I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) – Total waste of time! Stay clear!
Rating: ⭐
This must be one of the most insufferable movies I have seen in a long time. It has a plot about the bonding of two teenagers who live in the suburbs who have a common obsession over a supernatural TV series. Owen, a recluse strikes an unlikely connection to a fellow schoolmate, Maddy who is two years his senior, when he saw her reading a book about the TV series. The relationship is shown to take place over a span of several years until they are adults. The TV series seems to have a strangle hold on both of them taking over their lives as they begin to manifest visions of the TV series in their real lives.
I am not going to even try to understand what the show is about as it simply too weird and lifeless to accentuate any appeal for me to make the effort. Just about everything about the film did not work for me. I found the acting amateurish, the script excruciatingly abstract and boring, and the visual camerawork sleep inducing. The attempt to show two reclusive teenagers traumatized by their circumstance at home and at school failed to wrench out any sympathy from me as I found them simply too unrelatable.
The film’s failure lies predominantly with its inept writer director, Jane Schoenbrun. Jane is transfeminine (meaning she was born a male but predominantly identify or express herself as feminine). I do not mean to come across as being anti trans gender here, but I feel that in this case, much of her background actually came across the screen through the weird colours, weird characters and ambiguous sexual preference of the story’s main characters. Weirdness is not necessarily a bad thing and in fact it can come across as something refreshing and original if done right. When done wrong, it becomes something that is so radical that it becomes only accessible and appreciably by a minority group.
One of the reasons why I gave this movie a try was because it actually garnered a decent number of positive reviews. After watching this, all I can say is either they were watching another movie, or they were simply raving to show support to the transgender community and avoid being branded racist or being transphobia. This is becoming increasing apparent in a society that practices cancel culture and intolerance against people who wish to express an honest opinion that might heaven forbid, be offensive to people in a certain sector of society. Anyway, to stay focus here, this movie is crab and not worth your time watching.