Television: Gripping GLOW is a contender

The hairspray and fitness gear look is accurate down to the last too-tight shiny leotard

Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin in Netflix’s GLOW

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Television wrestling, with its choreographed pantomime heroes and villains, goes back to the days of black and white TV. The grunt and groan merchants appeared on Irish screens not too long after the invention of Spandex, which came on the market in 1962. From the mid 1960s, ITV began showing British wrestling on Saturday ...