I am not familiar with GLOW. At least I wasn't until the netflix series. I wasn't around in the 80's so I hadn't heard of it. I've looked up some clips and interviews since but haven't seen any show or even a single match. Even though I know little of it, never saw anything from the original show, I can clearly see a lot is missing here. The two main people behind glow (Cimber and Mclane, I believe) are completely absent in this documentary. So they were already starting with a handicap. Most important thing in a documentary is structure though. Even with key people missing it's still possible to tell a compelling story. People not familiar with the subject matter should still be able to follow along and get a good feeling of what glow was about. This one fails. It's just a mess and none of the people involved have anything interesting to say whatsoever. The fictionalised netflix series, even though they it's a dramatization with characters that weren't actually in the original show, still tells a more authentic story than this. If you want to learn about what GLOW was about, at the heart of it, I recommend watching that.
