The GLOW Christmas special was more of an informative for younger views not familiar with a Christmas Carol than funny, but the final scene gave us the big Debbie and Ruth scene were accustomed to once a year from this show. A good cliffhanger even though we know if the show gets renewed they'll find a way to bring the gang back together for the new show anyway.
4 Reviews
One of the best this season
taylorswiftfan-197982 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
With everything coming to a close, the Glow team finds a way to celebrate Christmas before parting ways indefinitely. This episode provides a lot of funny moments within the wrestling match as well as some deeply emotional scenes with Bash realizing who he is, Debbie putting her heart on the line and sacrificing her love life once more, and Ruth still reeling from Sam and Justines rejection this episode packs a punch. The cliffhanger left us with nothing but questions and a tinge of despair.
COVID would have just postponed GLOW if it weren't for Season 3
TheFearmakers25 October 2020
Sneaky Pete had the same Third Season problem of basically throwing out the entire point/plot/purpose of the show to center on the navel-gazing of the characters.
This episode is like last season's second-to-last episode about the Soviet twin sisters, which was really NOT an episode (more of a show within a show within a show), and failed to work as a binge-forward on a binge series: basically, the FLY of Glow and this finale is just plain limp and bad, centering on another show within a show within... well you get the idea.
BTW, Covid is NOT the reason it got cancelled. Like anything else it would have simply gotten postponed. Glow peaked last season, and while this season has great moments, and as a diehard fan I enjoyed many scenes, it was just all over the place. They needed more than a fanboy/girl audience to consider.
Remember in Jurassic Park when Jeff Goldblum asked Richard Attenborough, "Uh, you do plan on having dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right?" Well the same can be asked about this show about wrestling. Even when they get back in the ring... instead of wrestling, they do A Christmas Carol. UGH!!!!
Now consider the people within the fictional show's setting in Las Vegas paying GOOD MONEY to see a wrestling show, and getting a stage play... Those people are never considered... The only people considered are such super-fans of the series that, for some reason, want to see the characters doing a classic stage play instead of wrestling... but the Vegas crowd would be asking for their money back.
PS I have to say, Toby Huss as Tex is a great actor, very subtle, has strength within his mellow front... it's too bad that he became just another male chauvinist pig on this series (and this happens very soon into this episode). He just seemed too good for that... or maybe that's the performance before his true nature was revealed. He's great...
Also, the agenda that another reviewer mentioned... while it's a nice thought to bring homophobia in the 80's into any show, it simply overwhelmed THIS particular show that, for two seasons, was hardly political (hell, even Bash's republican mother was funny)...
Which is the problem with this season... It was a season that simply didn't consider the series, only the fans that THEY THOUGHT needed these characters to move something forward OTHER than the plot-line...
Also, and this is the last chance to say this, but Sam's daughter that quickly selling a screenplay and being able to choose a director and sit in on production meetings and basically co-running the studio is just simply insane. Albert Brooks equated being a scriptwriter to a eunuch at an orgy. And that was AFTER he was already famous... but a girl fresh out of high school becomes a... oh, anyhow, everyone downvotes any negative opinions so what's the use?
This episode is like last season's second-to-last episode about the Soviet twin sisters, which was really NOT an episode (more of a show within a show within a show), and failed to work as a binge-forward on a binge series: basically, the FLY of Glow and this finale is just plain limp and bad, centering on another show within a show within... well you get the idea.
BTW, Covid is NOT the reason it got cancelled. Like anything else it would have simply gotten postponed. Glow peaked last season, and while this season has great moments, and as a diehard fan I enjoyed many scenes, it was just all over the place. They needed more than a fanboy/girl audience to consider.
Remember in Jurassic Park when Jeff Goldblum asked Richard Attenborough, "Uh, you do plan on having dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right?" Well the same can be asked about this show about wrestling. Even when they get back in the ring... instead of wrestling, they do A Christmas Carol. UGH!!!!
Now consider the people within the fictional show's setting in Las Vegas paying GOOD MONEY to see a wrestling show, and getting a stage play... Those people are never considered... The only people considered are such super-fans of the series that, for some reason, want to see the characters doing a classic stage play instead of wrestling... but the Vegas crowd would be asking for their money back.
PS I have to say, Toby Huss as Tex is a great actor, very subtle, has strength within his mellow front... it's too bad that he became just another male chauvinist pig on this series (and this happens very soon into this episode). He just seemed too good for that... or maybe that's the performance before his true nature was revealed. He's great...
Also, the agenda that another reviewer mentioned... while it's a nice thought to bring homophobia in the 80's into any show, it simply overwhelmed THIS particular show that, for two seasons, was hardly political (hell, even Bash's republican mother was funny)...
Which is the problem with this season... It was a season that simply didn't consider the series, only the fans that THEY THOUGHT needed these characters to move something forward OTHER than the plot-line...
Also, and this is the last chance to say this, but Sam's daughter that quickly selling a screenplay and being able to choose a director and sit in on production meetings and basically co-running the studio is just simply insane. Albert Brooks equated being a scriptwriter to a eunuch at an orgy. And that was AFTER he was already famous... but a girl fresh out of high school becomes a... oh, anyhow, everyone downvotes any negative opinions so what's the use?
Another unbearable episode
hugoventura092 March 2020
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