Line #11 Trivia/GLOW2017


1	* TheCastShowoff:
2	** Creator/AlisonBrie, Creator/BettyGilpin, and Creator/JackieTohn all get to sing at various points. [[IronyAsSheIsCast Ironically]], Music/KateNash's musical performances in the show are mostly limited to incompetent raps and a solo on the [[StylisticSuck hilariously terrible anti-kidnapping song]].
3	** Shakira Berrera and Sunita Mani get to show off their dancing skills in season 2.
4	* CastTheExpert: Wrestling/KiaStevens, Wrestling/JohnMorrison, Wrestling/BrodusClay, Wrestling/CarlitoColon, and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr are all actual professional wrestlers, with Chavo Guerrero Jr. coming from a WrestlingFamily. You can also spot wrestlers Wrestling/AlexRiley, Wrestling/JoeyRyan, Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels, and Wrestling/FrankieKazarian at the wrestling show in episode five.
5	* CreatorBacklash: After the show was cancelled, many of the actresses revealed that they were very disappointed throughout its run at the lack of engagement with the idea of so many of the wrestler characters being ethnic stereotypes, which its fourth season was set to finally address in a meaningful way after they collaborated on a letter to the producers about it, which now unfortunately won't happen.
6	* DawsonCasting: Creator/BrittBaron is in her mid-twenties playing the teenage Justine.
7	* DirectedByCastMember: Creator/AlisonBrie directs the Season 3 episode "Hollywood Homecoming." Accordingly, Ruth only appears in a single scene, asleep.
8	* IronyAsSheIsCast:
9	** The Jewish actress Creator/AlisonBrie plays Ruth, who knows nothing about Judaism and spends an episode trying to figure out how to play a Communist Russian by ineptly crashing a Russian-American bris. She never seems to realize that the people she's interrogating are the people who ''fled'' the Communists, but does eventually try to switch her character from a Communist to a kvetchy Orthodox Jewish babushka.
10	** Professional musician Music/KateNash plays Rhonda, who composes and performs a completely inept rap song to promote the show.
11	** Glenn assumes that Sam is Jewish, but Sam is annoyed and snaps that he's not. He's played by the very Jewish Creator/MarcMaron.
12	* PlayingAgainstType:
13	** Creator/AlisonBrie, who is known for playing a sympathetic TheCutie or/and MsFanservice, gets to play a down-on-her-luck ({{faux\|ActionGirl}}) ActionGirl who becomes less sympathetic once she knowingly sleeps with her BestFriend's husband. Sam also tells her that he can't decide whether she's attractive, though that turns out to just be his own peculiarity.
14	** Wrestling/KiaStevens built a career of being a WrestlingMonster, but her character here is an ordinary woman who seems to enjoy participating in GLOW despite also chafing against the racist stereotypes her character embodies.
15	* PromotedFanboy: Creator/BrittBaron was a big fan of Kate Nash's music before becoming Nash's co-star on the show.
16	* 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.
17	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Ryan Nemeth, best known now for his time in ''Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling'', stated that he was cast in the cancelled final season as the boyfriend of an unspecified major character.

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