it yet to determine that but sure this is a good season, quality show

ok i finished s2 and omg that was so great

finale was hilarious - staging was hilar

episode 8 is chefkiss.jpg, i kinda want an entire season done that way

^ this

the argument btw debbie & ruth in the hospital was so raw & great, i love how they both dig up all
the messy complicated emotions & express them so well

betty gilpin crushed it this season. her edgy manic exhaustion was awesome

overall just feel so uplifted & happy, the show just lights me up from within it sounds corny but it’s true!!! i love it. Gives me genuine delight to watch, makes me feel so many emotions with quality wrestling & laughs.

This fuckin show <3

excellent cameos in the beginning of ep10

Nice interview with Kia Stevens, who plays Tamme: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/7/3/17527216/kia-stevens-glow-season-two

So about her spotlight episode: it definitely addresses the racial stereotypes that's a part of wrestling (which IIRC the first season doesn't dig into), but doesn't really settle the issue for better or for worse (also a reflection of how wrestling works IRL).

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What did seem anachronistic was how the crowd started turning on LB in favor of WQ, which kinda idealizes the reaction a rasslin audience might have to seeing someone being demeaned so badly. (At least AFAICR -- I don't remember any examples where a gimmick steps over a line so egregiously that the crowd reacts against it.)
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Very few shows confer such joy, such glee - even when they're dark or unpleasant.

I'm a little nervous about what next season will bring, but this was wonderful.

It's a show that loves its characters; I'm not sure how to say what I'm trying to say.

If I had to single out any single character's storyline this season, it might be everything involving Justine; if I had to pick a favorite episode, it's probably a toss up between episode 4 or episode 8.

When I think through these seasons, though, and try to settle on a favorite MOMENT from the whole thing it comes down to: Bash just before he's going to be a ringside announcer for the first time (from S1E10). He's been waiting his whole damn life to do this and it's happening, finally.

Bash’s legit delight during every minute of the battle royale was one of my favorite things. The things they do to show you how much he loves wrestling really pay off.

And Raymond otm: while i find the stories are a little bit underwritten at times, the show’s love for the characters is unmistakeable and I dunno if I would trade that. It feels more, idk, nourishing? I hate that word but that’s what popped into my head.

This show is like the decent stuff in OITNB (multi ethnic ensemble female cast) x 10 and w out any of that show’s egregious baggage, just really enjoyable and occasionally genuinely moving. Kia tearing up after those “get a job” chants was too real.

Also tons of lolz

“Hello cameraman”
“Hello star-who’s-name-i-havent-bothered-to-learn”

The more I think about this the more I like it. There’s not really any false notes or wrong beats in the pacing or anything.

otm

my other favorite joke so far is wolf-woman describing Cheers as "a show about an invisible woman named Vera"

lol yeah I actually laughed out loud at that one when it registered.

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also this because it's the best

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sorry this is the last one i promise

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So much love for this series. An underlying theme that culminated in the final show was how much better they got a selling the moves in the ring, culminating in Liberty Belle vs the Lumberjackson. I’m not sure if that was intentional or just as a result of the actors getting better at it going through the series but it seem right nonetheless.

lol I should rewatch the whole thing just to spot the reactions of people in the background

finished this over the weekend, couple things:

- was kinda bummed that there is a will they/won't they dynamic developing between Ruth and Sam.
- Bash's situation not being spelled out or given much exposition *because he has no one to talk to* makes his arc even more of a bummer

also (and this is minor, I will not mind if it is handwaved away) how does going to Vegas solve the IP ownership problem? Like, wouldn't the TV station will still be entitled to a cut (and, I would assume, control) over any production using those characters, even if it's not on TV...?

yeah bash’s story is so quietly devastating - he’s turned out to be a character of unexpected depth and pathos

not super-keen on the will-they-won’t-they ruth/sam angle either by one thing it does highlight is that marc maron has turned into a reasonable actor after the painfully amateurish performances of he first season of maron

I think they already handwaved it away, the tv network guy said "but you can do a live show!" (for some reason).

