GLOW Season 3 Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs
Downs...
3. Too Much Soap Opera, Not Enough Wrestling
Now in fairness, GLOW has always had a relatively shaky focus on the actual wrestling its cast of characters partakes in, but this is felt far more aggressively in season three, which features just a scattered few wrestling matches across its ten episodes.
This is a shame for wrestling fans given how entertaining these sequences have been in prior seasons, and much of the in-ring action appears to have instead been replaced with a slight excess of soap opera melodrama.
Though most of the season's drama is terrifically wrought, there are some subplots that feel overly perfunctory or just don't work.
There are hints of Debbie (Betty Gilpin) becoming bulimic, for instance, but this is quickly dropped as though the writers simply lost interest in it (similarly to Debbie dabbling with drugs last season).
Thankfully the balance is never enough to derail the otherwise quality storytelling on offer, but as we all know, sometimes less is more.