User Reviews

If you are a fan of comedy you loved this episode. This was the kind of thing that gave us a break from the serious topics at hand and instead gave us a lot of rejected MadTV-esque skits jam packed into one episode.

Most of it worked, some of it didn't, but if you're someone who takes the show too seriously you probably didn't like it. If you can laugh at it and yourself you probably loved it, like I did.

I love it when great shows crosses the boundaries of it's setup and in some episodes just freaks out. Some examples are Buffy the Vampire slayer when in one episode it becomes a musical or when a Farscape episode is an animated cartoon. Glow just did the same here. Suddenly we have stepped out of the drama and we are instead treated to a GLOW show and how it could have looked when aired. This episode was a great way of showing the result on what Sam Silvia promised in the last episode "we will die on our own terms"

Very clever pastiche of 80's sitcom & music tropes. Best episode so far. Great comic relief. Laughed so hard. Think I got most of the refences. Brought me back to some great 80's chewing gum tv

With character moments from the likes of Sheila (telling Debbie that her parents are similar to her and Ruth, except they should divorce but never do) and Arthie (telling Sam that she was actually at med school but wanted to perform instead, while he talks about leaving his mom in a hospital to die instead of letting her go to an Italian beach instead), Ruth requesting Vicky, the Viking's return, and Bash actually paying Ruth's medical bills after guilt regarding not having health insurance (and suffering injury when the girls were told they needed to be more realistic in their wrestling) in the previous episode, "The Good Twin" takes a much different, surprising approach. "The Good Twin" is set up like an old episode, certain to be a favorite among those who grew up with the show when it aired back in its time. There are kits galore with the emphasis on wrestling now much less in favor of kitschy humor, campy theatrics, and sketch comedy hi-jinks. This is where the viewer realizes that there was a turning corner for G.L.O.W, the television show, as Sam and Bash decided, since the death slot working against them would probably result in their cancelation anyway, to abandon a mostly wrestling approach and embrace a sillier tone, changing course, throwing caution to the wind.

Mock commercials with Welfare Queen hawking faux goods, Zoya's Russian twin with a bum foot coming to America to help out Liberty Belle (allowing Ruth to remain in storyline even as she cannot perform in the ring), Liberty Belle gaining entry to the lair of Vicky the Viking with extra trouble from her henchwomen, Arthie and Jenny, in order to ultimately find the daughter lost, needing to defeat her adversary in order to secure a combination to a locker, Arthie momentarily fantasizing about being a dancer in white instead of a terrorist, Brittanica (Rhonda) agreeing to give over her "brain" so that her mannequin could be transformed into a hunk (Bash) through a deal with a voodoo priestess (JunkChain!), Melanie coordinating a music video (Gtv!) with all the GLOW girls behind her in a choreographed dance off, JunkChain's voodoo is used against Rhonda when the two meet in the ring over the use of a disc (put in a particular location by Brittanica) to "recover the brain" (with help from Justine), Rhonda's Brittanica and Bash's Mannequin-Turned-Hunk enjoying a brief exhilarating montage together before it is interrupted when the string around her finger eventually triggers her robot into informing her of the "loss of her brain", Belle interrupted while taking a shower by Zoya's twin to inform her of the plan to save her daughter, Sheila and the goat that wouldn't quit "making moves on her" (gotta keep its hoofs off her bosom, not listening to no and suffering the consequences), among other segments fill the running time of this episode. For those who want to be reminded of what they once watched so long ago, those behind the Netflix show really nail down the look, style, feel, and tone of G.L.O.W in its former glory. This should be a treat. Even Sam features in skits, more or less non-speaking, poking fun at himself! The wrestling matches are edited in such a way that you see where Sam and Bash (as well as their cast) determined a different idea and conceptual design, putting the lady performers less in jeopardy (although there are still high risk maneuvers, it is obvious that basic performance in the ring is far less violent), allowing them to mug for the camera, exaggerating and over the top without a care in the world. The cheeky *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* approach, including even a laugh track at times, and plenty of segues from one skit to another, but still reminding us of certain plots that conclude in the ring , allows the new incarnation of Sam's to have its own identity, completely unlike its male counterpart. And to conclude the episode, the mother of Justine (played by Annabella Sciorra!) realizes her daughter is on television after watching the very same show we did.

From the beginning to end was awesome Great acting. I loved Yoyo and Arthie's dance.

This episode was a full episode of what the viewers of the show would be viewing. I don't know if this episode was completely fictional or actually close to what they would have aired during the real G.L.O.W. But if it was what was aired back then, no wonder no one watched the show. This was awful! I know men's wrestling is very over the top, but why does women's wrestling have to look this ridiculous? It is embarrasing to watch real men's sports versus real women's sports. In the softball games the girls act like children; taunting the other team, throwing fits, crying on the field. It's no wonder men don't take women seriously when they think this is how they act.

I digress, if this was a true to life episode of the real G.L.O.W., I am embarrassed as a woman. If it wasn't, then why did the fictional show subject us to this horrible episode?

Another reviewer compared it to the Buffy musical. As a die hard Buffy fan, I am offended! I would have been happy to watch the episode if it hadn't been so awful, but it was.