Director of 'I Saw The TV Glow' Wants to Make Things With a 'Lingering Power'
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If you grew up during the era when appointment television was still a thing, and your life revolved around passionately watching a new episode of “your show” every week, then writer/director Jane Schoenbrun’s made a movie just for you.   I Saw the TV Glow is Schoenbrun’s follow-up to their haunting 2021 Sundance release We're All Going to the World's Fair. Glow follows the friendship of social misfits Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and Owen (Justice Smith). Maddy’s the slightly older, intriguing...

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