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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, though, Owen and Maddy find their version of reality starting to crack, and they go on a surreal journey of self-discovery. Danielle Deadwyler, Helena Howard, and Phoebe Bridgers also star.I Saw the TV Glow premiered at Sundance in January 2024 and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on May 3rd, with wide release set for May 18th. The trailer is here. It was written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, who made their debut in 2022 with We're All Going to the World's Fair. | |
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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. | |
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Head Smashes Screen | |
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Head Smashes Screen: After the dark downer finale of The Pink Opaque, Owen is found with his head jammed through his television. | |
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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: 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: Apparently The Pink Opaque ended with both main characters trapped and buried alive with their hearts removed. | |
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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: 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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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—cameo as the protagonist's neighbors. 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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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: Owen rememberes 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 both by former 90’s kids for capturing the nostalgia of the decade alongside the tributes to the decade’s young adult programming, and by LGBT fans due to implications of Maddy being a lesbian, and the trans reading of Owen, a young man whose best friends are girls and whom Maddy insists is actually the female Isabel in The Pink Opaque universe. | |
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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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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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Abusive Parents: Maddy’s father is physically abusive, and she latches onto The Pink Opaque as a coping mechanism and escape. | |
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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. 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. 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: Owen will sometimes look at the camera and fill in some of the narrative gaps. | |
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Monster of the Week | |
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Monster of the Week: Essentially what The Pink Opaque was about. Various personalized monsters go after random groups of kids, and they figure out a way to defeat it. One such monster that appears briefly in the initial trailer is a humanoid pink Ice Cream Cone with bulgy eyes and a melty face. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: The final scene sees an older Owen in poor health conditions having a vision of seeing The Pink Opaque playing when he opens his abdomen. Then the film ends as he is walking back out into his job and apologizing to patrons for his earlier breakdown, but nobody acknowledges him. | |
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Buried Alive | |
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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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