I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

[Space Cadet]

3.00 star(s) Rating: 3.00/5 1 Votes

Title: I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Genre: Drama, Horror

Director: Jane Schoenbrun

Cast: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst, Conner O'Malley, Emma Portner, Madaline Riley, Amber Benson, Albert Birney, Michael C. Maronna, Danny Tamberelli, Timothy Allan, Tyler Dean Flores, Elizabeth Scopel, Marlyn Bandiero, Haley Dahl, Raina Block, Bailey Wollowitz, Lily Rothman, Phoebe Bridgers, Kris Esfandiari, Wilson Flores, Thommy Northcut, Julie Lodhy

Release: 2024-01-18

Runtime: 100

Plot: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

 

[Space Cadet]

 

[Billy Talent]

Very hyped for this, Phoebe Bridgers and Snail Mail (Lindsey Erin Jordan) are part of the cast.

 

[Lenny Nero]

Well, it looks like A24 for sure, the jokes are correct, I think they're becoming predictable.



When the soundtrack list comes up, I'm usually all excited, but here I'm like - what's those words, who are these people?

 

[Lenny Nero]

There is much to like here - the 90's setting, starting in '96, precisely when I went to high school, with all the attributes of the era, like VHS tapes and film development, catching airings of a TV show, which is like a more artsy Buffy show, a printed episode guide, etc. The notion that childhood shows seem so much better than they really are, if you rewatch them later, as an adult. The quick passing of time, as if chapters on a DVD are skipped, as one character aptly says.
Then there's an identity crisis, a psychological sickness, and none of it is really explored much. A sad ending that tells us not to be like that character. Overall everyone will draw their own conclusions from it. It's mainly a gay/trans drama I believe, but even a straight guy like me found something interesting to think about in it.