GLOW Review: 7 Ups And 2 Downs

1. Some Of The Characters Are Pretty Thin

As previously mentioned, the series has a massive - and talented - ensemble. With Brie, Gilpin, and Maron in the three main roles, there's also Chris Lowell as Bash, the producer, and 11 other women competing for time in the ring and outside of it.

This means we meet a lot of fun, interesting characters, who are well-played by their respective actors, but it does also mean that - especially in a half-hour series, rather than an hourlong one like Orange is the New Black - there's not enough time to really get to know them.

Melrose, for example, is a party girl, but we know little else about her. The show devotes a decent amount of time to Sheila the She-Wolf's identity (she's a wolf even before GLOW), yet we don't really learn much else about that particularly intriguing element.

The personas the characters take on is intended to play on the various stereotypes - the Asian, the Brit, the athlete, the party girl and so on - and exaggerates them before, supposedly, deconstructing them. It's an admirable aim, and the characters are entertaining, but in a few too many cases they don't go far beyond that typing, something future seasons (because there surely has to be more) would have to rectify.

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