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Nobody judge me for the thread title okay New season of Netflix hit GLOW came out yesterday and it is super good! It follows them doing a live show in Vegas following the cancellation of their TV show at the end of s2, and therefore losing the rights to take their characters to another network. Alison Brie is still hilarious, Marc Maron is still sulky, Betty Gilpin still has Various Struggles. I’m not sure if I liked it as much as s2 but it’s still another solid season. Discuss!
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Aug 10, 2019 22:33
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Said it in the chat thread but holy crap that first scene was nuts, anyone who hasn't seen the show should at least see that.
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Aug 11, 2019 01:03
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It was weird hearing that Debbie's kid is only eight months old in the first or second episode. And that's after however long of a gap there is between the second and third seasons. Makes the timeline of the first two seem super compressed. Edit: Betty Gilpin's killing it with the silent rage faces this season. Randallteal fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 01:11
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Randallteal posted:It was weird hearing that Debbie's kid is only eight months old in the first or second episode. And that's after however long of a gap there is between the second and third seasons. Makes the timeline of the first two seem super compressed. They said 10 months, which still seems way too young. Binged the whole thing today. It was really good, although I think it had some structural issues. Season 1 & 2 sold the hell out of the struggle to pull this crazy thing off. Season 3 doesn't have any unifying arc with the same driving urgency, although the character drama was still on point. Possibly the strongest season yet in that regard.
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Aug 11, 2019 02:15
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Ruth's fanny pack is killing me.
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Aug 11, 2019 02:58
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Straight White Shark posted:They said 10 months, which still seems way too young. I liked the change. I think it would have started to wear thin if they were still struggling (think Silicon Valley). The character stuff was very good and it was funny.
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Aug 11, 2019 03:05
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I think I like Debbie's Zoya better. I couldn't help but laugh out loud like an idiot at "Oh Darling, I'm your daddy now" and her needling of Bash was great.
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Aug 11, 2019 03:09
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Toby Huss playing a Boz like character makes me want to re-watch Halt and Catch Fire again.
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Aug 11, 2019 05:36
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e9 i'm glad bash figured things out
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Aug 11, 2019 10:13
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Strong season from a directorial standpoint - they did a lot of weird, creative things like the camping episode and the gimmick switching/christmas carol stuff and that was fun to see. Agreed with the sentiment that they are better off not focusing on a struggling show, and it was nice to see how they just kind of got along with all the other Vegas performers instead of being treated as outsiders. That said, there were definitely structural issues - the drag performer/gay bar storyline was fun, but felt like it was from a different show and it didn't quite work trying to stuff other plots like Tex into it, IMO. Also, barely any wrestling outside of two, three episodes or thereabouts? I think it's only going to be a growing problem that a lot of the character storylines are starting to diverge, yet the show kind of needs them all to be together, otherwise it just feels off - like the whole Sam/Justine directing plot just took me out of the Vegas stuff entirely when it popped up.
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Aug 11, 2019 11:46
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Ep 3: I'm loving dying at Melrose's whole hooker mix-up, I can't breathe
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Aug 11, 2019 16:10
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I’m surprised that we saw absolutely nothing of the movie that was going to be made except an audition, but then again this is a TV show about a TV show that’s now about a theater show. I definitely liked the freaky Tuesday episode the most. Hopefully next season we have more of the wrestling of the gorgeous ladies of wrestling. And more for Arthie to do. Is it just me or was Birdie the nicest by far this season? You absolutely get a sense that she’s right and bash is wrong about so many things. Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Aug 11, 2019 21:26
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I don't normally binge watch shows but I had a lazy Saturday and wound up watching the final 7 or 8 episodes. Really good season but I still don't really get what Ruth sees in Sam other than "not Russell." Also I feel like the fire at the drag ball wasn't really dwelled on enough. Everyone experienced this horrible hate crime that could've killed people and then Yolanda was like "it wasn't targeted at you so get over it" and then it just isn't touched on again.
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Aug 11, 2019 22:23
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I think that’s a weakness of having nine different plot lines in the show.
