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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZqDO6cTYVY Wikipedia (GLOW) | Wikipedia (TV Show) | Twitter | IMDB G.L.O.W. Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, also known as GLOW or G.L.O.W., is a women's professional wrestling promotion begun in 1986 and continued in various forms after it left television. Colorful characters, strong women and over-the-top comedy sketches were integral to the series' success. Most of the performers were actresses, models, dancers and/or stunt women hoping to get into show business through wrestling. Show Synopsis posted:Set in 1980s Los Angeles, Ruth Wilder, a struggling actress, receives an invitation for an audition along with 12 other women in a fledgling professional wrestling promotion called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW). Alison Brie as Ruth Wilder Betty Gilpin as Debbie Eagan Marc Maron as Sam Sylvia Britney Young as Carmen Wade Sydelle Noel as Cherry Bang Britt Baron as Justine Jackie Tohn as Melrose Kimmy Gatewood as Stacey Rebekka Johnson as Dawn Kate Nash as Rhonda Sunita Mani as Arthie Kia Stevens as Tammé Gayle Rankin as Sheila the She Wolf Ellen Wong as Jenny Chris Lowell as Sebastian “Bash” Howard Alex Rich as Florian Videos: Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZqDO6cTYVY Teaser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgW8p6F0oAY Featurette - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66qxBlU660 Glow: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling | Documentry (what this show is based on) Posters: http://i.imgur.com/jgjstzi.gifv drunkill fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jun 23, 2017 |
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Will need to watch this at some point. Sounds awesome.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 12:42 |
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Saw the first 2 episodes of this. Pretty good so far! Really short, though. 10 half hour long episodes.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 13:20 |
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Reinanigans posted:Saw the first 2 episodes of this. Pretty good so far! I'm honestly OK with that. I've honestly been liking Netflix putting out half-hour shows the last couple of years. Sometimes you just have a little time to kill between things, or you just want to kill a lazy Sunday afternoon and still enjoy some time in sunlight.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 13:25 |
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Seeing Alison Brie topless in the first episode makes up for the fact that we never saw Justin Theroux's cock in The Leftovers. Show is good so far.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 13:37 |
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Gorn Myson posted:Seeing Alison Brie topless in the first episode makes up for the fact that we never saw Justin Theroux's cock in The Leftovers. gently caress time to watch this now.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 13:43 |
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well, now i'm hooked. this is pretty awesome.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 14:00 |
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Right? Tits are awesome.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 14:04 |
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However in the context of a character so downtrodden and in terrible 80's make-up it does rather drains the sexiness out of it. Found the first episode good enough that I'll carry on watching but it wasn't earth shattering.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 15:10 |
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Huh, so this is based on a true story and this wrestling league was actually televised during the 80's and 90's. I'm an 80's/90's kid and I don't seem to recall remembering seeing this on TV though.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 15:31 |
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Mister Fister posted:Huh, so this is based on a true story and this wrestling league was actually televised during the 80's and 90's. I'm an 80's/90's kid and I don't seem to recall remembering seeing this on TV though. Inspired more so than based on. I'm through the first five episodes and find it pretty good though. But I'm a wrestling mark, so I was destined to like this.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 15:51 |
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I loving love wrestling, I loving love Alison Brie and I lowkey love Jenji Kohan's shows enough that I enjoyed the back half of Weeds. This show is 100% my jam so far. I'm only finishing up the pilot now, but other than the obvious 'loving her best friend's husband'-- and I'm sure she'll have more flaws later-- this is probably the most genuinely good person to head one of Kohan's shows. Like, Nancy and Piper are loving unsalvagable pieces of poo poo, for the most part. That's why I like them so much, and am so forgiving of Kohan's poo poo. From the start Ruth just seems like a genuinely good, sympathetic person who's definitely made a few mistakes. idk that just really struck me as different from the typical intro to a Kohan protagonist. I guess Nancy didn't seem all that bad first off, hers was more of a descent into being a POS. Brie is really good so far, and this homo is pleased she got them titties out. Kind of looking forward to mostly half hour episodes. The first few seasons of Weeds were super snappy, whereas the running time of Orange is the New Black can really drag it down sometimes. e: if Alison really did all her spots and bumps for this show, I'm impressed. There was at least one spot off the turnbuckle in the pilot I kind of assume was a double esperterra fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Jun 23, 2017 |
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Finished the season. It's a great show and it's nice to have an OITNB-esque show where the lead character isn't an insufferable rear end in a top hat, hogging time away from far more interesting sub-stories. As an Englishman who was at university when Kate Nash was in the charts, my biggest shock is still reserved for seeing her as a prominent character (and putting in a good performance). But as a wrestling fan, I'm not only not embarrassed by the show but ridiculously excited for Season 2 already. It can't come quickly enough. After all, the money is in the chase.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 16:44 |
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I want a drug robot.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 17:23 |
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This has a really good soundtrack too, I'm having to stop netflix skipping the credits after 5 seconds (it used to be 15) to continue listening to songs.esperterra posted:I loving love wrestling, I loving love Alison Brie and I lowkey love Jenji Kohan's shows enough that I enjoyed the back half of Weeds.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 17:37 |
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This is a lot of fun after the first 2 eps. Weird to see Kate Nash too
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 17:43 |
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Oh, nice! No wonder it feels refreshing. I'm on episode 4, really loving this so far. e: it's like when people think Tim Burton wrote and directed Nightmare Before Christmas or some poo poo. I didn't read a lot about this show back when they announced it, wrestling + Brie was enough to sell me, but I remember a lot of talk about Kohan's attachment and assumed she was showrunning. esperterra fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jun 23, 2017 |
# ? Jun 23, 2017 17:44 |
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Finished ep7 and this show is pretty great. As a wrestling fan, it's a lot of fun playing Spot The Actual Wrestler too. So far I've spotted John Morrison, Brodus Clay, Christopher Daniels and Joey Ryan.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 17:55 |
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On man, Alex Riley and the PWG arena gets an appearance as well. drat this show is so entertaining and accessible at 30 minutes a pop.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 20:03 |
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Marc Maron is very good at playing a sleazy horny cokehead No seriously, he's great in this. And all the Ladies are killing it. I grew up on 80s wrestling so this is my jam.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 20:09 |
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I'm quite enjoying this show so far.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 20:33 |
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Finished ep7 and this show is pretty great. As a wrestling fan, it's a lot of fun playing Spot The Actual Wrestler too. So far I've spotted John Morrison, Brodus Clay, Christopher Daniels and Joey Ryan. Carlito (with actual apple), *I think* Frankie Kazarian, and Alex Riley got his rocks off...
