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** Rhonda [[CitizenshipMarriage marries [[spoiler:Bash]] for a green card]], but he has the ulterior motive of needing a wife to prove to the world that he's straight.

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** Rhonda [[CitizenshipMarriage [[CitizenshipMarriage]] marries [[spoiler:Bash]] [[spoiler:Bash for a green card]], but he has the ulterior motive of needing a wife to prove to the world that he's straight.
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Ambiguously Brown wick cleaning. Characters are of the same ethnicity as the actors that play them.


* AmbiguouslyBrown: Carmen, for the first two seasons. Her actor is half-white and half-black, and her father is played by a light-skinned black man, but her brothers are played by another light-skinned African-American (Wrestling/BrodusClay) and a Puerto Rican ([[Wrestling/CarlitoColon Carlito]]), and she describes herself as part Cherokee. Her wrestling character is Peruvian. In season 3, Carmen reveals her mother is black and her father is mixed, much to the surprise of the other girls.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Carmen, for the first two seasons. Her actor is half-white and half-black, and her father is played by a light-skinned black man, but her brothers are played by another light-skinned African-American (Brodus Clay) and a Puerto Rican (Carlito), and she describes herself as part Cherokee. Her wrestling character is Peruvian. In season 3, Carmen reveals her mother is black and her father is mixed, much to the surprise of the other girls.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Carmen, for the first two seasons. Her actor is half-white and half-black, and her father is played by a light-skinned black man, but her brothers are played by another light-skinned African-American (Brodus Clay) (Wrestling/BrodusClay) and a Puerto Rican (Carlito), ([[Wrestling/CarlitoColon Carlito]]), and she describes herself as part Cherokee. Her wrestling character is Peruvian. In season 3, Carmen reveals her mother is black and her father is mixed, much to the surprise of the other girls.



** Cherry Bang's attempt at starring in a cop show go very badly. Even when she can remember her lines, her delivery is extremely bad. [[DiscussedTrope Sam eventually lays it out for her]]: She is a stuntwoman who has no training or experience with standard line delivery. If she starts taking classes and working at it now she can eventually ''become'' an actor, but as it is now she simply doesn't have the skills. She ends up returning to wrestling because of it.

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** Cherry Bang's attempt at starring in a cop show go goes very badly. Even when she can remember her lines, her delivery is extremely bad. [[DiscussedTrope Sam eventually lays it out for her]]: She is a stuntwoman who has no training or experience with standard line delivery. If she starts taking classes and working at it now she can eventually ''become'' an actor, but as it is now she simply doesn't have the skills. She ends up returning to wrestling because of it.



** Rhonda marries [[spoiler:Bash]] for a green card, but he has the ulterior motive of needing a wife to prove to the world that he's straight.

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** Rhonda [[CitizenshipMarriage marries [[spoiler:Bash]] for a green card, card]], but he has the ulterior motive of needing a wife to prove to the world that he's straight.



** Invoked by Cherry and Tamme when they get the team otherwise known as the Beatdown Biddies (two young women playing kayfabe old ladies) to dress up like Klansmen.

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** Invoked by Cherry and Tamme Tammé when they get the team otherwise known as the Beatdown Biddies (two young women playing kayfabe old ladies) to dress up like Klansmen.



** Subverted by Sheila when she reveals that she can play the piano. She can only peck out one dreary song. She's later proves to be a good typer, if that's something.

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** Subverted by Sheila when she reveals that she can play the piano. She can only peck out one dreary song. She's later proves to be a good typer, typist, if that's something.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Inverted when Justine shows visible annoyance at the end of a GLOW scene when Britannica is supposed to grind up against her.
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* AbsenteeActor: Season 2's "Mother of All Matches" centers on Tamme and Debbie, and the only other members of the main cast who appear are Ruth and Carmen.