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Aug 11, 2019 22:58
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Just finished the season, and I really liked it, aside from maybe some pacing issues in the last two episodes. One of the things the show has done well is balance a big cast, and for the most part they did again, even if Stacey, Dawn and Reggie got kinda sidelined for the the other characters. I did like the move from them being underdogs to having something more established, it gave it that knife edge 'when is it all going to fall apart' tension, which all came to a head in the camping episode. Anyone else nicely suprised that Sam didn't try and pass off the screenplay as his own work - I assumed that was going to happen, given the scenes of his writing, and that Justine gave him a copy with no front page, so it was a nice bit of character growth there. Same thing I noticed in Stranger Things, there seemed to be a lot less licensed music in this season than the first two, I guess its a cost cutting move? I was dissapointed by the abscense of GLOW-bot this season.
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Aug 11, 2019 23:11
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The first episode of the new stranger things seems to be wall-to-wall copyright music, I don’t know what you’re on about.
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Aug 11, 2019 23:57
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Also Debbie’s bulimia never really came up again huh?
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Aug 12, 2019 02:00
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Just finished the season, and yeah, it was a bit scattershot and short on actual wrestling (although Carmen doing the Undertaker was awesome). Really liked Sheila's story this season, and she was awesome doing the "Miss Julie" monologue.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:53
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Henchman of Santa posted:Also Debbie’s bulimia never really came up again huh? No, but the burger and fries did
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Aug 12, 2019 03:29
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bounced super hard off the first episode, but two and three won me back. geena davis is a treat and I'm pretty sure my fancy grandma owned that sequin power suit thing also, is the outro animation new this season? it's loving amazing.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:16
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Binged this season the other night and loved it. I feel like it's in Stranger Things territory, where intellectually I pick up structural issues but I'm enjoying the character stuff so much I'm still in love. I'm happy with each character and feel like I have a good grasp on who and what they are. But Reggie feels like a background character. She could be removed for S4 and I probably wouldn't notice. It feels odd when the group is hanging out and she's sorta just there.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:22
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Absolutely superb season - the best so far. GLOW has metamorphosed from a fun, gaudy show into what feels like a top tier drama. Bash and Debbie's plots this season were my favourite. Really strong stuff. Bobby and Sandy were great additions, too.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:53
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PotatoJudge posted:Ruth's fanny pack is killing me.
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Aug 12, 2019 16:05
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Someone found the clip of Bayley and Sasha they rotoscoped for the intro. Now I want to know where all the other clips came from! https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCir..._medium=ios_app
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Aug 12, 2019 16:11
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I'm certainly not complaining but there's been a pretty big increase in the amount of nudity, type of it and amount of the women who are comfortable going nude this season. Really feels like they're trying to up the ratings with it or something.
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Aug 14, 2019 11:31
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Pretty weird how they don’t address what Sheila even does in the show after she destroys her character. It’s good for her mental health and everything but it was literally her job to pretend to be a wolf.
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Aug 14, 2019 12:26
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Well, if the last episode is any indicator they don’t have the legal rights to those characters anymore, so she’d have to get a new gimmick anyway.
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Aug 14, 2019 12:45
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Re: Sheila I initially thought she was supposed to be a stand-in for otherkin or furries or something and early on the show leaned heavily towards everyone around her choosing to accept that this is who she is as a person, but then... she just kind of gets over it? I'm getting somewhat mixed messages from this whole subplot.
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Aug 14, 2019 13:44
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DryGoods posted:I'm happy with each character and feel like I have a good grasp on who and what they are. But Reggie feels like a background character. She could be removed for S4 and I probably wouldn't notice. I've watched every season and I honestly can't remember anything of note Reggie has done. Heck, I read the AV Club review of ep 4 and when they mentioned Reggie I was like 'Who?' Hopefully she gets to do something in S4. Episode 5 was a total hoot. 'And coming into the ring... a Nun. Because why the Hell not.' I'm also looking forward to them showing Tamme getting to be a manager next season. Her storyline kinda fizzled after E6 and Carmen bringing up managers. Maybe she can become Reggie's manager and finally give her some kind of memorable storyline.
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Aug 14, 2019 14:15
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Reggie seems to be having a lot of fun as a background character, so I hope they do actually give her something to do. I think (hope) her character switch was teasing a more interesting role in the future if they get another season. It is a bit weird, since her S1/S2 characterization (what little of it there was) mostly revolved around being angry and that seems to have gone out the window. Every time she appears in a scene this season she seems to be happy and enthusiastic about whatever she's doing.
