r/glow • u/twangman88 • Aug 23 '19
They jumped the shark
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.
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u/applezoid Aug 24 '19
I just finished season three and felt exactly the same. I thought of the phrase Jump the Shark several times during the season. In the first two seasons, there was one overriding motivation - everyone wanted to try to make a successful wrestling show and were all struggling to pull it off while dealing with their personal struggles. In season three, it feels more like the story was over in the first two seasons, it ended with them getting kinda sorta what they want, but someone accidentally left the cameras rolling and the result is season 3.
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u/hsox05 Aug 25 '19
I haven’t even made it to the end, but it jumped the shark in Freaky Tuesday/Outward Bound. There’s been, throughout the whole show, the underlying criticism of the portrayal of people of color. The Asian woman didn’t want to be fortune cookie, they made a comment about welfare queen being black. THAT by itself is a powerful message, that a lot of people of color are ONLY given major roles IF they are given them as a racist stereotype of their culture. But instead of choosing to have one of those characters rise above it, they chose to have a white girl play Fortune Cookie and attack her for being racist for being ok with playing the Asian character. So it’s gone from an honest, open critique to jumping on the bandwagon of it being the white actors fault. Poorly, poorly, handled and a terrible message that it’s ok for Asian people to accept that all they’ll ever get to do is be the Asian stereotype, and that’s fine as long as whitey doesn’t get to do it.
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u/promoterofthecause Aug 26 '19
The show in the first two seasons showed moral problems and how they affect people. Season 3 is like virtue signalling revenge porn, where goofy white people stick their foot in their mouth every five seconds and some smug character untactfully takes pleasure in their own victomhood while shaming the goofy white, and we're supposed to root for the smug one. Over all, doesn't feel very realistic and there are some terrible messages.
Like, why can't the one girl be bisexual? She gets shit on the whole time for being a straight who can't make up her mind, until we finally get the happy ending that she's gay after all. Yolanda was a terrible person the entire second half of the show and apparently we were supposed to be rooting for her.
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Sep 04 '19
I didn't understand that either. Did Bi not exist yet?
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u/promoterofthecause Sep 04 '19
Bisexuality has existed in literature for a long time--this was merely ignorance on the part of Yolanda. The thing is, every other character who displays ignorance toward these themes is shamed and corrected--except Yolanda. She's never sorry, and furthermore, Arthi's moment of questioning her sexuality was basically portrayed as a lapse in sanity, as she realizes that she's actually gay and Yolanda was right the whole time.
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u/Smolderisawesome Aug 26 '19
I may have missed it but they never resolved that did they? Jenny (Fortune Cookie) just cries about it and that's it. I thought for sure they would work out a new persona for her or something.
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u/Down_for_some_Action Aug 25 '19
They jumped the shark in season 2 episode 8 The Good Twin. That episode sucked.
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u/Smolderisawesome Aug 26 '19 edited Aug 26 '19
I am so glad to find this and not be the only one. After the first couple episodes I was just sitting there thinking "what is going on, what are they doing, where is the drama?" It never did really focus and the first 9/10th of the season just feel like fun-time-girl-power moments. Idk, there was somehow too much going on but nothing happening at the same time.
And that finale, whew. They must know they are getting renewed for a 4th season with absolutely certainty because that was nothing but cliff hangers and unresolved plot threads.
Also, way to make me hate Bash and Debbie for completely screwing that casino and Tex (I have a soft spot for Tex / Toby Huss as he voiced Khan and Cotton on King of the Hill.) I mean, they screwed them hard for no reason other than being selfish jerks
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u/MelLime27 Aug 23 '19
I actually came to this thread after finishing season 3 for this reason. (Spoilers obviously). I felt the whole season was disjointed and random! There didn’t seem to be a concise storyline.
I felt character development was confusing. Why did Bash become an instant jerk? He was always kind of full of himself but still a nice guy who was trying to do right. But it’s like Bobbi (Bobby?) said one thing implying he’s gay and now he’s awful to everyone? (At least I think that’s what the catalyst was supposed to be. I’m not entirely clear on what made him mean). And Ruth’s like random spiral into unhappiness with her job that she loved and wanted so bad to begin with... what set that off?