I Saw the TV Glow

[School of Movies 2025]

As soon as we saw this thickly atmospheric, Lynchian lucid nightmare from 2024, Sharon and I knew we had to do a very particular show on it. Since the entire context is trans-anxiety which the majority of cisgender people may find impenetrably mystifying we needed an all-trans/enby/non-cis cast of guests to walk us through the significance.

On the surface it is a story about a chap named Owen who is lonely and isolated child of the mid-1990s, meeting lonely, isolated Maddy and bonding over a mutual obsession with a cheesy sci-fi TV show for teenagers called "The Pink Opaque". Beneath that surface there is a whole world of uncertainty, denial, distraction and pain. Strap in, because this one is hard, long and has no relief at the end, culminating in a cautionary tale about running from yourself.

Huge thanks to everyone involved with this quite astonishing endeavour. We buttoned our lips and let these good people talk for the majority of the three hour runtime of this thing.

Guests

• Laura Kate Dale

• Alejandra Vargas

• Aquila Edwards

• Victoria Luna B. Grieve

Plus we have a suite of audio submissions from...

• Austin Wilden

• Rosa Ysassi Serata Villarreal

• Holly Dotson

• and Hanna Peregrine