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:20 |
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I think the one thing I really love about this is show is that it actually seems to understand wrestling. Not specifically the day-in/day-out details of how a fed is run, but its silliness and its theatre. That scene in the second episode where Maron's character slowly choreographs an angle which directly references how Brie's character created a rift with her best friend is a perfect example; wrestling takes a basic piece of human drama and then turns it into a theatrical conflict. It loving owns.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 21:33 |
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"Ow... gently caress... I'm having a miscarrige." This is loving awesome!
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Finished ep7 and this show is pretty great. As a wrestling fan, it's a lot of fun playing Spot The Actual Wrestler too. So far I've spotted John Morrison, Brodus Clay, Christopher Daniels and Joey Ryan. I know she's mentioned in the OP, but, uh, Awesome Kong/Kharma is actually a regular.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 22:47 |
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Gaz-L posted:I know she's mentioned in the OP, but, uh, Awesome Kong/Kharma is actually a regular. Well, yeah, I didn't really consider her a spot, since she's a pretty major character. I assume Brodus Clay's brother is a wrestler too, but I don't recognize him at all.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 23:29 |
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I assume Brodus Clay's brother is a wrestler too, but I don't recognize him at all.
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# ? Jun 23, 2017 23:44 |
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Gorn Myson posted:Carlito Caribbean Cool. ...that's Carlito? Did he stop eating apples and start eating literally everything else? He looks like 100lbs heavier than I remember him.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 00:15 |
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I have only seen the pilot so far and never watched the original show but I have seen the documentary about GLOW that is also on Netflix and I have to ask, are the actors here playing real people or original characters based on real people?
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 01:06 |
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Wrageowrapper posted:I have only seen the pilot so far and never watched the original show but I have seen the documentary about GLOW that is also on Netflix and I have to ask, are the actors here playing real people or original characters based on real people? Original characters based on real people.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 01:06 |
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I'm on episode 5 and loving it but I gotta ask... when does the actual wrestling start? Season 2?
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 02:04 |
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Goddamn Bash is so quintessentially 80s it's like he came out of a Judd Nelson cloning facility.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 02:55 |
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I don't know what my favorite part of the show was, whether it was everything related to the Zoya character, my appreciation for all of the foreshadowing of the Justine twist when I rewatch it with my friend, or all the wrestling in-jokes I got and laughed at.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 02:58 |
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I'm like, 10 minutes into the first episode and I've already heard Patty Smyth and Sylvester and this rules.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 03:45 |
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This show is really great. My wife had to be cajoled into seeing the "wrestling show with that one actress from that sitcom that you only saw two episodes of," but thankfully we're both big Orange fans and I got her into it that way. She absolutely loves the show, we both love the soundtrack, I'm happy that Brie was given the chance to do something out of her usual wheelhouse, and we've got one episode left. Episode 8: When was the last time you actually saw somebody on TV go through with an abortion?
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 04:01 |
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Yeah this whole season blows past in like no time its really drat good all around.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 04:03 |
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Watched it all the way thru. Utterly perfect. Could've used more Johnny Mundo.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 04:48 |
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Gumby posted:Episode 8: When was the last time you actually saw somebody on TV go through with an abortion? No big deal, just a womb-goof.
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# ? Jun 24, 2017 04:59 |
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She was really channeling Annie Edison in that last ep; I thought they were heading towards her finding out that she actually makes a great director. All in all I found it pretty fun; I don't like wrestling at all so I was going to write it off, thinking it was about Alison Brie fighting her way to the top of the ring, but what we actually got was much more compelling than I'd expected.
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The little things in the show make me laugh, like someone having to take a taxi cab all the way from Malibu to Pasadena. That's 44 highway miles or almost 2 hours in bad traffic, plenty of time to sober up. Also, for some reason the only thing stuck in my head is the very very 80s Mike and Maria Kanellis theme from Smackdown. "I'm burning up in your love❤️ ..." Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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