Netflix is killing it right now as far as original series go, and it's expanding its reach even more with GLOW, a new show about—wait for it—women's wrestling in the 1980s.
Alison Brie stars as Ruth, a struggling actress who's over the reductive, two-dimensional roles she's auditioning for. So she shakes things up by attending an open cattle call for "unconventional women." The project, she finds out, is called GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. But this isn't a movie about female wrestlers. It's an actual women's wrestling league that requires her to learn combat, to body-slam, and wear lots (and lots) of spandex.
GLOW is packaged as a quirky comedy—and it definitely looks funny—but the central theme surrounds the slim pickings for women in Hollywood, which is more relevant than ever.
Created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, GLOW features an almost all-female cast, and Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie) is a trailer standout as Debbie Eagan, a hilariously melodramatic ex–soap opera star who serves as Ruth's antagonist.
Obviously, the girl-on-girl fighting depicted on GLOW comes with a heavy wink. If anything, the male characters serve as the true foils. Case in point: When a dude calls one of the wrestlers a "big Black girl," her pals immediately jump in her corner.
All 10 episodes of GLOW hit Netflix on June 23. Hopefully, the trailer, which we included below, will tide you over until then.
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