Credit: GLOW season 2 – Erica Parise – Netflix
Netflix’s GLOW is back for round 2 and we have recaps for all ten episodes right here!
Netflix released the second season of GLOW sometime in the middle of the night, and I’m going to recap every episode for you.
But before I do, I’ll give you a crash course of Season 1, the key players, and where we left our gorgeous ladies of wrestling at the end of last year.
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Premise
GLOW is loosely based on the original 1980s women’s professional wrestling series of the same name. Only the Netflix series is scripted with fictitious characters.
Between the classic ‘80s fashion, a soundtrack filled with nostalgia, and brilliant comedic performances, both critics and fans fell in love with the 30-minute comedy.
Main cast
Alison Brie plays Ruth Wilder, a struggling actress who is desperate for work and auditions for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW). At first, they dismiss her, but her tenacity and determination lead her to land a role. Her GLOW character is “Zoya the Destroya.”
Marc Maron plays Sam Sylvia, GLOW’s director. He previously directed B-movies and now works on creating the storyline for each GLOW character.
Betty Gilpin plays Debbie Eagan, the only working actress in the bunch and Ruth’s best friend. She takes a break from acting to have a baby. But she decides to join GLOW after she finds out Ruth slept with her husband. Her character is “Liberty Belle.”
Sydelle Noel is Chery Bang, and she trains the girls, as well as performs as Junkchain. Her and Carmen “Machu Picchu” Wade, played by Britney Young, are the only two ladies with any wrestling experience.
Chris Lowell plays millionaire playboy Sebastian “Bash” Howard, who produces GLOW
Supporting cast
• Jackie Tohn as Melanie “Melrose” Rosen
• Kate Nash as Rhonda “Britannica” Richardson
• Britt Baron as Justine Biagi, also Sam’s daughter
• Kimmy Gatewood as Stacey “Ethel Rosenblatt” Beswick
• Rebekka Johnson as Dawn “Edna Rosenblatt” Rivecca
• Sunita Mani as Arthie “Beirut the Mad Bomber” Premkumar
• Kia Stevens as Tammé “The Welfare Queen” Dawson
• Gayle Rankin as Sheila “the She Wolf”
• Ellen Wong as Jenny “Fortune Cookie” Chey
• Marianna Palka as Reggie “Vicky the Viking” Walsh
• Shakira Barrera as Yolanda
Where we left the ladies
With a rough beginning of their opening night, a tag team match between Ruth and Jenny and Dawn and Stacey salvage the production from absolute disaster. Ruth’s Zoya ends up double-crossing Jenny’s Fortune Cookie for the GLOW crown.
Suddenly, Betty, who decided to leave the show earlier in the episode, stands up a Liberty Belle from the audience and challenges Zoya for the crown. Liberty Belle defeats Zoya. But then Tammé steals the crown from Liberty, thus keeping the storyline going.
Are you ready for some wrestling, fun, and ‘80s music? I know that I am!
SPOILERS AHEAD!!
Credit: GLOW season 2 – Erica Parise – Netflix
Episode 1: Viking Funeral
The ladies return after a brief break to begin shooting a 20-week series.
In the cold opening, the women’s camaraderie and their comfort being around each other are clear. They’ve become friends, sisters even, after creating something from scratch.
This first episode sets the stage for what’s to come this season. In a post-#MeToo world today, GLOW can’t be stuck in the past, even though it takes place in the past.
So, there are many times throughout the pilot you see the women “knocked down a peg” or treated inferior.
When Debbie picks up her dry cleaning, the cashier falsely combines hers and her soon-to-be ex-husband’s dry cleaning. When Debbie makes it clear they’re not together anymore, the woman judges her for keeping his last name – as if there is a rulebook.
Ruth comes into the episode optimistic. After all, she pretty much directed the pilot, and she feels comfortable enough with Sam that she brings him ideas. She feels like his equal and even refers to herself as Alma to his Hitch (Alfred Hitchcock and his wife). She will support him behind the scenes.
When the girls react abrasively to Cherry’s replacement, Yolanda, Ruth rally’s the girls to make a title sequence. She even references the Mary Tyler Moore theme song. I love that they chose that particular theme to reference because MTM is the epitome of girl power. Every little girl should watch that show when they come of age as a rite of passage.
Ruth is a rock star director while they shoot the title sequence at the mall. She doesn’t want credit, because she genuinely believes she’s helping boost morale and helping the show be successful.
