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Jun 20, 2017 · Netflix’s new wrestling comedy GLOW is about women making opportunities where none existed. The key to success, it tells us, is pretending that you don’t know that the patriarchy’s rules ...
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Like many workplace comedies, “GLOW” is about people who had hoped to end up somewhere else. Ruth (Alison Brie) is a serious-minded actress stuck in a rut of reading for, and failing to get,...
GLOW: Created by Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch. With Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Britt Baron, Sydelle Noel. A look at the personal and professional lives of a group of women who perform for a wrestling organization in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
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- 2017-06-23
- Comedy, Drama, Sport
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- Producers Didn’T Want Alison Brie in The Cast.
- Kia Stevens Is A Wrestler in Real Life.
- Brie Sees Ruth as “Sexless."
- Working with Women Bosses Made Betty Gilpin Reflect on Her Entire career.
- It Also Made Gilpin Fight Harder Against The Male Gaze.
- The Show Changed One Important Element to Home in on The Camaraderie.
- Brooke Hogan Made A Cameo.
- Working on Glow Is Like Boarding School.
- The Match Bash Recalls Seeing in Season 2 Is Real.
- The Series Will Be Coming Back For A Third season.
Like her character, Ruth, Alison Brie got rejected a lot before getting the role, enduring a grueling casting processfor producers and a casting director who wanted an unknown for the part. “I cried in my car after every audition,” she said. “I would sit in my care like Ruth and sob. And we were both listening to the same Ultimate ‘80s mix while [w...
The cast is full of actresses who all work with trainers to catch up on all the chiropractor-defying moves they have to do, but Kia Stevens (who plays Tammé “The Welfare Queen” Dawson) has been making those moves for decades. Wrestling under the name Awesome Kong and Amazing Kong, she’s a five-time Women’s Champion. Stevens has also wrestled in the...
One of the catalysts of the show’s plot is Ruth having an affair with her best friend Debbie’s (Betty Gilpin) husband (Rich Sommer), but the rest of the show is hardly romantic for Ruth, which is probably why Brie views the character as “sexless.” “I don’t think she thinks of herself as being very sexual,” Brie toldThe A.V. Club. “It’s a major diff...
GLOWis rare for having so many women in the cast and behind the camera, something that the actors have noted affected the shooting environment as a “protected, feminist bubble.” For Gilpin, it also raised some questions about herself. “Being on a set with female bosses [co-showrunners Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch], the level of comfort and bravery ...
Since Gilpin doesn’t have a stunt double, and she’s doing the wrestling moves herself, GLOW has forced her to reexamine how she views her body while acting. Specifically, she’s gotten a lot less self-conscious and unshackled her movements from fear of the male gaze. “The way we think about our bodies is completely changing,” Gilpin told The Huffing...
They fight in the ring, they fight outside of it, they lift each other up, they undercut each other. It’s all part of the show’s drama and grounded realness. It’s a family, and to develop that sensibility, GLOW borrowed from the conditions the real-life women trained under. That includes staying two-to-a-room at a shabby motel, but the show dropped...
Hulk Hogan's daughter made a brief appearance as a theater owner who rents her space to the ragtag production. She’s not nearly the only personfrom the wrestling world to make a cameo appearance, either.
Too often, shows have one spot in the cast for a woman. GLOW initially had 15. According to Gilpin, “I went to boarding school, and being on GLOWreminds me of that. When your call is 5:45 a.m., and there’s a group of 14 women all talking at once, it can be a little much, but it’s also the greatest gift. It’s constant happiness and support all day, ...
There’s a moment in season 2 where Bash (Chris Lowell) described a personal memory of watching a match between Stan Hansen and Bruno Sammartino where the former busted the latter’s neck. The match is real. So is the injury. At Madison Square Garden, on April 26, 1976, Sammartino was defending his world title against Hansen when Hansen failed to pro...
On August 20, 2018—more than two months after GLOW's second season dropped on Netflix—entertainment outlets began reporting that the series had officially been renewed by Netflix for a third season. The decision may not have been an easy one to make, however; as Variety reported: "Industry sources claim that the series is not among Netflix’s most w...
GLOW was praised by critics upon its release. On Rotten Tomatoes, season 1 has a 94% approval rating with an average score of 7.7/10 based on 108 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "With spot-on 1980s period detail, knockout writing, and a killer cast, GLOW shines brightly."
Jun 23, 2017 · Addictive, fun, and with substantive staying power, the Netflix, Alison Brie comedy "GLOW" is the best way to beat the 2017 heat.
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Alison Brie stars as Ruth Wilder, an out-of-work actress living in Los Angeles in the '80s. Wilder finds an unexpected chance at stardom: enter the glitter and spandex-laden world of women's ...
