GLOW Season 3 Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

4. The Mature & Thoughtful Storytelling

Even with its aforementioned scripting issues, the core of GLOW's third season is decidedly more perceptive, thoughtful and relevant than its glossy sheen might suggest.

The cast has to navigate some extremely tricky tonal shifts at times, venturing from dead seriousness to comedy at a moment's notice, and impressively, it never feels off or jarring.

More so than in the prior seasons, season three feels game to confront themes and issues of enormous social relevance, such as institutional sexism, racism and homophobia, while using these plots and discussions to further the humanity of the characters affected.

What GLOW's third season conveys better than anything else, however, is the difficulty with which people attempt to juggle their personal and professional lives, be it the friction between a demanding job and a romantic entanglement or simply keeping in touch with friends as life marches on.

It's all tremendously relatable, and in this respect the show has never felt more agonisingly human.