I Saw the TV Glow

Owen and Maddy meet over a late-night show that feels more exact than the suburb. Schoenbrun lights the film like a cathode tube: pink, then too dark. Justice Smith plays Owen as a person who grows up without ever leaving the episode. Brigette Lundy-Paine’s Maddy comes back with a theory the show was not a show. The A24 trailer is The Pink Opaque. The film is the years after the series is canceled and the set is still on.