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    'GLOW' Co-Creators Explain Why Wrestling Is Like Greek Theater

    The Netflix show follows a 1980s women's wrestling circuit. Showrunner Carly Mensch says you can see wrestling as "super reductive" or see it as "storytelling at its most potently inclusive and epic."
    by Kelly McEvers Jul 07, 2017 2 minutes
    Alison Brie (left) and Betty Gilpin star in <em>GLOW</em>, <em></em>a new Netflix show about a women's wrestling league in the 1980s.

    If you ask Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, wrestling was just better in the 1980s: They say it was less slick, less violent, more fun — even silly. There were easier entry points, too.

    "Liz and I will watch a wrestling match now, and we'll actually make it 15 minutes in and still have no idea who the good guy or the bad guy is,"

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