Go Glow hit Netflix yesterday and I have watched like half of it. It was great. The show was just a beautiful mess in it’s second season. Which sounds like faint praise or maybe an insult but it wasn’t. It’s more like I am sure some people will feel like it should have been more soundly structured or a little tighter but to me that is a part of the charm. The show is funny and touching and just kind of hard for me to describe. It’s not high drama but I care deeply about the characters. It skillfully addresses a lot of things, perhaps more often and most importantly woman trying to operate in a space dominated by men. But it’s more than anything that it just feels… right somehow. I don’t know. It’s a comedy. Mostly. Though most of my laughs are not belly laughs yet I adore every second of it. It makes me care about the characters more than a lot of dramas do. I think part of that is what TV does well when it does well. You can start with stock characters and flesh them out in a way very few other mediums can (serialized comics are about the only other thing I can think of that has this chance and even that is different). Like, to the degree I almost posted Kate Nash today because even scene where she is just in the background you know she is going to be doing something delightful and it really informs her character. But I am going with Betty Gilpin because I last year I watched the first season in two days and thus ran out of time to post everyone. And she deserves praise because she has a thankless role in a lot of ways. She isn’t a very likable character. She isn’t bad or mean she’s just almost… it’s hard to root for someone who is so obviously gifted by the luck of genetics. Maybe it’s different for other people but as annoying as I could see Ruth being, it’s hard for me to root for Debbie over her. And they aren’t enemies but they are antagonists more often than not. It’s rich and layered and it’s impressive how Gilpin pulls off someone who this season felt more and more like a villain at some points. Anyway, if you haven’t watched GLOW before you should check it out. Like, I like it and I am not a wrestling person. Maybe the best recommendation I can give is that I know multiple women who watched the show and it became one of their favorite shows ever. My friend Katherine gave it the highest praise and surprised me the most. She watched it because I praised it and I think watched it all in one night. Maybe two. But returned to tell me it is her favorite thing ever. And on paper there is nothing about a wrestling show that should be for her. So that’s high praise. Today I want to fuck Betty Gilpin.
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