Because if you work hard and prove yourself, you'll get a woman of your own one day.

Well, in the show they specifically talk about "the fighting in Florida" - the implication being that Gilead actively holds parts of the former US but the rest is contested territory.

I first read the book in undergrad at a Baptist college.

Given the scarcity of fresh food and the lack of cars on the road, it's possible that Gilead IS a pariah state, complete with economic sanctions from Europe, etc.

people clearly did TRY to escape to Canada, that's what June & family were up to at the beginning of the show.

Every single one of those balaclava wearing storm trooper dudes in the background got started on 4chan/Reddit.

If it's anything like what your Fox News Uncles are currently bragging about, the countrysides TOOK the cities.

Here way way late but when I read it in the late 90s, I always pictured Tammy Faye Bakker or Jan Crouch (sp? The big haired woman on TBN)

To be completely accurate, women's wrestling DID take off a few years later…

GLOW had "Tara and Scarlett" as their "Suthuhn Belles" gimmick, IIRC.

That part is semi-accurate. The real GLOW was created by Matt Cimber, who directed a bunch of 70s grindhouse sexploitation/blaxploitation stuff and David McLane, who worked as a ring announcer in Indianapolis for Dick the Bruiser before setting out on his first of three attempts to make a women's wrestling promotion…

The term is "money mark"

Or people like me, who remember the original and fired this up only to have this moment of "whoa, where's Mount Fiji? Where's Chainsaw and Spike? What is this shit!"

GLOW is the brand, and I don't know if it would have gotten off the ground without the license.

I'm having to adjust to this show being what it is contra what I wanted it to be.

Colonel Ninotchka, you capitalist dog!

It's about the real GLOW as much as OINTB is about what actually goes on in prison.

I… I didn't really feel it.

Affable nerdy type, no powers, goggles, ovoid flying machine, inherited the mantle from an earlier hero…

Genesis, for my money, had a couple of the all-time great tunes - Streets of Rage II is pretty much the apex of "what you can do with a video game console", while ToeJam & Earl had a completely memorable and utterly distinct sonic landscape.