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Glow Perverts Are People, Too Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars * * * « Previous Next Photo: Erica Parise/Netflix After a season-and-a-half of holding in her anger at Ruth for sleeping with Mark, Debbie finally loses the moral high ground by scolding Ruth for turning down network head Tom Grant’s advances and blaming her for G.L.O.W. being exiled to 2 a.m. “The one time you keep your legs shut, we all get fucked” is clever writing, but it’s also pretty damn vicious, and Ruth would be well within her rights to regard Debbie’s words as a betrayal on par with bedding your best friend’s spouse. Ruth’s harrowing encounter with her bungalow-perv boss is the second prolonged, painful, uniquely female experience we’ve watched her endure, following her first-season abortion (a scene that, not shockingly, miffed some anti-abortion pundits ). It’s also an explicit dramatization of what Harvey Weinstein’s victims have recounted, down to making us confront the complicity of passive participants — in this case Glenn. It’s a drastic tonal shit from episode four, which was poignant at points but also broadly comedic. Here, it’s hard to say what’s more horrific: the dread of knowing what Ruth didn’t, seeing it play out to patterned form, watching Ruth’s face go ashen as Debbie admonishes her for being selfish and a prude, or seeing how — even as strong, in-control Zoya — the whole incident takes her completely out of character. These moments are ultimately why Alison Brie, no stranger to playing smart-but-subjugated women from her Mad Men days, is GLOW ’s lead. And she is every bit as believable bouncing from hopefulness to humiliation in “Perverts Are People, Too” as Debbie is callous and cold during their chat at the gym. Cannily, episode writer Rachel Shukert and director Claire Scanlon offer the flip side to this thorny issue. Back at the Glowtel pool, Melanie and Rhonda take uncomplicated delight in the … [Read more...] about Recap: Patriarch Games

Last modified on Mar 03, 2021 10:41 GMT Carla Challis Show your support on International Women's Day 2021 by shopping these brands that give back to women's charities for IWD. Shop the best International Women's Day products Fashion and beauty brands love to support a cause and for this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8, there’s a whole host of products you can buy that give back to women’s charities and organisations. What is the International Women's Day 2021 theme? International Women's Day 2021's theme is #ChooseToChallenge, encouraging us all to choose to challenge - challenging us to call out gender bias, inequality and to choose to celebrate women's achievements. The aim? To challenge things, to help create an equal world. If ever there was a time to justify spending some cash, it’s now – from lipsticks to T-shirts, we’ve rounded up the best brands supporting women’s causes for IWD 2021. SHOP: 18 best girl boss gifts for International Women's Day READ: 12 empowering female films to watch on International Women's Day Monica Vinader Deia hoops, £100, Monica Vinader SHOP NOW The demi-fine jewellery brand loved by Kate Middleton will donate 10% of sales on March 8 to Women for Women International. John Lewis AND/OR trainers, £75, John Lewis SHOP NOW John Lewis are supporting the #ChangeAGirlsLife campaign, and will donate £5 to Women Supporting Women at The Prince’s Trust for every item of AND/OR clothing and shoes sold until March 8. MORE: Our favourite inspirational - and stylish - women we love to celebrate Charlotte Tilbury Hot Lips 2 lipstick, £28, Charlotte Tilbury SHOP NOW Charlotte Tilbury has pledged £1 million to help women living in the world’s most dangerous places, from the sales of their Hot Lips 2 collection. Thanks to Charlotte Tilbury’s pledge, the charity is able to bring … [Read more...] about International Women’s Day 2021: 12 fashion and beauty brands that give back to women

Glow Mother of All Matches Season 2 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 5 stars * * * * * « Previous Next » Photo: Beth Dubber/Netflix In an earlier season-two GLOW episode, we discussed the nuances of being “buried” in pro wrestling. After this fourth installment, it might be time for a quick primer on heels and faces. Yes, they are parts of the body or — if you prefer — things you put on parts of your body. But in the squared circle (i.e., wrestling ring, not a geometric nonstarter), heels and faces are the twin poles of good and evil, lines increasingly blurred in both the sport and seemingly every facet of news and culture. Face is short for babyface, or fan favorite, the kind of guy or gal you can bring home to papa. A heel is, then, the fan favorite’s antagonist, not always objectively a villain but certainly a situational adversary. It’s not uncommon, within story line boundaries, for heels or faces to “turn,” or pull off a preplanned pivot toward either darkness or the light. The coup de grâce of such gamesmanship is the “double turn,” when the slightest manipulation of character turns our allegiance to a pair of rivals upside down almost spontaneously. (Perennial straight arrow Bret Hart and historical menace Steve Austin’s WrestleMania XIII switcheroo are the standard-bearers of this.) What goes down at the end of Welfare Queen and Liberty Belle’s title bout is nearly that, and definitely not what was scripted. But in wrestling as in life, you can’t control every variable, and Tammé and Debbie enter that match riding opposite ends of the emotional roller coaster. While visiting her son Ernest at Stanford — where he benefits from a Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship and commonly gets mistaken by white students for Tyler, who is also black but to whom Earnest otherwise bears scant resemblance — a fan recognizes Tammé as her alter ego. This is how Ernest discovers that his mom’s been masquerading on TV as … [Read more...] about Recap: Child Support