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* RealityEnsues:
** In season 3, the characters are finally successful with the Vegas show providing them with steady work and good paychecks. However, this type of lifestyle also has downsides that take their toll on them. Debbie has to commute back and forth between Los Angeles and Las Vegas to see her son and she misses his first steps. Ruth's boyfriend has to stay in Los Angeles and they have trouble maintaining the relationship. Sheila's wolf persona prevents her from moving into more serious acting roles. Tamme is injured but the regular performance schedule does not give her time to properly heal. Cherry realizes that if she gets pregnant she will have to leave the show and might never return while getting in debt due to compulsive gambling. Carmen hits a creative peak as she realizes that if she stays with the show she will never get to do the type of wrestling she really wants.
** 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.
** 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.
** Sheila has apparently wanted to be an actor since she showed up to the GLOW casting call, but she consistently resists removing her wolf outfit for any reason. In Season 3, when she starts taking acting lessons, the teacher tells her that she'll never get any roles if she insists on always dressing like a wolf. This forces her to have to choose between her acting career and her wolf lifestyle.
** Tamme has been putting her show business dreams on the back burner while her son grew up and she enters it (and wrestling) as a middle-aged woman. In Season 3, she develops back pain and tries to self-medicate while still doing the lifting and throwing in her Welfare Queen routine, she ends up almost physically crippled and may have to give up wrestling.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In season 3, the characters are finally successful with the Vegas show providing them with steady work and good paychecks. However, this type of lifestyle also has downsides that take their toll on them. Debbie has to commute back and forth between Los Angeles and Las Vegas to see her son and she misses his first steps. Ruth's boyfriend has to stay in Los Angeles and they have trouble maintaining the relationship. Sheila's wolf persona prevents her from moving into more serious acting roles. Tamme is injured but the regular performance schedule does not give her time to properly heal. Cherry realizes that if she gets pregnant she will have to leave the show and might never return while getting in debt due to compulsive gambling. Carmen hits a creative peak as she realizes that if she stays with the show she will never get to do the type of wrestling she really wants.
** 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.
** 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.
** Sheila has apparently wanted to be an actor since she showed up to the GLOW casting call, but she consistently resists removing her wolf outfit for any reason. In Season 3, when she starts taking acting lessons, the teacher tells her that she'll never get any roles if she insists on always dressing like a wolf. This forces her to have to choose between her acting career and her wolf lifestyle.
** Tamme has been putting her show business dreams on the back burner while her son grew up and she enters it (and wrestling) as a middle-aged woman. In Season 3, she develops back pain and tries to self-medicate while still doing the lifting and throwing in her Welfare Queen routine, she ends up almost physically crippled and may have to give up wrestling.



* TechnicianVsPerformer: Debbie and Ruth. Debbie is naturally charismatic and classically beautiful, but becomes unstuck when she has to plan her promos or matches herself. Ruth lacks her magnetic personality and amazonian looks, but is more deeply committed to the craft of acting and creating drama. They eventually realize that they do their best work together.

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* TechnicianVsPerformer: Debbie and Ruth. Debbie is naturally charismatic and classically beautiful, but becomes unstuck when she has to plan her promos or matches herself. Ruth lacks her magnetic personality and amazonian Amazonian looks, but is more deeply committed to the craft of acting and creating drama. They eventually realize that they do their best work together.

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* AssPull: Invoked as part of the wrestling matches.
** InUniverse, when GLOW's first episode is almost finished with a crowd-satisfying victory for the AllAmericanFace, Sam injects a new epilogue in which the Welfare Queen comes out of nowhere to steal her crown. Ruth and Debbie protest, but Sam insists that the show needed a {{cliffhanger}} to drive the next's episode's plot.
** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Carmen is booked to win the title in the battle royal, but Sam calls an audible and asks a still-recovering Ruth to take her headphones off and eliminate all three women still in the ring – Debbie, Carmen, and Sheila – by kicking them as she descends into the ring via zipline.]]



* ShockingSwerve:
** InUniverse, when GLOW's first episode is almost finished with a crowd-satisfying victory for the AllAmericanFace, Sam injects a new epilogue in which the Welfare Queen comes out of nowhere to steal her crown. Ruth and Debbie protest, but Sam insists that the show needed a {{cliffhanger}} to drive the next's episode's plot.
** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Carmen is booked to win the title in the battle royal, but Sam calls an audible and asks a still-recovering Ruth to take her headphones off and eliminate all three women still in the ring – Debbie, Carmen, and Sheila – by kicking them as she descends into the ring via zipline.]]



* WorkedShoot: The season 1 finale features Debbie apparently choosing not to participate in the taping, with Ruth-as-Zoya being crowned GLOW champion... then Debbie stands up in the stands to challenge her, and wins as Liberty Belle, with it being revealed that Debbie's attending but not participating was all a work. Then Sam has a last-minute improvisation where Tamme [[ShockingSwerve wins the title from Debbie, so as to give the fans what they didn't expect and keep the story going]].

