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Cambodian-American Jenny Chey (Ellen Wong) plays Fortune Cookie, an exaggerated martial artist.
Indian-American Arthie Premkumar (Sunita Mani) plays a Middle Eastern terrorist named Beirut the Mad Bomber.
Its not a judgment, Bash insists.
Its just what I and the entire world see with our eyes.
The performatively positive and culturally negative elements of the originalG.L.O.W.fed into each other.
InaRolling Stoneinterview last year, Mensch explains that they wanted to tackle that porous boundary between entertainment and minstrelsy.
That tension was something we never wanted to resolve, she says.
We wanted to keep it alive and use it as the motor for a lot of our storytelling.
ButGLOWdid tackle the issue in a couple of key moments.
(Its sort of a fuck you to the Republican Party and their welfare reform and race-baiting shit!
In a brief post-match scene, a shaken Arthie noted that the audience really hated her in the ring.
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In the second season, however,GLOWmoves that political tension into the foreground.
Catharsis arrives in the strangest of forms.
Its a wrestling show.
Im not the only offensive character, Tamme protests.
after Welfare Queen loses to Liberty Belle.
It sends Tamme running out of the ring in tears.
Even after all that, Ernest still takes pride in his mother.
The status quo remains unchanged.
Welfare Queen lives on.
By wholly refusing to resolve these thorny sociopolitical conflicts,GLOWhas become a potent text about embracing problematic art.
