The women of GLOW play the Secret Santa game. Ruth gets Carmen but Carmen knows it. She wants to do a GLOW version of A Christmas Carol for the last show of the year. Ruth is against it but reluctantly agrees to do it.
Ruth ... Scrooge
Debbie ... the narrator
Bash ... the narrator's son
Jenny ... Tiny Tim
Rhonda ... Bob Crachit
Sheila ... Jacob Marley
Carmen ... ghost of Christmas future
Debbie feels insulted by a comment that Tex makes. He doesn't want her to get involved in his business decisions. She turns the anger she has for him into action and talks Bash into buying a television network. Tex was in negotiations to buy it but the seller wasn't happy with what he was offering.
Bash finds out that Paul, the repair man, was actually a gigolo. He feels lots of pressure and doesn't know what to do. He cries as he confesses all this, including the fact that he enjoyed the three-way with Rhonda and Paul, especially touching Paul, to Debbie.
Keith arrives at the end of the show, dressed as Santa Claus. Cherry didn't know he was coming. Carmen urged him to come out and see Cherry. It is her gift to Cherry. Cherry is very happy to see him. Things are still up in the air between them but after they talk it looks as though they are closer to getting back together.
Everyone exchanges gifts after the show. Arthie announces that she is gay, which doesn't surprise anyone but she felt the need to say it, out loud.
Rhonda apologizes to Bash for lying to him. Bash accepts her apology. He tells her that he wants them to start a family. Bash can't see it, because they are hugging at the time, but Rhonda's facial expression seems to indicate that she isn't ready for that.
Sam and Justine share a Christmas dinner in a diner. She gives him a shirt. He gives her some legal papers. He wants her to be his daughter officially so that she can inherit his stuff in the event something happens to him.
The episode ends at the Las Vegas airport with everyone going their separate ways for the holidays. Carmen tells Debbie and Ruth that she's quitting GLOW. Debbie wants to tell her to stay, she wants to tell her about the deal that she and Bash have cooked up but she's not supposed to tell anyone about it until the deed is done.
Ruth takes off for her flight which is boarding. Debbie runs after her and tells her about the deal. Ruth is stunned and doesn't know what to say. Debbie goes a little too far in hyping the deal and insults Ruth in the process of doing so. Ruth is hurt and promises nothing as she boards her flight. Debbie is left standing at the gate feeling hurt, too.
Thoughts
This was a very busy episode. There were a number of characters who didn't get anything in the way of an arc. There were others that got something but not enough to satisfy me.
This was a good end to the season but I am left wanting more and wishing there had been another episode or two. I wish that they had spent a little more time on some of the odds and ends.
There were a few moments that got me a little choked up. Cherry's reaction to Keith's arrival. Arthie's announcement. Bash and Rhonda's reconciliation. Ruth and Debbie's final moment together.
I'm a little disappointed that Jenny and Melrose didn't get more screen time over the course of the season. Jenny's arc seemed a little one note this season and mostly had to do with her being angry and frustrated over the way some others, especially Melrose, were treating her. Melrose began this relationship with Paul that basically became wallpaper, except for the fact that it also fed into Bash and Rhonda's marital issues.
Debbie seems to have a knack for pissing off Ruth. It is like the shoe is on the other foot now. When the show (Season 1) began it was Debbie who was angry at Ruth.
I'm not satisfied with the way Sam and Justine are off on their own now. I assume that they will bring them back into the fold somehow. Maybe Bash's network will fund the movie.
I like this season but I don't love it. I think I preferred the previous two. I hope I like the next season, which as I understand it will be the last one, more than this one.
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