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Aug 14, 2019 14:58
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Yolanda was just a completely unsympathetic bitch the whole season which made it really disgusting that in the end she's pushed as the one who was "right" about everything.
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Aug 15, 2019 01:29
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Ep 5: The character swaps are amazing, I can't choose my favorite. "I feel like I'm on acid."
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Aug 15, 2019 02:36
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Tehran 1979 posted:I'm certainly not complaining but there's been a pretty big increase in the amount of nudity, type of it and amount of the women who are comfortable going nude this season. Really feels like they're trying to up the ratings with it or something. it seems about on par with season 1, i think there was less in season 2
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Aug 15, 2019 07:49
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Hakkesshu posted:Re: Sheila i also did not quite get what they were going for UNLESS we are not really supposed to worry too much about sheila as a character in of herself and she exists more as a foil for ruth?
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Aug 19, 2019 21:53
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I'm watching the episode where they do "freaky Tuesday" and switch characters and this is loving hilarious. Bash progressively becoming more and more defeated as the show goes on was one of my favorite bits this show has done.
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Aug 20, 2019 01:38
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Tehran 1979 posted:Yolanda was just a completely unsympathetic bitch the whole season which made it really disgusting that in the end she's pushed as the one who was "right" about everything. It's a little understandable in the context of the times- she's actually living as an out lesbian in 1986, which is dangerous, and Arthie's acting like "maybe not, I don't wanna label myself" which, to Yolanda, seems like she's giving herself an out if she decides it was just an experiment. Like the same conversation in a modern setting would bring up questions of bi erasure and letting people just find who they are at their own pace, and I don't think Yolanda's 100% in the right, but I can understand her maybe having been with a few women who then decide "This was fun but no I'm not one of those". On a similar note I see why the issue of the fire isn't developed much further- the police aren't going to investigate a hate crime against a gay bar in '86 (hell it's a hard enough time getting them to do it now), so it's not like they can find out who did it or do much besides just, well, try to keep on. To be sure there's a lot of stuff left unresolved, but in that case it felt like "there's nowhere we can take this that isn't horribly depressing", and I think the wider issue of being gay in Reagan's America is one that the show is going to pick up going forward. Assuming Netflix does the right thing. Anyway, a good season. I've heard LaToya Ferguson suggest the dearth of wrestling may be because there was a bit of a delay between s2 and s3 and the actors weren't quite ready to get back to throwing each other around, so if Netflix renews this show I hope it's soon.
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Aug 23, 2019 05:53
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Henchman of Santa posted:Also Debbie’s bulimia never really came up again huh? Debbie took a pretty loving quick turnaround this season, without really any arc between. Like she started going on this downhill ride of loving every guy in the casino and hating not being with her son. Then her son moves to Vegas and she gets a boyfriend and is all of a sudden wanting to be the producer and more. There is just nothing in between her obviously going downhill and then running into Tex and her being on the top of the world. Although, I think there is probably a lot of instances like that in the show with it only being ten 30-40 minute episodes for a season.
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Aug 26, 2019 08:16
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Debbie took a pretty loving quick turnaround this season, without really any arc between. Like she started going on this downhill ride of loving every guy in the casino and hating not being with her son. Then her son moves to Vegas and she gets a boyfriend and is all of a sudden wanting to be the producer and more. there was a big rear end time jump where ruth spent 6 months taking her makeup off edit: also doing a christmas episode in the height of summer was A Choice
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Aug 26, 2019 13:02
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I liked that they managed to set up the Christmas play in less than a day, get all the costumes, make a new set, learn all the lines, the whole works.
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Aug 26, 2019 15:14
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Debbie took a pretty loving quick turnaround this season, without really any arc between. Like she started going on this downhill ride of loving every guy in the casino and hating not being with her son. Then her son moves to Vegas and she gets a boyfriend and is all of a sudden wanting to be the producer and more. I'm also not really sure why she decided to screw Tex over unless I didn't catch something. Surely she could have everything she would be getting via Bash if his bid was accepted, without all the drama?
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Aug 26, 2019 17:00
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