User Reviews

Marc Maron and Alison Brie's characters do have strong chemistry, that has been apparent since the first episode and they could make something as huge as an abortion come off as comedic.

Unfortunately, almost all of the roller skating stuff and things with Sheila's birthday were a bit underwhelming.

Great episode involving breaking the reclusive Sheila the She-Wolf out of her shell by having a birthday party for her at a roller rink, but more importantly for Ruth's decision to have an abortion after finding out she was pregnant.

The last guy she had sex with was Debbie's husband, Mark. Therefore here's the other options; she could've kept the kid, which would've prevented her from working and would've created more problems with her attempts to repair her friendship with Debbie and Debbie's attempt to repair her marriage with Mark. The other option would've been to try to continue to work with the pregnancy and run the risk of miscarrying it, which would not be something people would want to witness, especially after Melrose faked one in a previous episode as a joke, which didn't go over well with Cherry, who had one prior to the series.

This is just one of those reasons, for better or worse and whether you're pro-choice or pro-life, that a woman would have an abortion. It hurts to watch Ruth have to go through it, but I understand.

I don't understand why producers/writers did this. Was it to support their politics?

Up until this episode GLOW had basically been a comedy with a little drama here and there. There was a great concept, great character development, and it was truly funny.

I felt like even that small amount of drama was there to support the comedy. But putting in an unplanned pregnancy which is ended introduces a topic that is fiercely debated and just isn't funny. It's the opposite - it's depressing. And for the life of me, I don't see what value it added to the show other than making a political point in a show that isn't about ideology.

I'm sure the producers/writers felt righteous making this episode but in the future I'm going to do a little research as to whether a show pushes an agenda other than entertainment.