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Beatman1 Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
#1: Jun 13th 2017 at 8:12:52 AM

From Jenji Kohan and airing on Netflix comes the fictional account of women on a real 80's female only wrestling league where the women engaged in fictional violence.

Got all that?

The Initial EW review gives it an A.

Prime_of_Perfection Where force fails, cunning prevails Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Where force fails, cunning prevails
#2: Jun 13th 2017 at 8:34:33 AM

I clicked on this thinking about the women's wrestling company and wondering what this could really be. Surprised it's in fact related to it.

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occono from Ireland. Since: Apr, 2009
#3: Jun 16th 2017 at 8:05:37 AM

I believe Jenji is just a producer, she's not the head of the show.

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Beatman1 Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
Buzzinator Monkey See, DIC Do Since: Feb, 2014
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#5: Jun 23rd 2017 at 1:00:43 PM

[up] The reviews sure are glowing.

edited 23rd Jun '17 1:01:52 PM by Buzzinator

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mrsunshinesprinkles Forever Gorgeous from Somewhere, crying Since: Jan, 2012
Forever Gorgeous
#6: Jun 24th 2017 at 5:01:39 AM

They've made a show that's so for me it's not real.

That intro is money, a pro-wrestling story about the wrestlers as performers is something I've been begging for, the fact that it's about women and the institutional sexism in the business is just ugh This is too much. This is too good.

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alliterator Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Jul 1st 2017 at 8:14:27 AM

I just got finished watching this show and yes, it is so good.

Man, between this show and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, who expected all these jokes about period sex?

Also, I can't believe that Marc Maron is actually a really good actor.

edited 1st Jul '17 8:15:03 AM by alliterator

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#8: Jul 1st 2017 at 8:51:03 AM

I was introduced to this by an acquaintance who told me that John Morrison, Brodus Clay, and a few others guys were in this, along with Awesome Kong (who has lost a lot of weight).

I'm liking it so far.

One Strip! One Strip!
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Jul 1st 2017 at 12:25:55 PM

This is an amazingly great series.

Albeit, Ruth is my least favorite character by far. Not just because of what she did to her bestie but also because she's incredibly passive aggressive.

I also love Rhonda far more than I should.

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Ulysses21 Since: Mar, 2015
#10: Jul 3rd 2017 at 7:08:05 AM

Agreed that Ruth might be one of the least likable characters in the show, but she's also a great character to watch as she is so very aware of her own flaws. I think I would get on better with Ruth than Debbie though, such a diva, she thinks so highly of herself, I sometimes had a hard time feeling sorry for her even though she got cheated on. Ruth just wants to act, she doesn't seem to care about the fame and attention it might bring.

Nouct over the front from an east coast Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
over the front
#11: Jul 22nd 2017 at 3:39:59 PM

Binged this show, it's fantastic. I'm not really into wrestling but the premise of struggling actresses finding a new venture that they find they're good at got me to watch and by the end of the first episode, I was hooked.

Most of the cast was great and the tenth episode was a fitting conclusion to the show.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#12: Jul 22nd 2017 at 4:12:09 PM

I'm one episode away from being done. I've enjoyed it, what with being a long time wrestling fan and all. It was fun seeing the cameos from a lot of actual Wrestlers as well.

Awesome Kong has lots a ridiculous amount of weight.

One Strip! One Strip!
Beatman1 Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Gone fishin'
#13: Apr 18th 2018 at 10:37:12 AM

Season 2 of GLOW is coming:

June 29th.

Hackett13 Since: May, 2017
#14: Jul 2nd 2018 at 6:02:38 AM

Just finished binge watching the second season. Loved it just as much as the first.

BigMadDraco Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#15: Jul 2nd 2018 at 3:28:58 PM

It was fun having an episode of the in universe show, also a Chavo Guerrero cameo.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#16: Jul 2nd 2018 at 9:54:08 PM

Well,that was nutty.

This show is such a great inside look at the wrestling process. And it's fun too. I never watched the actual Glow (pretty sure I was way too young for it), but I had no clue it was so ridiculous (if this show is an accurate representation of the Real Glow, which, if a quick youtube clip I saw is anything to go on, it is).

One Strip! One Strip!
Whowho Since: May, 2012
#17: Jul 3rd 2018 at 2:30:17 PM

Freaking love this show. I can't over state my love for it.

BigMadDraco Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#18: Jul 3rd 2018 at 8:39:25 PM

My biggest complaint is that now I have to wait another year for the next episodes.

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#19: Jul 4th 2018 at 8:24:52 AM

Is Sam going to be a little irrelavent now that they're a stage show?