When the creepy cameraman tries to get Ruth to come back to his place to review the tapes, Debbie saves her by offering a ride. Even with Debbie being mad at her, she still recognizes Ruth couldn’t speak up for herself and helped a sister out!
The whole thing blows up in Ruth’s face the next day when Sam berates the girls, especially Ruth. When Reggie stands up for Ruth, saying she’s really the one who directed the pilot, Sam fires her. It’s hard to watch and understand a time where women were silenced so abruptly.
Sam tells Ruth, “You’re all replaceable, even you Ruth.”
In contrast, Debbie takes the little power she has as the number one character on the call sheet, and she uses it to get a better contract for herself. She still needs the help of her husband to get the job done, but she stands her ground.
When she hands Sam her contract, complete with an addendum, Sam dismissively asks, “You want to be a producer?” She replies, “Oh, I am a producer.” Best line of the entire episode!
She refuses to sign a crappy contract and is in the position to negotiate. I wish the other girls had the power to do what Debbie did. But now that she’s one of the ones in charge, we’ll see the GLOW ladies get more say and credit for their dangerous work.
Hopefully, this is the start of combatting sexism with feminism!
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Episode 2: Candy of the Year
GLOW isn’t wowing the live audience like the producers thought it would. Men are practically falling asleep.
During Sam and Bash’s “production meeting” sans Debbie, they decide the show is dragging and that they need to cut the matches from five to three. Sam split the ladies up into pairs and told them they would be competing for a spot on the show.
Ruth is notability left out of the partnerships because Sam is still punishing her from the week before. So, when she asks him for a chance, he pairs her with Yolanda, the new girl with no experience.
Debbie wants to be taken seriously as a producer. But, Sam and Bash think of it as “making the star happy.” She invites them over for fondue, but they don’t show up. Instead, Tammé, whose character is still keeping the crown hostage, shows up with a bottle of wine.
The two discuss their on-camera rivalry and how to play it up. It turns out Tammé couldn’t be further from her character “The Welfare Queen.” She’s worked hard all her life, holding odd jobs like making airline food and an audience coordinator for Family Feud. It’s through Tammé that Debbie gets the idea of partnering with the most popular candy of 1985, Nerds. They’ll give little packs of the crunchy, multi-colored candy to the audience to keep them awake.
It just goes to show Debbie isn’t just a producer by name.
Maybe if Sam’s daughter, Justine, came into his life sooner, he’d know how to treat women. I can’t imagine him being so dismissive while raising a daughter. Nonetheless, his 16-year-old, long-lost kid is living with him, and he’s trying to find his place on the father spectrum.
When it’s time for the girls to audition for that week’s show, Stacey and Dawn’s match with Melanie gets on the show because they stole an idea from Arthie.
Arthie hates her character, Beirut the Mad Bomber for the obvious reason of it being racist. She wants to “blow herself up” with a suicide vest and become “The Phoenix.”
But Stacey and Dawn are tired of playing old ladies, so they become the “Toxic Twins” after Melrose sprays them with Aqua Net. They get on the show. Liberty and Fortune Cookie will also be on the show since Liberty is the star.
Ruth and Yolanda know they can’t make the show with wrestling alone, so they come up with a breakdance battle skit that wins over Debbie and Bash – but not Sam. Debbie talks Ruth up and tells Sam, “You know she’s good, or you would have fired her.”
Ruth ultimately makes the show.
I think Sam is fighting more than one thing with Ruth. They hinted at an attraction last season and disguised it as a friendship, but I think deep down he respects her.
Yes, he is asserting his power over her by punishing her professionally, but I think he’s also fighting his feelings for her. He’s in love with her – I’m calling it now. He just doesn’t know it yet.
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Episode 3: Concerned Women of America
There are a lot of concerned women on GLOW right now.
Debbie in concerned for Ruth dating Russel the cameraman, who she deems creepy. Ruth, however, seems to like him and agrees to go to a Ruth Gordon Film Festival with him where Katherine Hepburn may be making an appearance.
We get our first glimpse of Cherry Bang on her new cop show. Unfortunately, the former stunt woman is horrible and struggling. She’s concerned she’ll lose her job. They change her hair and cut her lines, but she knows she’s on her way to an axing.
Keith, her husband and GLOW’s resident referee, goes to Sam for help – mainly to get Cherry out of her trailer. In the end, Sam demands Cherry comes back to GLOW and gives the cop-show-director a new direction for his show before they can fire her.
Yes, Cherry is back!
The ladies are concerned that they aren’t having enough sex, especially when they find out Justine has sex with her boyfriend all the time. They invite the camera guys and their hot friends to the “Glow-tel” for a party.
