where Ruth’s wrestling alter ego Zoya the Destroya is Scrooge.GLOW
Perhaps most importantly, the wrestling sequences take up a lot of real estate on a show with a big ensemble — an ensemble that it was clearly determined to service more thoroughly this year than in the past. By acknowledging early on that the Vegas show would be the same from night to night, Season Three gave itself more room to dig deeper into nearly every character.
There was also good material for Sheila the She-Wolf and Tammé as they opted to make like Ruth and get serious about acting; for Debbie as she asserted herself as a producer and fell into a brief romance with older businessman Tex ; for the awkward romance between Arthie and Yolanda , who had no interest in hiding her own identity; for) to make peace with the fact that daughter Justine was a better writer than him; and for Cherry to debate whether to sacrifice her career to have a baby...
While the Vegas setting hemmed in the creative team regarding how much the show-within-the-show could change each time we saw it, it’s also not coincidental that “Freaky Tuesday” and “A VeryChristmas” were among the season’s most effective episodes for both laughs and character development.just feels livelier, and truer to itself, when we’re spending at least a few minutes each episode on the work that’s brought these misfits together.