{"id":46644,"date":"2019-08-18T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46644"},"modified":"2020-08-11T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T20:23:41","slug":"glow-season-3-the-setup-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46644","title":{"rendered":"GLOW, season 3: the setup season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just finished watching GLOW<\/em>, season 3 on Netflix.\u00a0 In a nutshell, it was an okay season that dealt with some heavy-handed topics, but feels like it\u2019s straying away from everything that made GLOW, GLOW, and that everything in the season was mostly to set up for future seasons of the show.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some degree, it\u2019s smart that they\u2019ve sowed the seeds necessary in order for them to have future seasons of GLOW, but at the same time, they kind of sacrificed a lot of the present in order to prepare for a future that doesn\u2019t exist yet, as (to my knowledge<\/em>) there is no future season(s) of GLOW yet ordered.\u00a0 If I\u2019m a betting man, I bet there will be, but frankly in this day and age, it\u2019s hard to ever be certain whenever it comes to the futures of any show, because every show is one actor scandal, writing controversy or some executive going bonkers from getting killed off, regardless of if they\u2019re already nicely wrapped up, or if the plot is as open-ended as a Choose Your Own Adventure<\/em> book.<\/span><\/p>\n

But still, I had a really hard time getting into this season as I did the previous two, because I think that the plot bounced around a little too much throughout the season.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s good to shine the spotlight on all of the girls in various times, but when the day is over, the show really is generally centralized around Sam, Ruth and Debbie.\u00a0 And as potentially interesting the lives of Bash, Rhonda, Carmen, Cherry and the others are, ten episodes just isn\u2019t really enough time to get into everyone, and ultimately, I felt as if the show couldn\u2019t really decide very well which plots to stick with, and was just kind of all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n

And for a show that\u2019s technically about women wrestlers, the show strayed pretty far from the wrestling itself and touched on some pretty heavy handed topics, such as homophobia, racial\/religious awareness as well as eating disorders.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying that such things shouldn\u2019t be touched on and fleshed out, because they are most definitely very important things in today\u2019s society, but again, going back to the fact that there were just ten episodes, I don\u2019t think there was simply enough time to really get in on all of them, as well as try and be remotely cohesive to the rest of the show.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, maybe it was just not being in the right frame of mind to watch, but I did think it got better as it went on.\u00a0 It was a little slow starting, but did pick up a little momentum along the way.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the best season of the three, and I still maintain that it felt like they were spending more time planting seeds for the future rather than being in the present, it was still alright, and as I often say when it comes to Alison Brie, it\u2019s very hard to not fall a little bit of in love with her, when she\u2019s on her game, and thankfully the show made sure to give her enough screen time to get in her shining moments.<\/span><\/p>\n

And hopefully for the writers of S3, there will be a season 4 announced soon, so that the seeds they\u2019ve planted actually have future seasons to grow into.\u00a0 And hopefully then, they won\u2019t spend so much time re-preparing for the future that they won\u2019t be able to shine in the present.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just finished watching GLOW, season 3 on Netflix.\u00a0 In a nutshell, it was an okay season that dealt with some heavy-handed topics, but feels like it\u2019s straying away from everything that made GLOW, GLOW, and that everything in the season was mostly to set up for future seasons of the show. In some degree, it\u2019s … Continue reading GLOW, season 3: the setup season<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,69,54],"class_list":["post-46644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-television","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46646,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46644\/revisions\/46646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}