The only problem for Melanie is that she has a “poop baby,” which is a fancy way of saying she’s constipated. Since any poop humor cracks me up, I found this hilarious.
With the help of an enema, administered by Jenny in exchange for Melanie’s lucky jacket, she expels her poop baby. Unfortunately, it wasn’t fast enough. Jenny steals Melanie’s guy with the help of the lucky jacket.
The Concerned Women of America, a group of women who determine whether or not television programming is appropriate for children, are demanding that the show clean up its image. There’s too much sexuality, violence, and Satanism.
Debbie’s answer is a PSA in which she enlists Ruth’s help. They develop a creative spot to warn teenagers against the dangers of teen pregnancy. Justine plays the teenager, of course, and Carmen plays a big baby who “wrestles” away things to look forward to in the future like college, parties, and world travels. The ladies of GLOW represent each reason. It’s creative and campy, and a perfect way to get the Concerned Women of America off their backs.
It also shows just how smart and valuable Debbie and Ruth are. I think they’ll take over without Sam and Bash even realizing it.
Debbie keeps Ruth from her date with Russel to record the voice-overs. Maybe Debbie is protecting Ruth, but perhaps she’s getting her back for sleeping with her husband. She knows Ruth will do anything to get their friendship back and Debbie is totally taking advantage of it.
You can tell she’s conflicted. Cheating sucks for all of those involved. And you can love someone and hate them at the same time. And that’s how Debbie feels in a nutshell.
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Episode 4: Mother of All Matches
This is my favorite episode so far, this season.
The show is a parallel between Debbie and Tammé as they prepare for their match for the crown the Welfare Queen stole from Liberty.
They’re so much more alike than you think. They are both single mothers, raising sons, and trying to be part of something that makes them proud. They fiercely love their sons.
This is Betty Gilpin’s finest acting and I think could earn her an Emmy nod.
When her ex’s new secretary calls to find out the make and model of their old mattress, she snaps and sells it. But Facebook doesn’t exist yet, so she tapes a sign to the tree outside of her house instead.
You know when people get addicted to something that gives them a rush, like shoplifting or jumping out of planes? She gets addicted to selling her stuff. Next thing we know, there’s dozens of people in her house “shopping.”
One little old lady comments on how nice the picture of her and her ex are in a silver picture frame. Debbie goes on a monologue about her son looking more like her ex than her and ends it with the best line ever, “We’re all just a bunch of dildos banging around trying to have a few good moments.” I actually laughed out loud when she said it.
Meanwhile, Tammé drives five and a half hours to Stanford to visit her son, Ernest, for Parent’s Weekend. She can only stay for a few hours and tries to make the most of her time with him.
Ernest is one of a few black students on campus and when a white girl mistakes him for another black student who looks nothing like him, Tammé and Ernest sort of laugh it off. But really, it has to be annoying.
Ernest doesn’t know about Tammé’s new job, so when a fan approaches her and calls her the Welfare Queen, she’s excited, and Ernest says, “What did you call my mom?”
He insists on driving back down with her to see the match.
Liberty takes the crown back from the Welfare Queen, but the humiliation and racial stereotypes after the match are what affects Tammé without her realizing it.
Liberty exclaims this is for all the moms out there, even for Welfare Queen, who has many. As the audience chants “get a job,” Tammé leaves the stage in tears and her son close to tears as he watches.
The crowd, who was a few minutes ago cheering for Liberty, turns on her. This prompts Ruth to grab a little girl in the audience dressed in red, white, and blue, pretends she’s Liberty’s daughter, Savannah, and “kidnaps” her as Zoya.
It’s genius and moves the storyline forward.
In the end, Tammé’s son is proud of his mom and her ability to wrestle, even though he thinks her character is offensive.
And Mark confronts Debbie about selling the furniture and accuses her of being a lousy mother without saying it. In my humble opinion, he is preying on an insecurity all working mothers face: guilt for leaving their child to work.
Bye Mark, good riddance.
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Episode 5: Perverts are People, Too
The network wants to meet with Sam, Bash, and Debbie to talk about the show. Glenn tells them they need to re-sell the show to the head of the network, Tom Grant, after losing some sponsorship.
At the same time, Glenn calls Ruth to invite her to dinner with Tom Grant to discuss her future on the network. This excites her, thinking they see her potential.
When she shows up, “dinner” is really in Tom’s hotel room and he wants to “wrestle” with her. He inappropriately touches her, making her feel uncomfortable. So, she bolts.
