![]() The writers have turned the state of their friendship as the central plotline through which a season runs. The core relationship in the show is that of hopeful actress Ruth Wilder, played by Alison Brie and her best friend successful soap actor Debbie Eagan, played by Betty Gilpin. All the women in the cast have to leave their home in LA for three months in Vegas. In this third season they took the setting of the original television show, Las Vegas, and turned it into an off-the-Strip casino show. Over three seasons they have explored many of the pressures women faced trying to have a career at that time. They got the idea that a series set in the 1980’s would have lots to say about women in the workplace even in an odd occupation like wrestling. Writers and creators of the series, Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch thought about basing a series around the real-life GLOW after seeing a documentary. GLOW stands for “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling”. One of them is the series GLOW on Netflix which just streamed its third season. The series which take advantage of this new way of telling stories in a creative way are few and far between. Too often a second season is just more of the same instead of doing something new with the story. ![]() There are so many streaming series I wish would have the smarts to stop after one season. ![]()
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