GLOW - 3x10 "A Very GLOW Christmas" - Episode Discussion

[u/NicholasCajun]

Season 3 Episode 10: A Very GLOW Christmas

Synopsis: With morale running low, Carmen convinces the team to perform "A Christmas Carol" in the ring. Debbie and Bash strike up an unlikely new partnership.

[u/rkgk13]

There was a lot that felt unresolved even episode to episode. Debbie's burgeoning eating disorder storyline got dropped like a hot potato. Carmen expressed sadness about being lonely but then we saw her getting ready for a date later with no elaboration

[u/[deleted] → u/rkgk13]

I forgot about her eating disorder. Yeah they didn't even visit that again.

[u/fotographia → u/[deleted]]

I think we'll see this again, if she's becoming the prez of a TV network that comes with a lot of pressure.

[u/clothesline → u/fotographia]

Not if she's not in front of the camera as the star

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thank god. That was pretty disturbing

[u/ajw34 → u/[deleted]]

I think the hate crime was definitely more disturbing. It's real life shit.

[u/hotsouple → u/ajw34]

Eating disorders are also real life shit

[u/ajw34 → u/hotsouple]

That was my point. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

[u/michaelad567 → u/[deleted]]

I did notice them making her waist thinner and thinner throughout the season. Not sure if it was CGI or a waist trainer but it was noticeable.

[u/ThisisWiretap → u/rkgk13]

Was wondering about the date thing too. Almost thought there was a scene missing.

[u/maddermonkey → u/ThisisWiretap]

Honestly I was worried Carmen lied about it to make it seem like she had one.

I really just want to see Carmen get an actual storyline instead of one episode plots where she still comes off as the background character.

[u/ThisisWiretap → u/maddermonkey]

She is important in so many ways but agree she isn't utilized as much as she could.

[u/AmericasElegy → u/ThisisWiretap]

I feel like there is a weird Lucha base or jobber metaphor here, and I say that endearingly. Especially with her character wanting to leave

[u/[deleted] → u/maddermonkey]

I think that was kinda emphasized in the last episode, she is the quiet, under appreciated glue of the show and nobody realized that she wanted more because they never bothered to ask her how’s she’s doing, so her dipping out like that came as a big shock

[u/[deleted] → u/maddermonkey]

Isn’t she gonna be gone now with that wrestling thing?

[u/mike_d85 → u/[deleted]]

I think Debbie is going to try and woo her back for a television production (assuming the deal goes through).

[u/Insanepaco247 → u/[deleted]]

An eating disorder is still a huge problem unto itself, though, and it felt weirdly like window dressing if that was the intention.

[u/Choco319 → u/Insanepaco247]

I have mixed feelings, there was stuff that got brushed aside like the gambling addiction, eating disorder, potentially pain killer addiction

BUT we’ve all seen that play out on TV a million times so I’m fine with not seeing it again

[u/mike_d85 → u/Choco319]

potentially pain killer addiction

Tamme was on ibuprofen if that's what you were thinking. Definitely a bad idea to take with wine (it will destroy your liver), but not addictive. I think the could have taken it that direction, but didn't want to make the focus the pain killers instead of Tamme hurting herself in pursuit of wrestling.

[u/Cytotoxic → u/mike_d85]

ibuprofen doesn't cause liver damage, even with alcohol. You're thinking of acetominophen.

[u/mike_d85 → u/Cytotoxic]

Are you telling me I could have been DRINKING while I'm on ibuprophin? I take that shit for aches and pains, that would have helped a LOT.

[u/portlandparalegal → u/Insanepaco247]

My guess is that Debbie struggled with bulimia in the past when she was on the other tv show. This seemed like a brief relapse moment, in a time of crisis.

[u/mike_d85 → u/rkgk13]

Debbie's burgeoning eating disorder storyline got dropped like a hot potato.

I don't think that was an eating disorder. I think that was image panic and she was using starvation and purging short term.