Review of GLOW

GLOW (2017–2019)
7/10
Season 1 great, Season 2 good, Season 3 awful
11 August 2019
I've been a big fan of GLOW - both the original wrestling series in the 80's, and the Netflix series. Just finished watching season 3, and was very disappointed. I realized that the funniest and most entertaining aspects of Netflix seasons 1 and 2 happened during the wrestling-related scenes, where the cast members were either in the ring or training. Season 3 was almost all about personal relationships, with very little wrestling. It went from a show that appealed to everybody in the first two seasons, to a "chick-flick" or "rom-com" type of series that was directed mostly at female viewers in season 3. (I'm a guy.)

Way too many sex scenes, which I consider to be what bad screenwriters do to fill time when they can't come up with entertaining ideas.

And even though I consider myself slightly liberal, I am getting sick of political correctness and social justice being crammed down my throat, which season 3 of GLOW decided to do.

That said, I hope the series gets renewed for a 4th season, that season 3 was an aberration, and GLOW returns to what it was doing for the first two seasons.
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