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.
― Mordy, Saturday, 8 July 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Friday, July 7, 2017 1:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 8 July 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Saturday, 8 July 2017 06:01 (six years ago) link
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
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2017 06:08 (six years ago) link
Yeah, my bad for continuing that briefly.
GLOW.
― circa1916, Saturday, 8 July 2017 06:09 (six years ago) link
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
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2017 06:16 (six years ago) link
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
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2017 06:20 (six years ago) link
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."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 July 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
that's what happens when you have a lot of women in the same place
― maura, Saturday, 8 July 2017 12:00 (six years ago) link
Not on TV, apparently.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 July 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
most writers rooms are still heavily male.
― maura, Saturday, 8 July 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link
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.
― maura, Saturday, 8 July 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 July 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
the pregancy test scene was a trip, i had no idea they were so involved
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
They used to be! I feel like I read about the whole rigamarole in a YA book once.
― maura, Saturday, 8 July 2017 18:12 (six years ago) link
i liked this show, especially the generosity and affection the show has for all its characters, it seems to love them for their weaknesses
― ogmor, Saturday, 8 July 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
I like how the only functional relationship is cherry+keith
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 8 July 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
yeah otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
She-Wolf is so awesome. I find the execution of authenticity of her character inspiring, totally resonate
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 9 July 2017 03:27 (six years ago) link
yeah she's great
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 July 2017 04:13 (six years ago) link
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
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Sunday, 9 July 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
pizza dude had A+ hair imo
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 July 2017 04:25 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed this. When's the 2nd season commissioning announcement?
― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 07:40 (six years ago) link
announced 8/11.
― tha frash prance (alomar lines), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 05:02 (six years ago) link
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.
― nomar, Thursday, 19 October 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
omg
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
:D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
and it's just an amazing show, truly.
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
SERIOUS!? ok thats awesome
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:16 (six years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
woah
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
I like the idea that Alison Brie goes to the shops dressed as Zoya.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
I'd die if she'd denounced the capitalist system while reluctantly making her purchase.
― Entree 3000 (Leee), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Thursday, 16 November 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/alison-brie-exercises-netflix-glow-2017-6/#they-even-did-piggyback-rides-6
Damn girl!
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Leees? (Leee), Sunday, 10 December 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
betty gilpin 4 wonder woman imo
― we gather in social groups and disorient ourselves (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 25 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVOmTImfLA
― omar little, Friday, 20 April 2018 05:45 (six years ago) link
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 April 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
June 29 is so far away! (Sorry for the false alarm bump.)
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 4 June 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
oh man i think this is the only tv show i'm actually excited about.
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 4 June 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
yeah it’s v exciting
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 June 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
sometimes a watercooler show will be returning and even some of the ones i like start to feel like a chore, bc so many of them disappear up their own ass or they're grim "life is bad" type deals and this is just a good time.
― omar little, Monday, 4 June 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
my friend the other day was saying he's watched the whole thing twice but watched the final scene of season one half a dozen times.
― omar little, Monday, 4 June 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
I think that the art of delivering the warm fuzzies is kind of a lost art in the current tv landscape, which makes GLOW so refreshing and fun.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 4 June 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
yeah i agree, it's at the point where people start to expect the worst or eagerly predict the feel-bad stuff. like when Justified was coming to a close (and that's an example of a pretty genial good-hearted show even at its darkest) so many people were assuming Raylan would be killed or everyone would die. or on Mad Men that Megan would get killed by the Manson family. so this really is refreshing. and the cast is really exceptionally good.
― omar little, Monday, 4 June 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
think that the art of delivering the warm fuzzies is kind of a lost art
You know what else is a lost art is the art of proofreading dangit.
― Martin Landau Ballet (Leee), Monday, 4 June 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link