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I Saw the TV Glow
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I Saw the TV Glow is a 2024 drama/horror film about a lonely kid, Owen (Justice Smith) just trying to survive life in the suburbs when his classmate, Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) introduces him to a late-night TV show, The Pink Opaque. When The Pink Opaque is mysteriously canceled, Owen and Maddy find their version of reality starting to crack, and they go on a surreal journey of self-discovery. It was written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, who made their debut in 2022 with We're All Going to the World's Fair. Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst, Helena Howard, and Phoebe Bridgers round out the cast.I Saw the TV Glow premiered at Sundance in January 2024 and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on May 3rd and a wide release on May 18th. The trailer is here. | |
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Spooky Kids Media | |
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Spooky Kids Media: The Pink Opaque is a Monster of the Week children's show that is, according to young Maddy, "way too scary for most kids." It drives a lot of Maddy and Owen's psychological deterioration although Owen's dysphoria is also a contributing factor. | |
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Pastiche | |
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Pastiche: The Pink Opaque deliberately draws inspiration from a plethora of low-budget fantasy shows aimed at kids and teenagers in the 1990s—including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, The Secret World of Alex Mack, The Journey of Allen Strange, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, So Weird, Animorphs, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers—without being tied to a single source of inspiration. To capture the feel of the decade even better, it uses a distinctive hot pink color motif that recalls the visual style of Lisa Frank. | |
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Dark World | |
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Dark World: The Pink Opaque's "Midnight Realm", where Tara and Isabel are sent in the unintended series finale to waste away and die, is this. Maddie believes that "our" world is the Midnight Realm, and that her and Owen's lives are dark and hopeless illusions. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Pink Opaque is cancelled after ending on a cliffhanger, with Isabel and Tara at death's door and Mr. Melancholy seemingly about to win. | |
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Head Smashes Screen | |
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Head Smashes Screen: After the dark downer finale of The Pink Opaque, Owen jams his head through his television. | |
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The Man in the Moon | |
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The Man in the Moon: Mr. Melancholy, the Big Bad of The Pink Opaque is the moon with a face. | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
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All of the Other Reindeer: Maddy is ostracized at school, with the younger Owen as her only friend, due to rumors that she touched her former friend Amanda’s breast. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The Pink Opaque ended with both main characters trapped and buried alive with their hearts removed. The film also ends on a downer note, as Owen is slowly dying of an illness that makes it hard to breathe and feels trapped in their own body. Furthermore, if what Maddy said about Owen actually being Isabel trapped in the Midnight Realm is true, then this means that Isabel is also dying and Mr. Melancholy will likely win. | |
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Psycho Lesbian | |
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Psycho Lesbian: Invoked. Maddy is ostracized at school over a rumor that she touched her former friend Amanda's breast. | |
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Creator Thumbprint | |
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Creator Thumbprint: Has a lot in common with writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's debut feature, We're All Going to the World's Fair. Both are about young people living their lives online/through media and becoming gradually obsessed to the point where reality fragments about them, with heavy queer subtext and queer themes (explicit in I Saw The TV Glow, not in We're All Going to the World's Fair). | |
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Fictional Counterpart | |
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Fictional Counterpart: "The Young Adult Network", the network where The Pink Opaque runs, is a pretty obvious take-off of Nickelodeon circa 1996. The network even runs reruns of old sitcoms late at night (a nod to Nick at Nite). | |
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Trans Tribulations | |
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Trans Tribulations: The whole film could be read as the story of a person whose experiences with transphobia have made it very difficult to accept themselves as transgender but whose dysphoria leaves them with a heavy and looming depression. The fact that Owen dons a dress at one point and the film implies Maddy is correct that Owen is represented by the female Isabel in The Pink Opaque means that this borders on text. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Owen's mom is present in their life in the early part of the movie, but she is diagnosed with cancer in Owen's freshman year and dies soon afterwards. Owen has a distant (at best) relationship with their father, and it's implied that her absence through most of their younger years contributes greatly to Owen's depression and spiraling mental state. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Casting Gag: This is Helena Howard's second role about a teenager's blurring of reality, fantasy, and imagination - the first was her debut Madeline's Madeline. The film is partially a tribute to young adult TV shows of the mid-1990s, of the type that ran on Nickelodeon during the network's heyday. Appropriately, Danny Tamberelli and Michael Maronna—best known as the title characters of The Adventures of Pete & Pete—have a brief cameo as Owen's neighbors in a scene where he stumbles out of his house after hallucinating that he's being sucked into his TV. Another clear reference for The Pink Opaque is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including a character named Tara. Amber Benson, who played Tara on Buffy, has a cameo. | |
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The Dividual | |
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The Dividual: Marco and Polo, Mr. Melancholy's henchmen in The Pink Opaque, are two crescent moon-faced creatures who move in sync with each other. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: Owen remembers The Pink Opaque as terrifying and emotionally fraught. Rewatching it as an adult, he sees only a cheesy, dated kid's show. | |
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Multiple Demographic Appeal | |
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Multiple Demographic Appeal: The film has been positively received by '90s kids for capturing the nostalgia of the decade’s young adult programming, and by LGBT fans due to Maddy being a lesbian and the trans reading of Owen, who is shown at one point trying on a dress and who Maddy insists is actually the female Isabel in The Pink Opaque universe. The film implies Maddy is correct. | |
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Rainbow Puke | |
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Rainbow Puke: Mr. Melancholy forces Isabel and Tara to drink "Luna Juice" in The Pink Opaque series finale, sending them both into a coma while vomiting up the purple juice. Owen vomits it up himself several times, suggesting that he may indeed be Isabel. | |
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Psychic Link | |