BigMadDraco Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#20: Jul 4th 2018 at 2:23:25 PM

[up]Sam's still a writer. Also, while this is more inspired by GLOW than any kind of direct dramatization GLOW became a nationally syndicated program after moving to the Riviera

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#21: Jul 4th 2018 at 2:32:46 PM

However, most of the wrestling matches we see plotted are plotted by the actual wrestlers. We haven't actually seen Sam do any writing this season save for the vest last moment of the in universe season.

dmcreif Vault Dweller from Vault 33 (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Robosexual
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#22: Jul 19th 2018 at 8:05:52 PM

Man fuck Debbie, is no one going to hold her accountable? I enjoy Debbie's character a lot for being imperfect and complex. There's a lot of depth there and that's great, but I can't BELIEVE what she's getting away with. She is distant and cold with almost all of the other girls. Which, fine, be distant and cold. She treats Ruth like fucking trash. And she's allowed to dislike Ruth - Lord knows she has reasons, but it feels a little like the writers didn't have any one else go at Debbie because they wanted that scene in the hospital with Ruth. And it's a great scene, but with the way these girls talk to each other it is a little unreal to me that nobody told her to "What the hell do you think you are, showing up after breaking your costar's leg? You're not welcome here, get out" when she showed up at the hospital.

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Whowho Since: May, 2012
#23: Jul 20th 2018 at 8:28:37 AM

It would have been damm shitty for her NOT to turn up, she has a duty to apologise, even if it's understandable for her to take her time due to guilt.

No the thing that really gets me about Debbie (and the show does call her out for this) is that she doesn't have the other women's backs. She negotiates a better contract for herself, but not for anyone else, and worst at all she chews Ruth out for not being raped. I think working in TV has caused her to internalise a lot of the mysogony in that industry and it's good to see her work out of that in the season conclusion.

She also sabotaged Ruth's date after Ruth explicitly asked her for permission to date, but that scene reads really weirdly to me, because it's also clear that Deddie didn't want to go home and be alone, and it is reasonable for Ruth to want to support her friend. Really the person who was an ass about that date with was the camera guy, like, I didn't get why he didn't appreciate Ruth would want to prioritise her friend.

Though Debbie really should have admitted that she knew they had a date, but, like, would they mind postponing it on her account. (maybe that would be overstepping considering Debbie is Ruth's superior)

Oh, and doing coke before a fight was bloody stupid. I don't care how close to a breakdown you are, you don't risk people's health by doing full contact while in an altered state.

dmcreif Vault Dweller from Vault 33 (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Vault Dweller
#24: Aug 3rd 2018 at 3:36:28 PM

I was so angry at Debbie during that hospital fight. That is the very definition of gas lighting. I also felt the writers gas lighted us as well. The conversation swiftly moved past what Debbie had done, in order to have the women excavate their historical issues, and honestly, that was a cop out. The script needed to deal with what Debbie just DID. She was beating up on Ruth in the ring. Over and over we saw an uncertain, "WTF?" expression on Ruth's face as Debbie went off script and after her for real, ignoring Keith, and breaking her leg. She terrorized Ruth in that ring.

But in the hospital, it quickly moves off what happened in the ring and onto their previous history, and all that nonsense? Come on, we SAW what happened. Don't bait and switch and make it about "Oh, let's get to the core of their dynamic." I don't care at this point, 'cause we all know the dynamic anyway. The fight should be about making Debbie accountable for what she did in the ring.

If this was guys' wrestling, Debbie would get stabbed in the showers. The boys or in this case the girls would have a meeting in the back and invite you talk privately in the showers and you’d be getting some color if you know what I mean. Even taking into account that these girls are still new to professional wrestling and may not know how it's done, we needed way more of an angry/negative reaction from Sam, Bash, and the girls apart from a few side-eyes in the waiting room when Debbie showed up, the attitude from Sam and Bash that it was Debbie and Ruth's personal business, and those two men sort of feeling sympathetic to both. I could see the women (plus Sam and Bash) deciding not to ass whoop Debbie because she's the star, but they damn sure ought to have warned her pretty hard. And the girls should've shown hesitation or outright refusal to work with Debbie again. Actually hurting someone (in a way that seemed fairly purposeful) in a shoot submission is wrong.

Okey Dokey!
Whowho Since: May, 2012
#25: Aug 4th 2018 at 7:28:14 AM

I didn't realise Debbie did that fight off script, I assumed she just flubbed the leg hold because she was irresponsibly coked out of her mind.

I'll have to rewatch the scene.


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