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Thesecond season ofGLOWis great.
GLOWseason two avoids all of those pitfalls becauseGLOWseason two is not built like a ten-hour movie.
David Benioff and D.B.
WeissdescribedGame of Thronesthis way.
Jonathan Nolan has said thateach season ofWestworldis like a movie.
Alex Kurtzmansaid it about the first season ofStar Trek: Discovery.
Rami Maleksaid it aboutMr.
Noah Hawley said it aboutLegion(in a very highfalutin email to critics).
The problem is that too many shows built for the long haul areboring.
Theyre full of baggy, meandering stories that equate episodic stories with frivolity and season-length ones with quality.
ButGLOWdivides that story up into smaller pieces that work as little stories unto themselves.
Theyre notLaw & Orderepisodes, but theyre notJessica Jonesepisodes either.
The most obvious example is The Good Twin, a stand-alone story within a story thats almost impossibly delightful.
But most of the episodes have their own themes and their own small arcs, too.
Episode three, Concerned Women of America, is framed by the production of a public-service announcement.
it’s possible for you to keep your ten-hour movies.
