GLOW Season 3 Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

2. The AWESOME Musical Choices

GLOW Season 3 Alison Brie
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GLOW has had a penchant for making shrewd, period-appropriate musical choices across its two prior seasons, as culminated with Starship's iconic "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" playing things out at the end of season two.

But season three might boast some of the show's sharpest and most eclectic uses of pop music yet.

An early sequence in which Joy Division's "Disorder" plays out during a moment of turmoil for Debbie is bracingly effective, while Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Cities in Dust" is brilliantly deployed during a stylish montage depicting the passage of time in the GLOW dressing room (pictured above).

Nothing, however, quite tops the inspired use of Kate Bush's "Running Up that Hill" for what might be the season's most hauntingly emotional scene.

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