Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling (GLOW)

"GLOW is a very hard promotion to rate fairly, so I won't. Very much a product of its time. The wrestling often left a lot to be desired, but what is to be expected with a bunch of rookies with limited training. What really made this show work was that a lot of women were committed to their colorful, exaggerated gimmicks and that kept a lot of fans (especially casual ones) invested. The skits and music bits, that were far too numerous, were usually pretty bad, although they certainly tried. GLOW did show that there was an audience for women's wrestling and viewers cared for them more than a select few of other women's wrestlers of the time except for say Sherri Martel, Madusa and Wendi Richter."

[3.0] "You might see GLOW as a fantastic product because of the way it was portrayed in the Netflix show, but the reality is that it was a train-wreck of a promotion. Cliché gimmicks, sh*t matches and average production values."

[3.0] "This promotion was responsible for making people not take women's wrestling seriously for a long time, and it took many years for women's wrestling to get past the damage caused by GLOW. The only good thing about GLOW is that it was not as bad as WEW."

[7.0] "Much can be said about GLOW - that it was pure camp, much of the comedy was cringeworthy, much of the talent was minimally-trained, an even on its best day the actual wrestling wasn't all that good - and it's all true. But some aspects of it were truly innovative for its time that it deserves credit for. It proved that a women's wrestling product was indeed viable for an American audience (a full three decades before WWE got the memo), and in its presentation of wrestling as a seasonal TV show with out-of-the-ring, character-building skits rather than as a year-round pseudo-sports league, it set the stage for modern-day products like Lucha Underground and the Hardys' Broken Universe, which themselves are seen as innovating what exactly wrestling can be. GLOW also achieved something that perhaps no other American promotion other than WWE (and for a few years WCW) has, in that it became an icon of mainstream popular culture outside of just the dedicated wrestling fandom, as demonstrated by the continuing interest in GLOW represented by the fictionalized Netflix series based on it."