Glow Nothing Shattered Season 2 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars * * * * * « Previous Next Photo: Erica Parise/Netflix Sometimes you have to break a foot to fix a friendship. Or move a story forward. Or in this case, both. Not since the Korean Armistice Agreement has there been such an anticipated standing down as we witnessed between Debbie and Ruth in this season-best seventh episode. Things wisely picked up where the preceding half-hour left off, with Ruth writhing in pain after Debbie — tipsy and high on coke — inadvertently (we think) tore some part of her lower body into shreds. It was her foot, as it happens, and Debbie clarifies that she actually heard a pop and a tear (no snap or crackle, sadly). After untold hours in the ER, an attending doctor confirms that she suffered a clinically precise fracture and will be MIA for a couple months. The fate of Ruth’s in-ring abilities for G.L.O.W. ’s final four first-season episodes was never really a source of suspense. Zoya the Destroya’s Cold War with Liberty Belle was clearly on ice, and the world would simply have to wonder interminably whether Savanna Rose was safe in her Russian home. But Ruth’s detour to Valley General (in retrospect, Melanie was probably right preferring Cedars) creates the perfect static environment for writers Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch and Sascha Rothchild — along with director Sian Heder — to stage Ruth and Debbie’s ultimate confrontation while making room for the show’s entire ensemble to revolve around their drama. (It should be noted that former Nurse Jackie executive producers Flahive and Mensch are rather at home within a hospital’s walls.) Continuing GLOW ’s semi-regular tradition of musical numbers and montages, several lead and secondary characters take turns entertaining Ruth while she awaits X-rays, with Kimmy Gatewood and Rebekka Johnson getting yet another chance to show off their comedy-duo chops as misfits Stacey and … [Read more...] about Recap: Cast Irony

Glow Money’s in the Chase Season 1 Episode 10 Editor’s Rating 3 stars * * * Previous Next » Betty Gilpin as Debbie, Alison Brie as Ruth. Photo: Erica Parise/Netflix/Erica Parise/Netflix It wouldn’t have been that exceptional or surprising if Bash/Howard Productions’ pilot episode of GLOW culminated with a tag-team match. After all, WWF’s inaugural WrestleMania concluded with a two-on-two affair . But in the GLOW season finale, Ruth, Debbie, and Jenny have a bigger work (“work” being wrestling speak for scripted twist) in mind. Moments after Zoya and Fortune Cookie take out Edna and Ethel (via count-out, apparently?), Ruth’s Russian Destroya turns on her communist counterpart and claims GLOW’s first-ever championship crown. As the crowd boos and hisses, a homely looking housewife rises from her seat, tears off her matronly garb, and makes a beeline for the ring, conquering Zoya with a flying cross-body. She then humbly announces herself to the crowd as Liberty Belle, a “small-town girl trying to do the right thing.” However, Sam knew the best thing for business (to borrow real-life WWE COO Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s favorite phrase) was sending Welfare Queen in to upend the celebration and snatch Liberty’s title away, ensuring audiences would stay tuned for her chase to reclaim glory. It is also a clever way for Sam to sneak in his political agenda, as he snaps out of his funk just in time to recognize how GLOW can subvert norms in ways Mothers and Lovers never could. Good thing he didn’t join Sheila and Melanie outside the triplex earlier that night or he might have relapsed into depression at the very sight of lines forming to catch a midnight showing of Back to the Future . (It’s unclear why 1978’s Dawn of the Dead was also featured, as opposed to its 1985 successor, Day of the Dead .) Just when the car wash seemed degrading, the women literally paid potential moviegoers $10 a head to cross the … [Read more...] about Season-Finale Recap: Belle of the Brawl

Glow Concerned Women of America Season 2 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 4 stars * * * * « Previous Next » Photo: Erica Parise/Netflix There’s been plenty of TV punch lines over the years about women’s menstrual cycles syncing up, but how often do we hear about the highs and lows of their gastrointestinal comings and goings? (Okay, maybe Broad City is an exception.) In this third and, to this point, high-water mark episode of season two, GLOW goes there right out the gate. Melanie is bloated, not from cramps, but because she hasn’t pooped in an eon. But these women — who have bonded sufficiently enough to dub their shared lodging the Glowtel — aren’t about to let one of their sisters suffer in anatomical angst. (How great, by the way, that her stage name, Melrose, merely mashes up her first and surnames?) Enter Rhonda, who delivers some tummy pats and a cute little lullaby aimed at coaxing Melanie’s “poop baby” out in a flash for a big splash. Never before has real-life singer-songwriter Kate Nash, who plays Rhonda, put her pipes to such practical use. Rhonda’s not the only one looking out for her colleagues these days. Despite some initial moaning, Sam obliges Keith and visits Cherry’s Chambers and Gold trailer for a little pep talk. Turns out Cherry’s a mean stuntwoman but a terrible actress. And when the director starts pruning her lines and has the on-set stylist lather her curls with permanent relaxer, it’s more than she can bear. Sam is, naturally, as blunt as Keith is doting, and lays it on the line that a leading dramatic role ain’t her bag. A simple phone call to the network — massaged as it was with the suggestion to kill off Cherry’s character before she was even onscreen — and Cherry’s back under G.L.O.W. ’s bright lights. (Are you surprised? This is the auteur behind A Wolf Knocks Once , after all.) If only Ruth, who’s off Sam’s shit list, were fully back in Debbie’s good graces. This continues … [Read more...] about Recap: Bowel Trouble