The next day, the producers find out their meeting with him is canceled, they’ve decided to move the show to a 2 a.m. time slot, and they’ll likely get canceled.
Ruth confesses to Debbie what happens and Ruth is surprised when Debbie berates her for not “playing along” to Tom’s advances. “The one time you keep your legs closed…” The slut-shaming and lack of empathy are baffling to me, and especially to Ruth.
I get it. Debbie came up in the entertainment industry when men got away with sexual harassment of women. It was the norm. Hell, it was still normal until about six months ago thanks to Harvey Weinstein. If men don’t get what they want, they punish the woman.
Ruth, rightfully so, doesn’t understand why it has to be that way. She’s ahead of her time. I’m chalking this up to Debbie not knowing any better. But I also think she’s angry and taking it out on Ruth.
This is proof that girls can be really hard on each other for some crazy reason. And don’t say you’re not guilty of it, we all are – myself included!
The girls all decide to capitalize on their fame by holding meet-and-greets before tapings. It’s nice to see that they all have fans, even weird ones. There may not be many of them, but it gives the girls a significant morale boost.
I loved the scenes with Bash back in his childhood room, admiring his hung-up pictures of his favorite wrestlers. He’s more than a scatter-brained playboy. He genuinely wants this show to work as a tribute to his favorite hobby, well besides drugs. I appreciate the fact that they showed another layer to his character.
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Episode 6: Work the Leg
“Work the Leg” speaks to the very last scene of this episode, which we’ll get to in a little bit.
It’s driving Sam and Bash nuts not knowing why GLOW is getting the shaft by the network. They storm the office to try to get answers and find out that a men’s wrestling show is replacing them.
Their answer is to intensify their moves to be more competitive with the men’s show. Carmen and Cherry study men’s wrestling and teach the girls how to execute them. The result is nothing short of ‘80s magic. They even accompany the training montage with Frank Stallone’s “Far from Over,” first featured in Saturday Night Fever’s less-epic sequel, Staying Alive.
One thing standing in the girls’ ways is their own issues with each other. Everyone is fighting; Debbie and Ruth for obvious reasons, Melanie and Jenny over a man, and Stacey and Dawn with Arthie over stealing ideas. Carmen snaps everyone out of their pettiness and reminds them that men don’t have issues like this because they shut up and do their jobs. They don’t talk about their feelings. I love Carmen!
In other news, Sam and Ruth finally made up.
Justine invites Ruth to a showing of Sam’s early work Gina the Mechina. When Ruth shows up, it seems as if Sam is annoyed, mainly because Ruth is hesitant about sitting with him. But he finally “apologizes” by admitting that he’s an insecure old man and gets defensive.
He wants whatever is attached to his name to be amazing. That’s why he’s so mad about the network canning GLOW. He saw it as perfect and can’t understand what happened.
Ruth tells Sam what happened with Tom, and his reaction is the exact opposite of Debbie’s. He’s relieved he didn’t do anything wrong, but pissed – so much so, he breaks Tom’s windshield.
Just when the girls are making leaps forward in the ring, Debbie takes setbacks in her personal life.
She finds out Mark is sleeping with his secretary, Susan, the one who called asking about their mattress, by running into them while they have the baby. She walks away from the conversation, clearly crushed.
Sam is supportive and gives her a drink and a cigarette when she arrives anguished.
She finds his cocaine and takes a snort. Debbie’s downward spiral ends with her breaking Ruth’s leg in the ring. I can still hear the crunch!
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Episode 7: Nothing Shattered
Ruth’s definitely hurt, in case you were wondering.
Russell comes to her rescue first, swooping her up in the ring and takes her outside. This makes Sam jealous and territorial. He takes charge of the situation and tells the girls, who are freaking out, that they need to take Ruth to the nearest hospital.
And there they all sit in the waiting room with her. Again, Russell walks in showing his concern for Ruth and Sam basically kicks him out. This time, the girls pick up on what’s happening.
Meanwhile, Bash finds Debbie naked in the showers, coming off her coked-up performance. He goes off on one of his out-loud inner monologues about how he blames himself for pushing the girls too hard. He has no idea that Debbie hurt Ruth on purpose.
Back at the hospital, Sheila has a Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment moment in the waiting room. “My friend’s in pain!” I appreciated the reference, and so did Ruth.
After Ruth is taken back to see the doctor, she asks Sam to take her mind off of the pain. Cue Hall and Oats’ “Make My Dreams Come True” “Cheer Ruth Up” montage. There’s something about that song that makes everything better. It was the best use of that song in any form of entertainment since “The Wedding Singer.”
