History Series / GLOW2017

** Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:GLOW getting screwed over by the network just because Ruth refused to have sex with with its boss, not only that but the network has the rights to the GLOW characters, thus making a jump to another network legally impossible in its current form, Justine is taken away from Sam by her mother and Debbie realizes the good man she loss with Mark and how vindictive she is. However, they are invited to do live-shows in Las Vegas in the Fan Tan Hotel & Casino with good pay with both Ruth and Debbie taking baby steps towards mending their relationship.]]
** Season 3 ends with [[spoiler:the Rhapsody Show closing down after Bash is convinced by Debbie to take out his investment in the Fan Tan to buy a struggling Network after their contract with the casino expires with Bash now struggling with his repressed homosexual impulses and desire to stay married with Rhonda, who's now doubting their marriage. After the live-show ends and everybody starts returning to their homes or going on a vacation, Debbie, in a act of kindness and respect, offers Ruth the chance to direct a planned reboot of GLOW with new characters but Ruth angrily refuses because of her desire to be a respected actor and not wanting to be in debt to her, possibly straining their relationship again, while Carmen decides to leave GLOW to go on a wrestling tour with her older brother Kurt. However, the other girls now have a better understanding and respect for each other with Sheila abandoning her She-Wolf persona and taking an active interest in acting and theatre, Cherry rekindling her relationship with her husband Keith and Sam (who's having health problems) not only having a better relationship with Justine but actually helping her getting her first screenplay turn into a movie.]]

** Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:GLOW getting screwed over by the network just because Ruth refused to have sex with with its boss, not only that but the network has the rights to the GLOW characters, thus making a jump to another network legally impossible in its current form, Justine is taken away from Sam by her mother and Debbie realizes the good man she loss with Mark and how vindictive she is. However, they are invited to do live-shows in Las Vegas in the Fan Tan Hotel & Casino with good pay and both Ruth and Debbie taking baby steps towards mending their relationship.]]
** Season 3 ends with [[spoiler:the Rhapsody Show closing down after Bash is convinced by Debbie to take out his investment in the Fan Tan to buy a struggling Network after their contract with the casino expires with Bash now struggling with his homosexual impulses and desire to stay married with Rhonda, who's now doubting their marriage. After the live-show ends and everybody starts returning to their homes or going on a vacation, Debbie, in a act of kindness and respect, offers Ruth the chance to direct a planned reboot of GLOW with new characters but Ruth angrily refuses because of her desire to be a repected actor and not wanting being in debt with her, possibly straining their relationship again, while Carmen decides to leave GLOW to go on a wrestling tour with her older brother Kurt. However, the other girls now have a better understanding and respect for each other with Sheila abandoning her She-Wolf persona and taking an active interest in acting and theatre, Cherry rekindling her relationship with her husband Keith and Sam not only having a better relationship with Justine but actually helping her getting her first screenplay turn into a movie.]]

** Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:GLOW getting screwed over by the network just because Ruth refused to have sex with with its boss, not only that but the network has the rights to the GLOW characters, thus making a jump to another network legally impossible, Justine is taken away from Sam by her mother and Debbie realizes the good man she loss with Mark and how vindictive she is. However, they are invited to do live-shows in Las Vegas in the Fan Tan Hotel & Casino with good pay and both Ruth and Debbie taking baby steps towards mending their relationship.]]
** Season 3 ends with [[spoiler:the Fan Tan Hotel & Casino closing down after Bash is convinced by Debbie to take out his investment in the Fan Tan to buy a struggling Network after their contract with the casino expires with Bash now struggling with his homosexual impulses and desire to stay married with Rhonda, who's now doubting their marriage. After the live-show ends with everybody returning to their homes, Debbie, in a act of kindness and respect, offers Ruth the chance to direct a planned reboot of GLOW with new characters but Ruth angrily refuses as her desire is in acting, possibly straining their relationship again, while Carmen decides to leave GLOW to go on a wrestling tour with her older brother Kurt. However, the other girls now have a better understanding and respect for each other with Sheila abandoning her She-Wolf persona and taking an interest in acting, Cherry rekindling her relationship with her husband and Sam not only having a better relationship with Justine but actually helping her getting her first screenplay turn into a movie.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Bash saves his voice by whispering during the day, but whispering is actually harder on your voice than regular speech. This up, however, simply be the result of Bash's ignorance.

Alongside other colorful newcomers, Ruth has to deal with Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin), a former soap actress who left show business to have a baby, only to be sucked back into work when her picture-perfect life is not what it seems.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Bash saves his voice by whispering during the day, but whispering is actually harder on your voice than regular speech. This might, however, simply be the result of Bash's ignorance.

* SpoiledSweet: Bash was raised in an extremely wealthy family, but is almost a ManChild in the way he's chipper, naive and friendly. The trope is zig-zagged a bit in season 3, when Bash becomes more ruthless in his business dealings and harsher on people who run afoul of his ArmoredClosetGay.