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* WorkedShoot: The season 1 finale features Debbie apparently choosing not to participate in the taping, with Ruth-as-Zoya being crowned GLOW champion... then Debbie stands up in the stands to challenge her, and wins as Liberty Belle, with it being revealed that Debbie's attending but not participating was all a work. Then Sam has a last-minute improvisation where Tamme [[ShockingSwerve Tamme wins the title from Debbie, so as to give the fans what they didn't expect and keep the story going]].going.
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Creator/{{IDW|Publishing}} a ''GLOW'' comicbook series in 2019 and followed with ''GLOW vs the Babyface'' in 2019 to 2020.

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Creator/{{IDW|Publishing}} published a ''GLOW'' comicbook series in 2019 and followed with ''GLOW vs the Babyface'' in 2019 to 2020.
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The show stars Creator/AlisonBrie as Ruth Wilder, a broke, down-on-her-luck aspiring actress in 1980s LA, who finds one last chance for stardom when she's thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women's wrestling.

Alongside other colorful newcomers, Ruth has to deal with [[{{Understatement}} estranged]] friend Debbie Eagan (Creator/BettyGilpin), 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.

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The show stars Creator/AlisonBrie as Ruth Wilder, a broke, down-on-her-luck aspiring actress actor in 1980s LA, who finds one last chance for stardom when she's thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women's wrestling.

Alongside other colorful newcomers, Ruth has to deal with [[{{Understatement}} estranged]] friend Debbie Eagan (Creator/BettyGilpin), a former soap actress opera actor 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.



* AmbiguouslyBrown: Carmen, for the first two seasons. The actress is half-white and half-black, and her father is played by a light-skinned black man, but her brothers are played by another light-skinned African-American (Brodus Clay) and a Puerto Rican (Carlito), and she describes herself as part Cherokee. Her wrestling character is Peruvian. In season 3, Carmen reveals her mother is black and her father is mixed, much to the surprise of the other girls.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Carmen, for the first two seasons. The actress Her actor is half-white and half-black, and her father is played by a light-skinned black man, but her brothers are played by another light-skinned African-American (Brodus Clay) and a Puerto Rican (Carlito), and she describes herself as part Cherokee. Her wrestling character is Peruvian. In season 3, Carmen reveals her mother is black and her father is mixed, much to the surprise of the other girls.



** Cherry Bang's attempt at starring in a cop show go very badly. Even when she can remember her lines, her delivery is extremely bad. [[DiscussedTrope Sam eventually lays it out for her]]: She is a stuntwoman who has no training or experience with standard line delivery. If she starts taking classes and working at it now she can eventually ''become'' an actress, but as it is now she simply doesn't have the skills. She ends up returning to wrestling because of it.
** Most of the GLOW girls are not trained actresses, so their performances are often either wooden or hammy, though hammy is basically what the show is going for. Reggie in particular has no stage charisma and obviously got the job purely on physicality.

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** Cherry Bang's attempt at starring in a cop show go very badly. Even when she can remember her lines, her delivery is extremely bad. [[DiscussedTrope Sam eventually lays it out for her]]: She is a stuntwoman who has no training or experience with standard line delivery. If she starts taking classes and working at it now she can eventually ''become'' an actress, actor, but as it is now she simply doesn't have the skills. She ends up returning to wrestling because of it.
** Most of the GLOW girls are not trained actresses, actors, so their performances are often either wooden or hammy, though hammy is basically what the show is going for. Reggie in particular has no stage charisma and obviously got the job purely on physicality.



* DanceOff: Junkchain and Zoya get into one of these in season 2 due to Yolanda, Junkchain's new actress, being a skilled dancer with no wrestling experience.

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* DanceOff: Junkchain and Zoya get into one of these in season 2 due to Yolanda, Junkchain's new actress, actor, being a skilled dancer with no wrestling experience.



* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Early in season 2, Cherry leaves the wrestling show when she gets the starring role in a new police show. However, she lacks the training and experience of a professional actress and the production quickly gets in trouble. She asks Sam for help and he honestly tells her that she is not competent enough to do the job. In a few years she might acquire the necessary skills but right now her only choice is to find a way to walk away from the show before she gets fired and gets a bad reputation in the industry. Sam finds a way for everyone involved to save face and Cherry returns to wrestling.

