GLOW
The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling 9/10
I
watched the documentary of Glow: The Story Of The Gorgeous Ladies Of
Wrestling and I'll be damned if I didn't learn a lot of new
information. Most documentaries are like “Wow. Its rough being
Black. Oh. America sure did a lot of shady shit during World War 2.
Damn. Sex used to be boring.” This one shows the history of GLOW
from its very beginning to how they gathered a roster of young women
and somehow got them to become wrestlers without telling them that
they were auditioning for a wrestling based series.
I
watched this show as a kid and had my favorites. Matilda The Hun. Mt.
Fiji. Later Big Bad Mama. Little Egypt. The Farmer's Daughters.
Spanish Red who I thought looked Asian. I would watch this on
Saturday in the early afternoon as a kid. Watching this as a grown
ass man it is pretty clear that I had no real adult supervision
because I was pretty much watching naked women rolling around a ring.
They had on bikinis an lingerie. These women wanted to be models and
actresses and the next thing you know they are living in Las Vegas
rapping and wrestling. Fuck staying on beat! I think 20% of them
rapped to what was playing.
While
they lived in Vegas they were split up between the good girl and the
bad girls. The booker of the show told them that they had to stay in
character when in public and there could be no mixing of the sides or
they would be fined and punished. Besides showing actual footage from
the series you get to hear interviews with the women that used to
perform. Most of them have not even been in touch with one another
since the show ended suddenly so Little Egypt, inspired by the
filming of this documentary, decides to have a reunion. There is a
scene during the reunion that almost made me cry. Mind you, I have no
cried in 16 years and the only things that can make me feel like it
may happen is a song from An American Tail, the last scene from
Antwoine Fisher, when Optimus Prime died in the Transformers cartoon,
and Eddie Guerrero tribute videos. So when it happened watching this
I had to say to myself “Really? This? A GLOW documentary is gonna
get me? Stop it! Grr. No. Pinch you. Pinch you, bitch...”
If you
watched this show when it aired you will love this. It made me
appreciate what the hell these women were doing and the dedication
they had to the characters they played. They had country against
country, race against race, hookers against cheerleaders. Everything.
But be careful of them damned onion ninjas.
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