I Saw the TV Glow is beautiful and deliberately crafted by its director Jane Schoenbrun. But depending on who's watching, the mystery at its heart is either too obvious, or too inscrutable to justify more than 30 minutes."It feels like someone took a shovel and dug out all my insides.
But in action, it's a nearly inscrutable metaphor hidden beneath miles of 90s pop-art symbolism. It both asks too much of its audience while offering too few rewards for the effort. Prying into what turns out to be a strict, sheltered childhood with a bedtime so early he can't watch the coolest show on TV, she becomes even nicer. Owen is invited over to a secret sleepover in Maddy's basement so they can stay up to watchtogether, painted in the same staticky light as scattered shouting and implied violence echoes upstairs to sketch a picture of Maddy's own problems.
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