The New Trailer For ‘Glow’ Season Three Is A Lycra Wonderland
Get ready for another serve of retro dramedy!
In an overstuffed and sometimes overly dour streaming landscape, Glow stands apart.
The throwback dramedy series never gets tied up in nostalgia (not like a certain little Spielberg/Amblin Entertainment pastiche we could mention) or tries to shoehorn in desperate stabs at relevancy. Instead, it’s happy to let the drama pour straight off its characters — giving them rich interior lives, and then setting them into gentle conflict with each other, sitting back as the comedic sparks begin to fly.
The first season, which debuted back in 2017, follows a young, wide-eyed starlet named Ruth Wilder whose quest for stardom leads her to be mixed up in the raucous world of women’s wrestling. Since then, Wilder, expertly played by Alison Brie, has transformed into something of an icon — an empowered female character who doesn’t have to resort to dull quips or superheroic storylines, and instead feels like an actual human being that you’d grab a martini with.
Alison Brie is PHENOMENAL as Ruth Wilder on #GLOW and I so wish she could have a received a nomination to go along with Betty Gilpin’s well deserved nomination. 💖💪🏼 pic.twitter.com/Qa4F8K8Qgs
— Alex 🦋⚔️ (@highspeedmerge) July 12, 2018
Well, if the trailer for the third season of Glow is anything to go off, looks like Wilder’s ascent up the wrestling ladder — not to mention the ladder of affection in our hearts — is not slowing down any time soon.
Although, be warned — looks like shit is finally getting ever so slightly real for her. After having finally achieved so much of the success and the happiness that she has so long searched for at the end of the second season, the cracks are beginning to appear in the plaster of her life.
“I have a boyfriend and somehow I still feel lost,” she intones gravely in the trailer, staring into the middle distance.
Watch the rest of the promo clip, which also heavily features everybody’s favourite scumbum Marc Maron playing everybody’s favourite scumbum Sam Sylvia, below.
Glow season three premieres in full on Netflix this coming August 9.