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Psychic Link: Tara and Isabel have one thanks to "The Pink Opaque", allowing them to work together to fight evil despite not physically being together for most of the series. | |
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They Look Like Us Now | |
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They Look Like Us Now: The Pink Opaque's finale ends with henchman Marco taking Tara's appearance, suggesting the villains will now be able to integrate themselves into human society. This contributes to Owen's paranoia, as the strange and inhuman behavior of the people around him indicates that they too might be from another world. | |
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Refusal of the Call | |
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Refusal of the Call: Owen is too scared to go through with running away with Maddie as a high-schooler, and he again runs off when Maddie reveals that they are meant to be in the world of The Pink Opaque, dismissing it as crazy. The movie heavily implies that Maddie was right. | |
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Refugee from TV Land | |
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Refugee from TV Land: It's implied that Owen and Maddy are this, with what they think is the "real world" in fact being the Midnight Realm that Mr. Melancholy trapped Isabel and Tara in with little memory of their past identities, and the world of the TV show they came from being the actual "real world". | |
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Big Bad | |
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The show's Big Bad, a moon with a scary face, is modeled on the moon from the music video for "Tonight, Tonight" by Smashing Pumpkins. A cover of the song appears in the movie. | |
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Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality | |
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Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Maddy tells Owen that The Pink Opaque is "more real to her than reality." Owen tries to tell her that it's just a TV show, but even he doesn't stay sure. | |
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Word Salad Title | |
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Word Salad Title: Invoked by The Pink Opaque, a title which apparently refers to its two protagonists. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The scene where Maddy takes Owen to the Double Lunch bar to discuss her situation is framed similarly to Mulholland Dr.'s Club Silencio sequence. The film also features a recurring scene of Owen sitting next to a campfire in the woods, which is staged remarkably similar to the campfire scenes in Are You Afraid of the Dark? (that other cheesy horror show that ran on Nickelodeon in the '90s). The movie's official tagline is even "Are you afraid of the glow?" Owen shoving his head through the TV screen and especially the ending, where Owen cuts himself open and sees The Pink Opaque playing inside him, are homages to Max climbing through the screen and particularly to Max's "infection" through his stomach in Videodrome. | |
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Summer Campy | |
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Summer Campy: Isabel and Tara meet each other and gain their "Pink Opaque" powers when they go to a summer "sleepaway" camp by a lake in the pilot episode. This is the only time in the show where they meet in-person, though when they communicate with each other psychically it seems to take the appearance of them meeting in camp. The Season 5 finale has them attempt to meet up back at the camp, but they are both captured there by Mr. Melancholy before they can do so. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Maddy’s father is physically abusive, and she latches onto The Pink Opaque as a coping mechanism and escape. Owen's father is emotionally distant as well as presumably homophobic/transphobic; Owen's reaction when his father asks "Isn't that a show for girls?" about The Pink Opaque implies this isn't the first time the topic of masculinity has come up like this. | |
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The '90s | |
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The '90s: The first act of the movie, detailing Owen and Maddy’s teen years, is set in the late '90s. | |
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20 Minutes into the Past | |
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20 Minutes into the Past: Maddy and Owen meet in 1996, when Owen is twelve and Maddy is fourteen. Most of the story then takes place a decade later, in 2006, ensuring that the final Time Skip doesn't take us too far into the future. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The most obvious inspiration for The Pink Opaque is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It uses the same font for its credits and has a character named Tara. The series' main villain is referred to by Maddy as a "Big Bad," a phrase coined by Buffy. Goosebumps (1995) is another clear inspiration for The Pink Opaque, being a cheesy '90s horror program that might come across as dated today. The Pink Opaque's credits even use a similar font! Another inspiration for the show is The Adventures of Pete & Pete. The scary ice cream cone mascot monster is similar to a character on the show, Mr. Tastee. In case the inspiration wasn't obvious enough, Danny Tamberelli and Michael Maronna have a brief cameo as two of Owen's neighbors. The show's Big Bad, a moon with a scary face, is modeled on the moon from the music video for "Tonight, Tonight" by Smashing Pumpkins. A cover of the song appears in the movie. | |
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Moody Trailer Cover Song | |
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Moody Trailer Cover Song: The trailer feature's Yeule's hypnotic cover of Broken Social Scene's "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl." This cover also features in the film itself alongside its soundtrack. | |
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Character Narrator | |
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Character Narrator: Owen will sometimes look at the camera and fill in some of the narrative gaps. | |
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Narm | |
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Narm: invoked Happens in-universe when a now-adult Owen in the present day goes back and watches The Pink Opaque on streaming. The clips shown earlier in the film painted it as a genuinely creepy show, but here, we see a cringeworthy mess of awful special effects and ham-fisted moral messages that Owen can't believe he was ever a fan of. | |
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Monster of the Week | |
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Monster of the Week: Namedropped by Maddie when describing the structure of The Pink Opaque. Various personalized monsters go after random groups of kids, and the protagonists figure out a way to defeat it. One such monster that appears briefly is a humanoid pink Ice Cream Cone with bulgy eyes and a melty face. | |
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No Ending: The Pink Opaque is cancelled after ending on a cliffhanger, with Isabel and Tara at death's door and Mr. Melancholy seemingly about to win. The film itself also ends without a real conclusion. The final scene sees an older, sickly Owen having a mental breakdown at his job at a kids' fun center, splitting open his abdomen, and seeing The Pink Opaque playing inside him. Then the film ends abruptly as he walks back onto his job and apologizes to patrons for his earlier breakdown, but nobody acknowledges him. | |
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Kuleshov Effect: Both Owen and Maddie sport a flat, distant expression through most of the film. | |
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Buried Alive: The ultimate fate of the protagonists in The Pink Opaque’s final episode. Maddy also paid a man to do the same thing to her, claiming that the act brought her to The Pink Opaque reality as one of the protagonists. | |
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