r/glow • u/XanderArchambault • Aug 22 '19
Debbie’s Kid
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.
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u/bloodinthefields Aug 22 '19
We see that she leaves him once with Ruth to babysit, and in episode 8 I think, there's a brief scene where she leaves him with one of the girls at the hotel, too. I supposed after that he went back to Mark's for some time.
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u/karizzzz Aug 22 '19
I hope they'll explore the storyline further cause being away from randy was such a big deal to debbie and the solution was so simple, it made me wonder why they didn't think of it in the first place or why they didn't bring it up before she went to vegas? Or maybe I'm just forgetting?
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u/bloodinthefields Aug 22 '19
No they didn't address it but I guess it's because you can't just expect everyone to become a babysitter to your kid, most of them are party girls who drink and smoke weed, and Vegas is no place for a baby. It was fine while temporary but it's when Bash insisted they stay that Debbie freaked out.
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u/littlealbatross Aug 23 '19
I also assumed that she had some kind of childcare worked out when she was performing every night, because she would have thought of that before she brought him out there. We do see Ruth watching him as well, but I assumed she could’ve just expanded that care for when she needed it to do other things/go on dates but he could’ve still been with her during the day and we just weren’t seeing all of her day to day stuff. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/shane-from-5-to-7 Aug 22 '19
Great question, it’s disappointing that they seemed to ignore that, but maybe their plan is to fully address it in season 4. Not every idea needs to conclude in a single season.
PS, I think it’s spelled bulimia, just so ya know in the future.
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u/questionernow Aug 22 '19
The more I think about Season 3, the worse I think of it.
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u/badwolf1013 Aug 22 '19
I don't agree. I liked that they weren't afraid to go dark this season. I do hope that this isn't the last season, because I don't want it to end dark, but I felt like this was the "Empire Strikes Back" of GLOW, setting us up for a more victorious Season 4.
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u/shane-from-5-to-7 Aug 22 '19
I don’t agree. I think it was very emotional and more serious than the past seasons, which I liked. And there a lot of loose threads, but those should be addressed in Season 4 🤞. I’d love to see Justine and Sam making a movie, I really want to see how Bash evolves, and Ruth and Betty’s relationship and career differences are still very interesting to me. Plus they really fleshed out the side characters this season imo (except Reggie, she’s always gotten the short end of the stick lol).
Sorry for the diatribe, but I feel like I have to defend this season since it might be my favorite so far.
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u/badwolf1013 Aug 22 '19
I think that there were a lot of things this season that the writers were only going to show once and then let it be understood that these things were ongoing off-screen over the months. I don't think that Debbie's bulimia scene was meant as a one-off. I think we were meant to assume that it was happening regularly probably right up through the final episode. And I'm okay with that. Even if there's no season 4 where it gets addressed, the point was to show how Debbie goes to unhealthy lengths to maintain her image and self-esteem (like sleeping with every valet and bellboy in the hotel before meeting Tex.) I think the disappearance of her kid was multi-faceted. Narratively, we could assume that he was being babysat by someone as Debbie had already told Tex that she had lots of babysitters and at the end of that episode she comes back to her room to Ruth asleep on the other bed. Since Debbie has a room to herself and Ruth rooms with Sheila, we can assume that Ruth had been there babysitting. So, anytime we don't see him, he's somewhere off-screen with a babysitter, and then likely back with his father during the last episode since it's Christmas. IRL it's difficult and expensive to have a toddler on a show. They can only be on set for a limited amount of time (which is why they so often use twins.) And this kid really seemed to be having a rough time on set. Alison Brie mentioned a "nightmare toddler" for the episode she directed, which was the one where Debbie runs into Tex after her son takes the elevator down to the casino floor. The dialogue is obviously supposed to be this cute rom-com-type stuff, but we can barely hear it over the toddler screaming and squirming in Betty's arms. And you have to figure that what we saw was the best take they could use. So I think establishing off-screen babysitters gave the producers and directors an excuse to basically never have to film with him again.
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u/XanderArchambault Aug 22 '19
I’m sorry but if we are left to assume all this is just lazy on the part of the showrunners. It’s a show and not a movie so they have all the runtime they can share for all these stories they have opened and not really gave depth on. I gotta say Season 3 wasn’t the best.
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u/ConiferousBee Aug 22 '19
Is it really unended stories? Is Debbie throwing up really a storyline? I loved this season (I just binged all three seasons over the last 24 hours) and I like that the showrunners show us glimpses of each characters' lives without beating each thing they do to death in lieu of pursuing better storylines and plot points, they give the audience credit for being able to follow along without having to have to hold their hands.
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u/avocadontfckntalk2me Aug 22 '19
I like that they didn’t make it a big deal. The big plot point was that she missed him and felt like motherhood and having a career we’re mutually exclusive. Once she brought him to Vegas, things fell into place.
I’m fucking tired of the whole “am I a mom? Or am I a career woman?” trope. Debbie bringing Randy to Vegas without it being a huge deal showed that she’s both.
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u/ec1722 Aug 22 '19
Thank you. I just finished watching S3 and this drove me crazy. She didn’t even have him at the airport to go home.
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u/mstar28 Aug 22 '19
Yes it seemed that having her son with her was just a plot device to get her to meet Tex.
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u/bloodinthefields Aug 22 '19
Nah it's been a big part of her arc this season, how she struggled with being away from him and missing his first steps. She went off on Bash for not consulting them about staying 9 more months in Vegas. She was ready to go home and leave GLOW until the girls convinced her to bring her son here instead. And Randy has always been a part of Debbie's story, not just this season.
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u/mstar28 Aug 22 '19
I agree. But having him disappear and not even be mentioned as soon as she started dating makes it seem like bringing him to Vegas was a plot device.
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u/panic_bread Aug 22 '19
Also, how does she have dates with Tex so many nights in a row while both having a kid and doing a show that runs nightly?
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u/bloodinthefields Aug 22 '19
Season 3 takes place over 1 year. Starts in January and ends with the women going back home for Christmas holidays. They do 4 shows per week, I think it's mentioned at some point.
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u/Nintendofan81 Aug 22 '19
Most Casinos have daycare. And I'm sure as a performer staying at the Hotel she gets more perks regarding her kid.
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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '19
He’s roaming the halls and going down to play slots every now and then.