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Jane Schoenbrun Saw the TV Glow
The We’re All Going to the World’s Fair director is back at Sundance with a haunting new film about the thin line between fiction and reality.
I Saw the TV Glow feels like a natural outgrowth of Schoenbrun’s earlier Sundance effort, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, which captured the unnerving zeal of a teen’s fascination with an internet Creepypasta challenge. The film stars Justice Smith as Owen, a reserved kid in the 1990s whose mind is blown when a slightly older teen Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) introduces him to The Pink Opaque, a Buffy-esque young adult TV show about two girls who realize they are psychically connected and begin fighting the forces of evil together, with tattoos of ghosts glowing on the back of their necks when their powers come alive. There’s a sequence in this film featuring numbers from Sloppy Jane and Phoebe Bridgers that echoes certain Buffy scenes where the action paused for live performances at the Bronze, a fictional music venue frequented by the show’s characters.
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