You Can Now Watch I Saw the TV Glow in the Glow of Your Own TV

If you missed retired connected seeing writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s neon-infused nightmare I Saw the TV Glow successful theaters, you tin present ticker one of the year’s astir unsocial and haunting fearfulness films astatine home—which whitethorn adjacent heighten its enchanted-by-the-boob-tube effects.

Starting today, I Saw the TV Glow is disposable to rent oregon bargain connected each the accustomed platforms; there’ll beryllium a Blu-ray merchandise coming from A24 July 30. It’s a escaped companion portion to Schoenbrun’s 2021 diagnostic We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, astir a lonely teen who becomes enmeshed successful a viral net stunt that begins to change her reality. I Saw the TV Glow is likewise media-fixated; it follows a brace of friends (Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine) who enslaved arsenic teens implicit a shared obsession with a cult TV show, The Pink Opaque. As we travel them done the years, their fandom becomes a mode to flight into fantasy... but it starts to consciousness similar it’s not a fantasy, and that possibly The Pink Opaque has shifted from nostalgic amusement into thing some liberating and highly sinister.

I Saw the TV Glow co-stars Ian Foreman and Helena Howard, with Fred Durst (yes, that Fred Durst, successful a menacing, astir wordless relation that someway doesn’t consciousness similar stunt casting) and Danielle Deadwyler.

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