After Ruth’s x-rays, Debbie finally shows up to check on her. She’s there when the doctor tells them it’s a clean ankle break.
Debbie’s lack of remorse and brush-off of Ruth’s feelings lead to the blowout fight they’ve been aching for since we found out Ruth slept with Debbie’s husband. They both say things that they mean and that needed to be said. Yes, Ruth screwed up, big time. But she’s paid for it in spades.
Their relationship has more layers than we saw on-screen. Ruth knows Debbie never loved Mark. And Debbie thrived off of Ruth’s failures and mistakes. I hope they can move on from this because I like them so much better when they’re frenemies, or at least getting along.
As an olive branch, Debbie shows up to Sheila and Ruth’s room to get her clothes. Sheila shares a story about her parents. They stockpile ammo and have major blow-out fights. Even though she waits for them to get divorced, they always get back together.
I think this is Sheila’s way of saying Debbie and Ruth are just like her parents. But just as Debbie said, can you even picture Sheila with parents?
Ruth is devastated she will no longer be able to appear on the show. And in the most touching Ruth/Sam moment thus far, he tells her, “It’s not just a TV show I don’t want to make this show without you. I’m not going to make this show without you.”
Yes, there is chemistry between them, and I am here for it! They have a Sam and Diane, mixed with Tony and Angela quality about them that is so ‘80s. They’re opposites, but they get each other. They don’t always get along, but they’re crazy about each other.
They’re getting together. You’ll see!
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Episode 8: The Good Twin
We all know that GLOW is a T.V. show about a T.V. show. Well, for this episode, we finally get to see what it’s like to watch an entire G.L.O.W. episode!
For starters, it’s a lot less wrestling and a lot more skits…almost like Saturday Night Live. Everything is somehow connected, like a soap opera.
It starts with Ruth playing Zoya and Zoya’s twin sister in Russia. Obviously, Zoya is the evil twin. Her “nice” sister, who has a deformed foot (or broken ankle), decides to ride a goat to America to tell Liberty Bell how to get her daughter back from Zoya.
The heals of GLOW are holding Savannah in a locker labeled “safe,” and she has to fight Vicky the Viking, Beirut the Mad Bomber, and Fortune Cookie to get the combination for the lock. She beats them and rescues her daughter, ending that storyline.
Other fun sequences include “Grievercise,” an exercise program for people going through heartbreak. Liberty Bell, of course, leads the class because of her missing daughter. Melrose is upset that stores always sell out of size 7 ½ shoes. They also have a “We are the World”- type song skit with an anti-kidnapping message.
There’s a music video for Melrose’s song “Makeover,” in which the girls are denied entry to a club because of the way they look, so they all get a makeover.
And the other main storyline of the show is between Britannica and Black Magic, Cherry’s new character. Black Magic offers to turn Britannica’s mannequin into a real man in exchange for her brain. When she steals her brain (a floppy disc) back, they have a wrestling match.
At the very end, you realize two people are actually watching the show from home. They recognize Justine as one of the actresses. The woman in the scene, played by Annabella Sciorra, sees “Sam Sylvia” in the credits and looks shocked. I’m assuming it’s Justine’s mother.
The casting of Annabella Sciorra is significant because she is one of the leaders of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. In an article in The New Yorker, Sciorra said that Harvey Weinstein raped her. She was instrumental in bringing him down. So, in a season with so much girl power and feminism, her casting was no accident.
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Episode 9: Rosalie
I was right; Annabella Sciorra plays Justine’s mom, and her name is Rosalie.
She shows up to Sam’s house the morning after Justine invited Ruth over for a “family dinner.” Sam is too drunk to drive Ruth home, so he invites her to stay over. She sleeps on the couch. I love how Sam is getting sweeter with Ruth.
When Rosalie shows up, we find out that Justine told her mother she was at a performing arts high school and that she periodically checked in with her. We also find out that Sam slept with Rosalie 17 years prior and it was a one night stand.
Sam begs Ruth to stay as a buffer, which she obliges. When Rosalie wants to take Justine right away, Ruth convinces her to stay so that Justine can go to Winter Formal with her boyfriend.
They all head to the formal where Justine plans to run away with Billy. But not before Sam figures out her plan. He proves he’s a good father and shows just how much of a good influence they are in each other’s lives. He convinces her to stay. Maybe if Sam knew about Justine before, he would have screwed up. But I think she came into his life when she was supposed to.
