<em>GLOW</em> Goes Post-plot
The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are bored. The scrappy professional women’s wrestling troupe has moved to Las Vegas for a three-month residency at the Fan-Tan Hotel and Casino, and the wear of repeating things is starting to show. “I don’t know how you can do the same show night after night,” Big Kurt Jackson (played by Carlos Colón Jr.) tells his sister, Carmen (Britney Young). “There’s no story lines, no drama.”
You could say the same thing about Season 3 of , which arrives tomorrow on Netflix and seems to be experimenting with a model,transplanted into a city of windowless casino floors, bottomless well-liquor pours, and contagious desperation. Instead, the series seems stuck. Season 3 is a patchwork of meaningful interludes, rote character check-ins, and errant plot threads that quickly unravel. Even Vegas itself is an afterthought: There are no skyline B-roll shots or location scenes at all, which means the whole season feels like it could be playing out in a gilded Topeka Courtyard by Marriott.