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Early in season 2, Cherry leaves the wrestling show when she gets the starring role in a new police show. However, she lacks the training and experience of a professional actress actor and the production quickly gets in trouble. She asks Sam for help and he honestly tells her that she is not competent enough to do the job. In a few years she might acquire the necessary skills but right now her only choice is to find a way to walk away from the show before she gets fired and gets a bad reputation in the industry. Sam finds a way for everyone involved to save face and Cherry returns to wrestling.



* ThePeterPrinciple: Cherry Bang is a very good stuntwoman and has a really good stage presence, so she is offered a leading role on a new cop show. However, she is not a trained actress and quickly runs into trouble. She has problems with her lines and does not interact well with other actors on camera. In the end, Sam gets her out of her contract before she is fired and her reputation in the industry ruined.

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* ThePeterPrinciple: Cherry Bang is a very good stuntwoman and has a really good stage presence, so she is offered a leading role on a new cop show. However, she is not a trained actress actor and quickly runs into trouble. She has problems with her lines and does not interact well with other actors on camera. In the end, Sam gets her out of her contract before she is fired and her reputation in the industry ruined.



** Fictional wrestler Carmen aka Machu Picchu has a black father, just like her actress, Britney Young, does. Her real-life equivalent, Emily Dole, is Samoan-American. (Strangely, her two brothers' actors are of different races/nationalities – George "Brodus Clay/Tyrus" Murdoch is African-American, while Carlito Colon is Puerto Rican.)

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** Fictional wrestler Carmen aka Machu Picchu has a black father, just like her actress, actor, Britney Young, does. Her real-life equivalent, Emily Dole, is Samoan-American. (Strangely, her two brothers' actors are of different races/nationalities – George "Brodus Clay/Tyrus" Murdoch is African-American, while Carlito Colon is Puerto Rican.)



** Sheila has apparently wanted to be an actress since she showed up to the GLOW casting call, but she consistently resists removing her wolf outfit for any reason. In Season 3, when she starts taking acting lessons, the teacher tells her that she'll never get any roles if she insists on always dressing like a wolf. This forces her to have to choose between her acting career and her wolf lifestyle.

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** Sheila has apparently wanted to be an actress actor since she showed up to the GLOW casting call, but she consistently resists removing her wolf outfit for any reason. In Season 3, when she starts taking acting lessons, the teacher tells her that she'll never get any roles if she insists on always dressing like a wolf. This forces her to have to choose between her acting career and her wolf lifestyle.
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* SurpriseIncest: Almost. [[spoiler:Sam thinks Justine keeps following him around because she's got a crush on him. When she turns up in his hotel room one night, he tries to kiss her, but she shuts him down: the reason she's been hanging around is because she's been working up the nerve to tell him he's her dad.]]
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Alongside other colorful newcomers, Ruth has to deal with [[{{Understatement}} estranged]] friend 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.

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Alongside other colorful newcomers, Ruth has to deal with [[{{Understatement}} estranged]] friend Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin), (Creator/BettyGilpin), 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.
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* CountryMatters: Sam thinks he can [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar get crap past the radar]] by naming the villain in his initial draft of the show "Kuntar."

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* CountryMatters: Sam thinks he can [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar get crap sneak past the radar]] censors by naming the villain in his initial draft of the show "Kuntar."
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* ProducedByCastMember: In-universe, Debbie becomes a producer of ''GLOW''.

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* ProducedByCastMember: In-universe, Debbie becomes a producer of ''GLOW''.''GLOW'' while still playing Liberty Belle.
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* ProducedByCastMember: In-universe, Debbie becomes a producer of ''GLOW''.
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->'''Bash (announcing):''' Bash Howard Productions and Patio Town Inc. proudly present, from the Hayworth Hotel in Los Angeles, California, it's G.L.O.W., the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling!\\