Don't see why they would need a tv director though.

I think the will they/won't they between Sam and Ruth exists solely in Sam's head.

Bash's situation not being spelled out or given much exposition *because he has no one to talk to*

Yeah, Glowbot was severely sidelined this season.

Almost done with season 2. I am totally in the minority here but I am only just starting to warm up to Betty Gilpin. I thought she was badly miscast at first. Maybe because of her sting in Masters of Sex. I dunno.

whaaaat

oh and also also

I did *not* recognize Annabella Sciorra ... until she opened her mouth. Love her in p much anything so her showing up was a great surprise.

I feel like they went out of their way to make her pretty unrecognizable too - big hair, bulky clothing etc.

I didn't realize Rosalie was Annabella Sciorra until just now. Definitely unrecognizable.

And what an unbelievably perfect episode/ending that was ("The Good Twin").

WHAT

holy shit, it is!

err, annabella sciorra I mean

they actually do kinda look like a plausible family

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she also turns up in Luke Cage, apparently? Looking more like you might expect her to

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xpost Yeah, I am only now getting into Debbie's 80s soap opera/wooden vibe. The 80s were a weird time.

Glowbot was severely sidelined this season.

tbh I was dying @ Glowbot's "love sign" eyes in the background of the wedding ceremony

Avoided the thread til now, and hey it got weird. Ok anyway, just finished S2. Goddamned great show. All the more for being a program where empathy is extended to every single character in the cast, and there are zero villains (unless we count Glen and the TV exec), which is a refreshing change of pace.

And it would seem that the wrestling show within a show in which a multicultural, multiethnic cast was put together for cynical and exploitative reasons has allowed for this show to have such a cast in a way that’s completely positive and warm and open and beautiful.

Betty Gilpin remains one of the best at reaction shots that I’ve ever seen, one of my biggest laughs this season was during the radio show scene, with her extremely subtle reaction to when Brittanica said, “we’d marry all our fans if we could!” And that argument scene in the hospital, yeah that shit was raw. That was incredible.

Another big lol was the Griffith Park Observatory as the fortress where Liberty Belle’s daughter was being held captive.

finished season 2 last night. shoulda seen it coming but I still got a little choked up when Ruth finds out that she gets to fly in and take the bouquet. Allison Brie is so great and it's just a terrific character, a borderline-annoying overachiever who is lovable nonetheless. I also really enjoyed the unexpected way they handled her incipient love triangle with Russell and Sam. maybe her decision did seem to hang a little too squarely on her brief conversation with Justine's mom about trying to get past dating guys who ran hot and cold, but it was still not how I anticipated things were going to play out. I will say if I had one gripe it's that it seemed a little inauthentic how abruptly Sam went from being basically a huge dick to suddenly an all-around good dude.

"What's a mother without a child? Just...a person!"

We finally caught up with season 2, and while the first few episodes were kind of inconsequential, the characters were so well drawn that it's a joy to see things play out. Bash (the character and the actor) may be our favorite. Just a complicated dude, and it's harder to act dumb or for that matter act like a bad actor than it seems.

yeah, i really love bash - his happy-do-lucky dumbass rich-kid persona (which seems like it's half actually really him, half a very flimsy defence mechanism) really takes a beating this season and chris lowell does a great job of selling it

that's a lot of 'really's :(

I never knew Bash was/could be short for Sebastian. I had never heard it before but then watched Anne with an E after and they also have a character named Bash.

my favorite Bash moment was the whispered "we can afford TWO more injuries"

We have a neighbor kid named Sebastian who goes by Bash.

loved the show within a show episode. was thinking about starting a career in kidnapping, but now, thanks to GLOW, I know kidnapping is bad!

“When my son Randy was born, he looked just like me. It was surreal. Like, late at night, I would look down at this tiny bald version of myself screaming with my nipple in his mouth. And then sometimes I would wipe his balls and be like, “am I wiping my balls,” you know?”