Their marriage is such a warm bright emotional spot in the show that I'm worried about what they're going to do to it in Season 2.

I think it's an area of overlap between all forms of popular entertainment. For people who came to GLOW from Community, there are some eerie parallels. Gillian Jacobs, the hot blonde girl was the clear love interest and intellectual sparring partner of the lead male for about a season. Then, the writers noticed that…

I think the way she subtly mirrors the woman, trying to learn her gestures and facial expressions as she gets called a prostitute over and over, puts it over the top for me. As long as the victim doesn't realize they're flopping and keeps pursuing their agenda, it never seems like cringe comedy to me.

"She gets mad at me."

I assumed on purpose. This show is awfully smart about little details like that.

And suddenly, the world needed a Grigori/Billy Offal spin-off.

I REALLY like D'Onofrio in the first Daredevil. I basically kept coming back for him.

As long as you don't have TV limitations on where the commercials have to go, you might as well enjoy the freedom.

Sure, and not just in wrestling. Half of Aasif Mandvi's IMDb page is "terrorist #2" or something. Therein lies the satire of Arthie/Beirut.

I think Carmen would have found out through the grapevine. Reggie could have been there for basically the same reason as Arthie or even Sheila. Just not a lot of parts for tall muscular women and the audition said "unconventional." I'm not sure Reggie's necessarily a "pro" athlete anyway. She could have won the…

Seriously, if I had a vagina, it would have swallowed itself.

Another thing I liked about the episode was Debbie working in the mirror, rapping in full makeup and it all being corny and fake. But they end the episode with Debbie, sweating, no makeup, asskicked, just got laid, fully committed, looking in the mirror and seeing her hero character for the first time.

In one way, Ruth's epiphany seems like the biggest anachronism in the series. I get that she has to go on a journey and find her wrestling persona, but in the mid-'80s, when they were making a list of heels, they would have STARTED with The Russian, and out of that group, Ruth's only possible competition for the role…

Holy shit! One of the River Phoenix clones has escaped the lab!

No diss intended, I just don't get out much. I was just wracking my brains for where I'd seen them before and, in my case, it was a scene in Werckmeister Harmonies.

Ah, thanks. Wikipedia tells me they're common in South Asia and Hungary of all disparate places. That explains why the only other time I've seen them has been a Bela Tarr movie.

I meant to ask. What are those things Aarthie picks up on her way out the door? Thermoses?

Well, that actually gets into something this show does a lot of that you start seeing in later episodes. There's the level where the characters adopt these stereotype wrestling personas, but then there's another weird level where the characters themselves are kind of stock characters and stereotypes. I'm sure it's…

They actually hit me with a completely new one last episode. On the drive to Malibu, they were playing something called "4-3-1" by a band called The Jetzons, who, as far as I can tell, weren't even a one-hit wonder. Deep cuts by the Go-Gos are one thing, but that's a whole other level. I'll assume Justine had it on…

It's like The Glow in The Last Dragon. You get it when you become a true wrestling master.