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

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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

https://78.media.tumblr.com/dfc7592b9c45b0553f57c0bb78cb0e54/tumblr_p2gh2mPqJ51vnflrjo1_500.jpg

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

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/images/4/4f/Rosalie_Carbone.png/revision/latest?cb=20180618124738

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?”

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Finally watched this season, damn it was great. I love that NOBODY phones it in on this show, no matter how little they're given to do. And they tread such a careful line between being-the-thing and being-a-parody-of-the-thing, esp. when you see the "production values" of the show-within-a-show.

That Ruth/Debbie fight in the hospital . . . man, it actually felt *dangerous* to me, like few scenes that are just two characters yelling at each other can be. The whole time I was just internally screaming about how much worse it could get.

oh shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gsppRWlb8

aw hell yeah

wish season 3 was coming sooner I could really use it right now

geena davis in season 3!!!!

oh god this will make my LIFE

hi!

Three episodes in, still great. Even though I don't care about Sam/Ruth, and I still don't know much about half the characters beyond "she got fired once and then came back".

Three episodes in myself, they're killing it.

went to start the new series, turned out we never finished the last two eps of S2

they were fun!

Wait is S3 out?

You're not too far behind. Just premiered Friday.

Just finished S3. They must feel really confident about getting a S4, because that would be an awful way to end a series.

it's S3 of a Netflix series, there's no possible way they were confident about it

There's a lot more (confidence in the) nudity, plus the 'we don't actually need to di any in-ring scenes' thing may count as confidence?

Yeah, the actual wrestling content this year was close to ZERO.

I found myself hoping for more in-ring stuff, and then they did the Christmas episode and that wasn't what I wanted at all. I guess the characters didn't have in-ring storylines this season, but I wish they would play up the weird kayfabe/irl relationship dualities that really occur in wrestling. That said, it's still a great show and I love it.

I heard that viewers watching a series through to completion is what matters most in getting a show renewed on Netflix, and since you can watch a whole season of GLOW in five hours, it probably scores quite well on that front.

It took me this long to work out that Rhonda is played by Kate Nash.

there's something v agreeable in the balance of this show, how no one's completely got their act together, nearly everyone's a bit of an arsehole occasionally but not too much of an arsehole, and the underlying strength of the group dynamic keeps kicking in. cld do with more wrestling but the switching episode was really fun, esp debbie as zoya. debbie was so much fun all round in this series, the character has blossomed and she stole the show

I lost interest in this halfway into S2

3 episodes in, am I imagining it or is there far more nudity this season? Feels a lot more gratuitous if not.

Seems like it, but I've never rewatched S1-S2 after inital viewings.

only got through ep 2 and am bummed they are apparently going the full-on Sam + Diane/will they-won't they? route :(

Diane + Coach more like :/

Stick with it - I don’t think it’s so clear cut as that. Still, I’m somehow really invested in their story. The characters’ flawedness plus their chemistry carries it and I find them quite sympathetic.

agree they're both compelling characters, but one of the things I liked best about this show was having their relationship at the center as one of platonic mutual respect/antagonism

this def picks up whenever it focuses on the intersection of the wrestling act w their real life. Awesome Kong's "All That Jazz" morning routine reference was nice, that was a good episode.

the ethnic studies/group bonding ep in the desert was... oy vey

this season is bumming me out