* TitleDrop: Most if not all of the episode titles are dropped within the episodes themselves, such as Nerds being the 1985 "Candy of the Year" and Sam quipping about Ruth's allergies being triggered by "Dessert Pollen."

* RealSongThemeTune: The show's theme tune is "The Warrior" by Scandal featuring Patty Smyth, though it is only used in the first episode of each season.

The first season premiered on June 23, 2017; the trailer can be found [[https://youtu.be/AZqDO6cTYVY here]]. After a successful second season, it was renewed for a third season on August 20, 2018.

* RobotBuddy: Bash has a robot serving drinks and drugs at a party. The robot eventually becomes a prop for Rhonda's story.

Season 1 spoilers are unmarked. You've been warned.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The plot of the movie Sam has spent a decade trying to get made [[spoiler:foreshadows the fact that Justine is his daughter, as it is about a guy who travels in time and has his mother try to have sex with him, which is what happens between Sam and Justine just gender flipped and without the time travel.]]

* ObviousStuntDouble: Largely subverted; most of the women on the show are doing their own wrestling (assisted by editing), but one very clear example is Ruth's moonsault in "A Very GLOW Christmas".

* PimpedOutDress: The show has it's moments but the Season 3 premiere ends with an elevator full of women in 80s eveningwear, including Melrose's Cleopatra styled outfit in midnight blue.

** When Bash decides that he needs to leave Vegas and pulls his money out of "The Rhapsody" show, more than fifty people lose their jobs right before Christmas.

** When performing as Zoya's good twin in America, Ruth says "What a country!" several times. This was the catchphrase of Russian-American comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who was popular in TheEighties.

* StrawPolitical: Bash's mother is a hyper-conservative admirer of Nancy Reagan who hates liberals. She's unwilling to support his projects when he tries to sell them as a sob story about the dispossessed, but finally gets it and decides to support him financially when she sees Ruth give an honest but purely selfish reason for her role in GLOW.

** Sam has a history in the business of being an arrogant and selfish jerk with a litany of flops and bad projects. Thus, when he tries to sell a script of Justine's, he finds it hard to be taken seriously.
*** One executive was a former assistant of Sam's who points out all the horrible crap Sam put him through on sets and now has the power to toss him out of the office.

* InsultBackfire: Realizing an arrogant producer isn't going to give them a chance, Ruth snaps how "your last movie sucked!" The guy smugly points out his last movie was the Oscar-winning hit ''Film/OutOfAfrica''.

** Bash's mother. She treats the entire enterprise as little better than a scam, [[spoiler: but once she meets the girls and hears them speak, she decides to help them with a venue for the show.]]

** Welfare Queen is supposed to be a money-grubbing LowerClassLout who showcases the worst stereotypes surrounding plus-sized African American women but Tamme is a humble and generous woman who acts as a TeamMom to the younger girls, a mentor and confidant to Debbie (a younger mother of a son), and has worked hard for most of her adulthood to help raise a son on a Stanford scholarship.
** Fortune Cookie and Beirut the Mad Bomber are the heels who play against fears surrounding communism and radical Islamic terrorism and the ignorance against Asian culture and Middle Eastern culture. Jenny and Arthie are nice girls who are well assimilated into American culture with ImmigrantParents.

** Carmen as [[LowerClassClout Welfare Queen]]

** Sheila as [[spoiler: [[CanonForeigner Liza Minnelli]] ]]

** Melanie as [[Yellowface Fortune]] [[YellowPeril Cookie]]
** Stacey as [[Brownface Beirut]] [[MiddleEasternTerrorists the Mad Bomber]]

** Yolanda as [[HollywoodVoodooBlack Magic]] [[EthnicMagician (or rather, Bruja) Magic]]

** Ruth as Liberty Belle
** Debbie as Zoya the Destroya
** Cherry as Melrose
** Carmen as Welfare Queen
** Rhonda as Macchu Picchu

** Tammé as Ethel Rosenblatt
** Melanie as Fortune Cookie
** Stacey as Beirut the Mad Bomber
** Dawn as Junkchain
** Arthie as Edna Rosenblatt
** Reggie as [[spoiler: [[CanonForeigner a nun]] ]]
** Jenny as Britannica
** Yolanda as Black (or rather, Bruja) Magic

** Sam has a history in the business of being an arrogant and selfish jerk with a litany of flops and bad projects. Thus, when he tries to sell a script of Ruth's, he finds it hard to be taken seriously.

** When Ruth reveals that the show is doomed because she ran out on a CastingCouch moment with the channel's executive, Sam becomes outraged, not at Ruth for screwing the show, but at the executive for putting her through that. This is in contrast to Debbie, who has previously lambasted Ruth.

* StrawPolitical: Bash's mother is a hyper-conservative admirer of Nancy Reagan who hates liberals. She's unwilling to support his projects when he tries to sell them as a sob story about the dispossessed, but finally gets it and decides to support him financially when she sees Ruth give an honest but purely selfish reason for her role in *GLOW*.