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(The very carefully placed Buffy references in the film would excite even a casual fan.) Usually, this attachment is also a way to cope—or not cope—with external forces happening to you as a teenager, however that looks like. For Schoenbrun, that was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Maybe the most significant physical change I made was switching from estrogen pills to injections; within a week or two my head felt clearer than it had my entire life and I got those feelings of euphoria and rightness that a lot of trans people describe what finally having the correct hormones in themselves feels like (and I frequently worried before this that, because I didn’t have that, maybe I wasn’t really trans).”
“I was able to work through a lot of personal hang ups and issues regarding my sexual identity, what I wanted in life, who I wanted to be, basically every facet of myself.
You’ll think about it as the nights pass and your online feeds become engrossed in fan theories. Though Owen still isn’t ready, rejecting the unburdened life Maddy shares is possible. A large population is having that kind of extreme emotional reaction and another part of the population is like, ‘What are you talking about?’” They continue, “This is perhaps the thing that I’m proudest of, or that I am humbled to have happen, is that something that was previously invisible, or an experience that a lot of people have had that felt personal and unexplainable, becomes something that there is now common language to discuss.”
Ian Foreman as young Owen in I Saw the TV Glow.
What has elicited such an emotional experience for so many first began as a mishmash of ideas that were long floating around in Schoenbrun’s head, even before their first feature, World’s Fair.
The queercoding is loudly coded.”
Isabel and Tara in The Pink Opaque.
The movie’s super creepy aesthetic is balanced with the whimsy of The Pink Opaque, represented through beautiful neon colors. The poetry of the film is with me through choices that I’ve been making since.” Schoenbrun knew that monologue would be the emotional crescendo of the film.
Bridgette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith play Maddy and Owen, respectively, and are gut-wrenchingly vulnerable. This type of story can also encourage tolerance and acceptance to their non-queer audiences, which is necessary to maintain and progress LGBTQ+ rights. I try to make something that could do a similar thing for somebody else that Buffy or Elliott Smith did for me.”
For the film’s two queer-identifying stars, Lundy-Paine and Smith, that experience also rings true.
You two are in sexual love.’ I’m going to say the thing that would’ve never actually been said on the set of this TV show, but it needs to ring loudly from that. It’s one of the only moments the character finds ease. And TV Glow feels like it could be a piece of art like that for a future generation. The movie hits like 2023s spectacular Everything Everywhere All At Once or even Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Perhaps it’s stupid to think about transition in any measurable capacity, especially when TV Glow doesn’t bother qualifying what is or isn’t enough to be trans, but I wanted something concrete-ish. That was until shortly after I watched the film, I was given news that my mom was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.
As previously discussed, the two main characters use The Pink Opaque to escape their lives. It is conveyed through whimsey, haunting visuals, and stellar performances. Plus Caroline Polachek’s “Starburned and Unkissed” will make you wish for more. I was drawn to a lot of children’s horror like Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Lundy-Paine remembers loving things like SpongeBob SquarePants and Emily The Strange, but creating their own worlds was where they really felt home. Owen’s desperation in searching for an answer through those models reminded me a lot of my young self and that brought me back to those feelings. And this film, you don’t understand it logically; you feel it,” he says.
The first time I had a doctor’s appointment, years ago, I was too scared of the world to actually go through with anything, but because of I Saw the TV Glow that mindset shifted.