TV
GLOW second season
Have I mentioned how hard it is to write about the Netflix series GLOW? The show about a women’s wrestling series in the mid–1980s has an element that’s a show-within-a-show, where episodes of the show-within-a-show GLOW are produced to “air” on LA cable TV. There’s also the fact that GLOW is based on the real-life Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling program that really did air all over the country in syndication in the mid to late 1980s.
So when writing about GLOW I’ve had to remember to differentiate the Netflix GLOW from the show-within-a-show GLOW while also keeping in mind that the modern GLOW was based on the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Things got even harder in this latest second season of GLOW on Netflix, which was brilliant by the way, when one of the episodes was presented as a “real-life” episode of the show-within-a-show GLOW that “aired” with commercials and everything. While that episode entitled “The Good Twin” may have been my favorite single episode of anything that’s aired in 2018 so far, it certainly was the funnest, it would be easier to describe the plot of The Matrix to someone who knows nothing about the movie rather than describe “The Good Twin” and keep everything straight.
On one level “The Good Twin” is based on real episodes of the show Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
THEN “The Good Twin” is also an episode of a Netflix show starring all sorts of great actors like Alison Bree, Kate Nash and Betty Gilpin.
BUT THEN these actors are playing characters in GLOW from Ruth Wilder, Rhonda Richardson and Debbie Eagan.
BUT THEN EVEN DEEPER these characters on GLOW are also playing characters in the show-with-a-show GLOW from “Zoya the Destroya,” “Britannica” and “Liberty Bell.”
BUT THEN NOT TO GET CRAZY the show-with-a-show that “airs” on LA cable TV in 1986 is also called GLOW just like the Netflix show.
BUT THEN TO BRING IT ALL BACK AROUND the characters of GLOW are also kind’a sort’a based on the real-life characters from Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling including “Colonel Ninotchka,” “Godiva” and “Americana.”
Except these “real life” Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling characters are no more real than the ones from the Netflix GLOW since in the end they’re all fiction.
AAAAGGH! Someone get Philip K. Dick on the line, I’m gonna need help rebuilding my psyche trying to keep this all straight!
Anyways, the second season of the Netflix GLOW was wonderful and is a lot easier to watch that it is to write about.
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