A Woman’s Smile could spawn a Literally Unbelievable Tumblr just as easily as The Onion did. It’s billed as a podcast where co-hosts Patti Harrison and Lorelei Ramirez “talk about, well, everything! But especially the gentle and kind nature of a woman’s smile,” a summary that exemplifies the tone—but it could be taken…

Episode 1: “Viking Funeral” | Episode 2: “Candy Of The Year” | Episode 3: “Concerned Women Of America” | Episode 4: “Mother Of All Matches” | Episode 5: “Perverts Are People, Too” | Episode 6: “Work The Leg” | Episode 7: “Nothing Shattered” | Episode 8: “The Good Twin” | Episode 9: “Rosalie” | Episode 10: “Every…

“Every Potato Has A Receipt” is like a rush of adrenaline, and that appears to be GLOW’s standard when it comes to its season finales and the big shows G.L.O.W. puts on. Honestly, the finales are also the points in the show that really strain believability in terms of the proper wrestling of this time period…

Even with the future of G.L.O.W. hanging in the balance, “Rosalie” is somewhat of a cool down episode after the terrific—but often stressful—run of recent episodes this season. And just like in wrestling, sometimes a cool down is just what you need before the main event. So taking the back-to-school idea of GLOW …

Much like “Nothing Shattered” was a necessary GLOW episode for Ruth’s character and the entire G.L.O.W. family, “The Good Twin” is also a necessary episode—just for the simple fact that it lets us finally know what a full episode of this world’s G.L.O.W. looks like. And god, it looks every bit as amazing as one could…

Picking up where “Work The Leg” left off, “Nothing Shattered” quickly captures that feeling of not knowing what to do—as a worker, as part of the crew, as an audience member—when an actual injury happens. There’s the question of it’s real at first, and while professional wrestling has its own lingo for that; referees…

At first, “Work The Leg” looks like it might go the way of season one’s “Live Studio Audience,” with Ruth and Debbie’s lack of communication and eventual montage at least leading to a good performance until someone like Mark ruins it again. However, this season has worked hard to show that Debbie can be her own worst…

We’ve finally hit the true proof of G.L.O.W.’s popularity in the halfway mark of GLOW. Fans wait outside the venue with signs (“CAN I BE YOUR WELFARE KING?”), they cosplay, they send fan mail ranging from a genuine appreciation for the characters to dick pics (the ‘80s really weren’t so different). There is a fandom…

After the first three episodes of set-up—or “build,” since it’s wrestling—GLOW gives us the “Mother Of All Matches.” As I mentioned in “Candy Of The Year,” Tammé and Debbie are two characters who have some things in common, even if they’re still from different worlds. This episode highlights that completely, even…

While the viewing audience is conditioned to see the women of GLOW as underdogs, the show’s already making clear that their hard work is not going unnoticed. Sure, the previous episode had a problem with live audience investment, but a major point was that they had a live audience at all; people were even coming to…

While “Viking Funeral” was prep day, “Candy Of The Year” kicks things off with an in-progress match and a full house for G.L.O.W. While GLOW knows how to move from episode-to-episode with ease, the kinks still need to be worked out for G.L.O.W., like the crowd not caring about the in-ring action—partially the fault of…

GLOW gets into the bigger scope for season two fairly early on: It’s officially back to work for G.L.O.W., only the stakes are higher than just making one hopefully successful episode of television. “Viking Funeral” begins a 10-episode season which covers the show-within-the-show’s 20 weeks of tapings... and things…

As its plan to release 1,000 original movies and tv series by the end of 2018 reaches the halfway point, Netflix’s June offerings are, as they have been for a while now, heavy on the original content. There’s some good stuff in there, too: OG true-crime phenomenon The Staircase debuts new episodes on June 8, and…

Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where we take all the day’s smaller promos and teases, mash them into a thin, nutritious gruel, and feed it back to you through a tube. Today, we’ve got a starstruck Constance Wu, a bunch of wrestling maniacs, and an inappropriate use for a teapot, so let’s dive in.

Television provides so many units in which to appreciate the medium’s annual output. A series can leap to the forefront on the strengths of a single great season; if it’s running as part of the traditional broadcast calendar, those accolades might have two halves of separate seasons. Try as streaming services and…

The 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations are out, and the frontrunners will be familiar to anyone who’s watched premium cable, independent films, or just looked over the Golden Globes nominees this year. Big Little Lies and Three Billboards In Ebbing, Missouri lead their respective packs, with the HBO drama…

GLOW opens with a dynamic and evocative introduction to the world of women’s wrestling. Set to Scandal’s “The Warrior,” the title sequence uses rotoscoped, neon imagery to visualize the distinctly feminized spectacle that the Netflix series both captures and subverts over the course of its first season. I was already…

The first season of Netflix’s GLOW charted the formation of the eponymous all-female wrestling league in 1980s Los Angeles, and now Deadline reports that the streaming service is giving the Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling another chance to show off their skills in the ring. Beyond that, there’s not much in the way of…

It’s pretty impressive to look at where GLOW began and see it how it all turned into what we have in the season finale. Sam’s coked up vision for G.L.O.W. was obviously something special and shiny, but while we definitely get special and shiny here, it’s clearly not the same. Though, what we get here is something…

Despite the looming depression G.L.O.W. possibly never coming to fruition and everyone proving themselves the failures that society and their families believe them to be, “The Liberal Chokehold” manages to be a pretty fun episode of GLOW. There’s somewhat of a perceived lack of true conflict at this particular point,…