‘I Saw The TV Glow’ Review – Within The Spectrums Of Time, Gender, And Fear
As a society, we’ve entered a stage that encourages and rewards the fascination and obsession of television shows. We live firmly within a world of streaming ongoing and limited series where talk of theories and open admissions of confession for allegiance to characters are commonplace. We explore our ideological differences within the pattern of characters in these shows as well as our similarities, and our explorations can and have often taken us to thoughts of our own identities, from notions of pure personality, gender, or even the overtly sexual. Are our favorite characters living their life the way I should be? How can I be more like them? At what point does the “me” that came before cease to become authentic? These questions have always been at the forefront of the minds of the self-conscious. As someone who has experienced extreme discomfort surrounding their physical appearance, I’ve struggled with this specific discordance that now is named dysphoria. Something I once represe...