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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Clarisse Loughrey

I Saw the TV Glow review: A remarkable mystery drama that speaks directly to the trans experience

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I Saw the TV Glow could be the hand on your shoulder that you didn’t know you needed. It’s a film about the things offered by art that could never be articulated within a critic’s review. So, in a way, anything I write beyond this point is defunct. But I’ll do my best. Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up to their 2021 thriller We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a film about how art sometimes knows us before we know ourselves, and how we can spend decades trying to unpick its secrets in the search for a truth we’re maybe too afraid to accept.

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