GLOW Creators On Season 2’s ‘Show Within A Show’ Meta Episode

GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch recently spoke with Rolling Stone about the season two episode “The Good Twin”. You can check out a few highlights below:

Flahive and Mensch on why this season made sense for the episode: 

Mensch: “At one point, we discussed closing Season One with a full episode where we never really break from the show. And it was clear that we weren’t there yet in terms of our story and our characters and what you needed to understand and feel it.”

Flahive: “We wanted to pay off stories that already happened and then set up more stories going forward. And we wanted to do a lot of work so it didn’t just feel like a detour.”

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Flahive on why they didn’t intentionally mirror a ’80s GLOW episode:  

“I don’t think we’re honoring the structure so much as the spirit of mixing genres that don’t belong together. We intentionally didn’t study the structure of it so that we wouldn’t copy it. We knew that we would want two matches, because our show is half the size of their show. Theirs is an hour, ours is a half-hour. So we kind of left structure behind.”

Flahive on the episode providing double screen time for ‘Zoya’: 

“The thing that felt so exciting to us. is having [Alison Brie] play not one but two Russian characters; it felt bananas. And it also answered a narrative question of: With her injury, how is she going to stay central in the show even if she can’t wrestle? So it was just fun to lean into that fully and also have it play off of things that we were doing in the sort of outside-of-the-show narrative.”

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