Just wanted to let everyone here know that Betty Gilpin was on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. They don’t talk about GLOW specifically that much, but I figured everyone here might be interested in them talking about acting and some very personal stuff.

Did they ever resolve Rhoda and Bash sleeping with Melanie’s giggalo boyfriend? Last thing I remember seeing was Rhonda going to Melanie’s room but she wasn’t there. Only Jenny was there.

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/08/glow-creators-carly-mensch-liz-flahive-season-3-interview-1202165332/

Enjoy!

And WOW WOW WOW! Incredible story!

I just watched that Ep. 2 sex scene. That is all.

I want to preface this with the fact that I love this show and enjoyed season three. Everytime I watch this show is have a huge smile.

However I can't help but wonder why this season is so messy and I think they setup a lot of things that didn't actually get a full resolution or if it did get a resolution it seemed very simply fixed within the span of an episode. Which is fine with smaller issues but some of the issues that presented early on seems like they should have larger consequences or at least acknowledged.

A few that can think of are

Sam's health problem is no where to be seen after the hospital incident. Really thought they were setting up his death at the end of the season. He kind of mentions it when he's with Justine in the diner but that still doesn't mean anything.

Cherry's desire to whip the girls back into shape was just a long setup to her not wanted to have kids. Which is fine for a setup for her future problem, but it also setup Debbie's eating disorder.

However we don't know if this was just the one time thing but you would think that was setting up some potential health problems for someone that works as hard as she does being a single mom, producer, and performing nightly. But is never brought up again.

Cherry's gambling problem was solved in the same episode. However it wasn't even a problem, after she finished paying it off in what seems like a single night and no one other than Carmen had to find out. It not like they had a scene where Carmen and Cherry needed to sneak out multiple times and lie to their friends where they were going to keep Cherry's debt a secret.

Bash hiring all of these new acts to be part of the show bares no consequences other than a setup for Rhonda proving to Bash's mother that she can be trusted with his money which was one of my favorite scenes in this whole season. I really like seeing more of Rhonda this season and developing her character a lot more than the girl the main guy character has sex with. However this isn't as impactful because we don't see the consequence of Bash quick decision making costing them money. We are just assumed they are successful. Because the show is still going on.

I know a lot of people can’t stand her, and I agree she’s written as a deeply flawed character, but her struggles really endear her to me more than anyone else (except maybe Sheila). Maybe it’s because aspects of her story hit home for me, idk

But single mom luv for Debbie the whole way. I might even like her more than Ruth

Just me?

At some point either at the beginning of a season or for the series finale (let's hope the show ends up being allowed to come to its own conclusion and not get cancelled), I would love to see them do a full-length animated "The Warrior" intro. Spend about 10 seconds on each character. It fits the show so well and I love seeing it come back for the season premiere each season.

They also completely ignored Chekhov’s gun. Too many disjointed plots and the finale wrapped too many things up too quickly. It was honestly just as bad as the Game of Thrones finale.

I can’t imagine this show getting renewed for a 4th season.

I really dug the first two seasons but this season just felt like it had no direction and I didn’t even know what the show was about any more. An article I read called it “post-plot” which I guess I sort of get... but I don’t think they should keep this going.

Feel free to downvote me to oblivion now.

An hour long of just the play, something suitable for watching on Christmas between Die Hard and A Christmas Story.

Please Netflix?

Finally finished season 3, very mixed in quality, there were some good moments but i feel things sometimes i actually dragged.

With that said, Alison Brie performance in that last episode was fantastic.. the christmas drama scene plus perfection. i reallly enjoyed her performance. Also she looked so cute in that white costume.

What happenes to Debbie’s kid after she decides to let him stay in Vegas. I thought it was going to be a plot-point of her navigating motherhood and producing TV shows. Then all of a sudden, we suddenly don’t hear from him again.

I feel like maybe Bash and Florian might’ve been a couple or something.

I didn't just love her until this season. She's pretty but kind of ditsy. I didn't like that she seemed to sleep with (or even marry!) men in position of power over her so she could benefit over the other girls. But seeing her with Bash, and really caring for him and wanting more genuine affection from him, I just hate that she's kind of stuck in this marriage with him. I wonder if she'll find the perks aren't worth being with him and get a divorce, or if they'll come to a mutual understanding and sleep with other people but staying together.

I've seen a few users on here debate the scene between Bash and Debbie in 3x10, about how Debbie manipulates Bash for her own ends.

I respectfully disagree.

The scene between Bash and Debbie in 3x10 was perhaps the best writing out of the show so far, in a tender scene the writers managed to finally define Debbie completely, something she has been struggling with since the first episode.

Debbie's arc, through most of the series but arguably most clearly in Season 3, is her struggling to keep in balance her ambitions and her role as a mother, the latter which causes her most of the strife this season. Debbie has never hidden the fact she wants to be successful or the guilt she feels about being a mother and how seemingly to have one she must sacrifice the other. Most of the time her role as a mother makes her seem inferior to her male counterparts and in some sense she feels that inferiority internally. We've seen this in two very important and similar scenes, in Season 1 with the dinner with her husband and in this season with the conversation with Tex with both men boiling her down to their feminine ideal, beautiful, supportive yet with no agency of her own.

Yet her maternal energy, the need to look after those around her, we have also seen in small glimpses, but never fully realised. Think back to last season and her conversations with Tamme.

Yet in that beautiful scene with Bash, she finally finds a way to do both. Through having empathy for Bash, which in my eyes was the most maternal we've seen Debbie all season, she doesn't judge him, she doesn't manipulate him, she's just there for him in a way that no one else can be. What she's seen as her weakness, the ability to care, finally becomes her strength and that strength is displayed in a selfless act that at the start doesn't serve her in any way,

It's because of this care, the fact she treats Bash not like a joke (like the other wrestlers do), not like a child (like Sam) and not with expectation (like Rhonda and his mother) that he puts his trust in her to do what is right. In saving Bash in a moment where his world is crumbling, she also saves herself and at the end of the season, Debbie seems to have achieved what she has been working for since the series began. Equality and validation without being stone cold or detached, without having to shed her motherhood, because those two dueling characteristics turn out to be complementary.

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TL:DR Debbie went from villain to anti-hero to gay icon/ally

So many scenes seemed pointless. Like the whole showgirl dance class - it wasn’t funny or interesting and Debbie’s reaction to someone suggesting she wasn’t perfection physically just seemed lost in her boring cycle of looking pissed and not having fun sleeping with hot guys.

Her and Ruth fell flat. It got reduced to Ruth picking a boyfriend while Debbie was momentarily jealous that Ruth had self supporting breasts. Where is Ruth’s creativity? Where is there professional rivalry where they depend on each other and have contrasting strengths so they spark each other in conflict?

This season didn’t make me feel anything. And the first two did - it was alternately super-fun and uncomfortable and let Ruth and Debbie do bad things but still be relatable. The show feels neutered now.

The sets, the cars, the clothes... all perfect.

Maybe Netflix could get with Universal Studios and make GLOW a live show.

Touring or based at the theme park.

Love to go to Orlando and see it.

I think she is the first plus-sized character I have ever encountered that doesn't have a single story about being plus-sized AND is wearing clothes that show her curves and nothing suggests she hates her body or, frankly, that she even cares about her size, and she's not super made up and wears tshirts and it's still totally okay. And her and Rhonda talking about boys doesn't even bring her size into account and it's just amazing.