I'm starting to feel like a hack, but these shows have all been very entertaining. I had started watching GLOW a few months ago, but stopped because the episodes were longer, almost like they were made for an hour long episode, but not quite. Anyways, it popped up and I remembered I had about three or four more episodes to watch before I called it complete, so I watched all remaining episodes in the last two days.
The best part for me was watching Alison Brie who was in Community on NBC a couple years ago. Well, the best part was watching her boobs bouncing around in the first episode where she climbs on top of her best friend's husband for no good reason. This sets off a chain reaction in which her best friend finds out and then by happenstance, they end up working together on the wrestling pilot. The whole first season goes from taking a group of inexperienced girls and turning them into a real group of wrestlers. We see them learning each week, then the highs and lows of getting something new off the ground. The director is experienced but is only doing the wrestling show to get financing for his dream project of some time traveling show.
The girls all fit into stereotypes, such as Alison becomes a Soviet with a bad Russian accent, the Vietnamese is the sneaky Asian with the ninja swords, a big black lady gets termed the welfare mama. Some of these monikers are insulting, but they are meant in good clean fun to create a backstory to each character, and some have to be the bad guys.
In shows like these, there is always drama, and with this one, the director eventually finds out something he was not expecting from an overly eager fangirl who is one of the wrestlers. The producer, who is a real fan of all things related to wrestling, is cut off from his family's money, so he has to get creative to finance the last part and get them the ring and venue. Everything pretty much comes together for the final episode. All the girls get a turn wrestling and showing their moves on the final episode, of which they have gotten so much better from the first day.
Wrestling might be what brings them together, but they are doing so much more. We can see Wolf girl feel a sense of family when the girls insist on celebrating her birthday, making her feel like she belongs with them. Machu Pichu is actually a daughter of a real champion wrestler and for all her knowledge of wrestling, lacks the courage to go out on stage in front of an audience which the girls talk her into getting past her fears. Once the group is formed, even though they have to fight each other in the ring, they become a very supportive group for each other, it was a fun show.
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