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->'''Bash (announcing):''' Bash
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Wrestling!"''
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* CastingGag:
** Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr being cast, as one of his uncles, Mando, actually served as a trainer for the actual Wrestling/{{GLOW}} promotion (ironically, Chavo was also a behind-the-scenes wrestling trainer for the show before he was cast in front of the camera).
** Mark (Creator/RichSommer) and Ruth (Creator/AlisonBrie) co-starred together on ''Series/MadMen'' as Harry Crane and Trudy Campbell. [[spoiler:Unlike on ''GLOW'' they never had any sort of romantic relationship during the run of the show; in fact, they were rarely even in scenes together.]]
** Tammé (Wrestling/KiaStevens) mentions that she used to work on ''Series/FamilyFeud''. Stevens' mother worked on the show.
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* AbortedArc: Season 3 introduces and drops multiple plot threads cold. These include [[spoiler:Debbie's eating disorder and her desire to quit working to be a parent to her child (although you can argue that the inner turmoil that caused this is resolved with her inclusion in purchasing a TV network), Tamme's injury transitioning her to a manager is never seen, and while it's obviously intended to be followed up on in a future season 4 and beyond, Sam and Ruth's plotline in Season 3 ends with a fight over Ruth being rejected for a part in Justine's movie, without even attempting a reconciliation.]]
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** 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.friendship.]]

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** 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.friendship.]]
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%%* BittersweetEnding: Both Season 2 and 3 ends with these.
%%** 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.friendship.]]
%%** 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, while Bash now struggles 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 indebted 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.]]

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%%* * BittersweetEnding: Both Season 2 and 3 ends with these.
%%** ** 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.friendship.]]
%%** ** 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, while Bash now struggles 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 indebted 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.]]
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The first season premiered on June 23, 2017; the trailer can be found [[https://youtu.be/AZqDO6cTYVY here]]. After a successful second season and third season, it was renewed for a fourth and final season on September 20, 2019.

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The first season premiered on June 23, 2017; the trailer can be found [[https://youtu.be/AZqDO6cTYVY here]]. After a successful second season and third season, it was renewed for a fourth and final season on September 20, 2019.
2019. However, on October 5, 2020, it was revealed that Netflix had [[https://deadline.com/2020/10/glow-canceled-netflix-wont-proceed-no-season-4-final-season-renewal-reversal-covid-19-creators-liz-flahive-and-carly-mensch-react-to-cancellation-1234591535/ canceled]] production on this final season due to the ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, ending the series at three seasons.
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** Tamme has been putting her show business dreams on the back burner while her son grew up and she enters it (and wrestling) as a middle-aged woman. In Season 3, she develops back pain and tries to self-medicate while still doing the lifting and throwing in her Welfare Queen routine, she ends up almost physically crippled and may have to give up wrestling.
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** When Bash is having a nervous breakdown over his inability to suppress his homosexuality, he states that he does not want to die, presumably of AIDS.

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** When Bash [[spoiler:Bash]] is having a nervous breakdown over his inability to suppress his homosexuality, he states that he does not want to die, presumably of AIDS.

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Creator/{{IDW|Publishing}} a ''GLOW'' comicbook series in 2019 and followed with ''GLOW vs the Babyface'' in 2019 to 2020.




A series of comics based on the program is also now available.
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%%** 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 expires, while Bash now struggling struggles 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 indebted 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.]]

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%%** 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 expires, while Bash now struggling struggles 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 indebted 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.]]
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** The subplot between Black Magic and Britannica in "The Good Twin" carries several references to ''Film/WeirdScience'' and ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

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** The subplot between Black Magic and Britannica in "The Good Twin" carries several references to ''Film/WeirdScience'' and ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid''.
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%%* BittersweetEnding: Both Season 2 and 3 ends with these.
%%** 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.friendship.]]
%%** 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 expires, while Bash now struggling struggles 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 indebted 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.]]

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* NWordPrivileges: When Tamme is called a "big black girl", she responds with an angry PrecisionFStrike.
--> The fuck you say!?

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* NWordPrivileges: When Tamme is called a "big black girl", she responds with an angry PrecisionFStrike.
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"[[PrecisionFStrike The fuck you say!?say]]!?"

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** Subverted by Sheila when she reveals that she can play the piano. She can only peck out one dreary song.
*** But later played straight when it is revealed that Sheila is an expert at typewriting.

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** Subverted by Sheila when she reveals that she can play the piano. She can only peck out one dreary song.
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song. She's later played straight when it is revealed that Sheila is an expert at typewriting.proves to be a good typer, if that's something.
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* BittersweetEnding: Both Season 2 and 3 ends with these.
** Season 2 ends with [[spoiler:GLOW getting screwed over by the network just because Ruth refused to have sex 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 friendship.]]
** 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, while Bash now struggles 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 indebted 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.]]

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