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    In Season 3, <em>GLOW</em> Embraces Discomfort

    This year, the Netflix comedy questions whether finding closure is possible outside the wrestling ring.
    by Kelly Connolly Aug 15, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Ali Goldstein / Netflix

    This story contains spoilers for the entire third season of GLOW.

    GLOW is a feel-good series about feeling bad. Netflix’s dazzling comedy, which follows a women’s wrestling show, has the sheen of an uplifting story about “finding your people”—one in which outcasts forge a makeshift family as they come together to create something new. But GLOW’s bright spandex shell is wrapped around a bruising narrative. The first season began with an affair that drove a wedge between longtime friends Ruth (played by Alison Brie) and Debbie (Betty Gilpin), and their fraught efforts to heal that rift set the tone for the series. On GLOW, it was clear early on, female friendships break more easily than they come together.

    Season 3, released last week, is ’s least idealistic installment yet, and the

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