'GLOW': The story behind the Weinstein-esque episode
(Editor's note: This article contains spoilers about the fifth episode in Season 2 of "GLOW.")
LOS ANGELES - Roughly around this time last year when "GLOW," the buzzworthy series about a ragtag group of female wrestlers premiered on Netflix, the show's writers and producers were already starting work on the sophomore season. The predominantly female team of scribes was determined to make the new story arc more grounded in the real world inhabited by the fictional characters.
The result is an episode that might feel ripped from today's headlines.
The comedy, set in the 1980s and inspired by the real, low-budget TV series "Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling," has themes of sexism and misogyny baked into its premise. But this season, it more distinctly tackles one of the country's current hot-button issues, sexual harassment.
In the fifth episode, "Perverts Are People, Too," actress-wrestler Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) attends a business meeting with a TV network chief, Tom Grant (Paul Fitzgerald), at a hotel restaurant in a bid to drum up more interest and support in the struggling wrestling show. Except, when she shows up, the host informs her that the meeting has