I have to say; it’s sort of weird because why would a mother, a long-lost father, and the long-lost father’s friend who he secretly loves all go to a high school dance together? Anyway, it’s the perfect setting for Ruth and Sam’s almost-kiss – during Madonna’s “Crazy for You.” It’s one of my personal favorites (to sing).
As the music played, and they got closer to each other, knowing the kiss was imminent, Ruth pulls away and hobbles out of there as fast as her gimpy legs could take her. She ends up at Russell’s where they kiss. Come on Ruth! Why are you fighting this?
Meanwhile, back at the Glow-tel, the girls convince British-born Rhonda to go to the consulate to get a visa so she could work after the show gets canceled. The plan backfires when they find out she’s illegal and force her to vacate the country within 30 days.
A very high Carmen suggests she marries her biggest fan, the cupcake guy (played by the same guy who played Ham Porter in The Sandlot!)
Lastly, Bash and Debbie attend a syndication convention in Anaheim to try to sell the show to another channel after GLOW gets canceled. They aren’t prepared like some of the other shows, so they take a page out of Kermit the Frog a la Muppets Take Manhattan and start a whisper campaign.
It worked like a charm, and they receive a bunch of calls on Bash’s Zack Morris phone as they celebrate at a nearby bar.
Then, Bash receives a call from a hospital in San Francisco with news about his butler, Florian, who he had been looking for this entire season. Early on, Florian left him when his paycheck bounced.
Florian passed away from pneumonia, leaving Bash devastatingly shell-shocked.
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Episode 10: Every Potato Has a Receipt
Let’s start with the end.
The network won’t allow the gorgeous ladies of wrestling to take their characters with them to another network. So, they are S.O.L. The season finale of the show within the show was absolutely brilliant.
Rhonda (as Britannica) was all set to marry Cupcake live on air. All the ladies of GLOW were her bridesmaids, and she even wore Debbie’s old wedding dress. After the wedding, the girls would have a Battle Royale and fight over the bouquet.
But just before they were to go live, Carmen’s wrestler brothers show up to confront her about stealing their moves. As a compromise, they would make a “small” cameo during the show at some point.
As the ladies enter the ring, Carmen must wear a shirt that claimed she peed the bed until she was 10. I guess this is one of the stipulations from her brothers.
A lonely and sad Bash interrupts Rhonda and Toby’s wedding to declare his love for Rhonda, and they marry instead. Seeing the look of heartbreak on Carmen’s face, who clearly likes Bash is crushing. It’s worse than the damn shirt.
I’m not sure if Rhonda and Bash will stay married, but as Ruth pointed out, she just married a millionaire without a prenup. So, she’ll get her green card, and she hit the lottery in one fell swoop.
Sam and Ruth have another cute moment together where they talk about weddings, and he stumbles into a sort of apology for trying to kiss her at the dance. Ruth admits that she’s sleeping with Russell, who is nice but COME ON! He’s painfully average I can’t stand it!
After Sam tells Ruth that Justine left with Rosalie, he poetically says he makes room for people in his heart. And then when they leave, the room is still there. In case you were wondering, he’s most certainly talking about Ruth, too.
After Ruth’s desperate attempt to try to make it on the show wrestling one more time with her broken ankle, she settles for an assistant director role with Sam in the booth. I just love how he does things to make her happy, even though she keeps denying him!
Or maybe she’s trying to be responsible for once and not mix business and pleasure. But this is the one case where I wish she would.
Anyway, back during the Battle Royale, Carmen’s brothers make a huge cameo and fight against Liberty, Machu Picchu, and She Wolf, and the women beat them. And just as the three ladies resume their battle for the bouquet and the crown, Sam tells Ruth to get up. Surprise! She’s part of the show. I could cry! I did cry!
She flies in on a zip line, gimpy leg and all, kicks Carmen in the back and takes the bouquet, winning the crown.
That’s why it sucks that the network cancels the show.
However, Ray the strip club owner and new friend of Sam’s convinces the gorgeous ladies that they need to take their show and their characters to Vegas. So, off to Sin City they go.
And the best show on Netflix, in my opinion, ends with the most epic song ever: “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by Starship. Seriously, after a long day of binging and writing, and then a national cable and internet outage, I should be exhausted, but I am so happy and energized!
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Thank you to the producers for ending the season on that song. Clutch choice! Now, if you can find a way to make Sam and Ruth happen, I’ll love you even more.
I think this season of GLOW was even better than the first. It’s going to be a long year waiting for this show to come back.