{ "id": "ep55gjjyb6", "slug": "i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024-film", "title": "I Saw the TV Glow (2024 film)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror", "label": "Horror films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films", "label": "Psychological horror films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films.psychological-horror-films-2010s-and-lat", "label": "Psychological horror films, 2010s and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films.psychological-horror-films-2010s-and-lat" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films", "label": "United States · 2021 and later: Psychological horror films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films", "path": [ { "id": "geo.us", "label": "United States", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021", "label": "United States · 2021 and later", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror", "label": "Horror films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror" }, { "id": "geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films", "label": "Psychological horror films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.us.t2021.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films" } ] } ], "excerpt": "I Saw the TV Glow is a 2024 A24 psychological horror drama written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, starring Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine. A Sundance-premiering trans allegory about teens obsessed with the show The Pink Opaque, it earned an 85% Tomatometer, a Metascore of 86, and six Spirit Award nominations.", "snippet": "I Saw the TV Glow is a 2024 A24 psychological horror drama written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, starring Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine. A Sundance-premiering trans allegory about teens obsessed with the show The Pink Opaque, it earned an 85% Tomatometer, a Metascore of 86, and six Spirit Award nominations.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.horror.psychological-horror-films.psychological-horror-films-2010s-and-lat", "markdown": "# I Saw the TV Glow (2024 film)\n\n**I Saw the TV Glow** is a 2024 American psychological horror drama written and directed by [Jane Schoenbrun](https://www.edgepedia.org/jane-schoenbrun), in which a suburban teenager's obsession with a late-night television series blurs the boundary between fiction and his own repressed identity. It stars [Justice Smith](https://www.edgepedia.org/justice-smith) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (listed on A24's site as Jack Haven), with Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, and [Fred Durst](https://www.edgepedia.org/fred-durst) in supporting roles.[1](https://a24films.com/films/i-saw-the-tv-glow) • [2](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-saw-the-tv-glow/) The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024, opened in United States theaters on May 3, 2024, and expanded wide on May 17.[3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymDzCgPwj0) • [4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvukAkb7C7c)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director and writer | Jane Schoenbrun, their second narrative feature, following *We're All Going to the World's Fair* (2021)[5](https://time.com/6974710/i-saw-the-tv-glow-ending-explained/) |\n| Release | Sundance premiere January 2024; US theaters May 3, 2024; wide May 17; streaming June 14, 2024[3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymDzCgPwj0) • [6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_saw_the_tv_glow) |\n| Cast | Justice Smith (Owen), Brigette Lundy-Paine (Maddy), Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst[1](https://a24films.com/films/i-saw-the-tv-glow) • [2](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-saw-the-tv-glow/) |\n| Reception | 85% on Rotten Tomatoes (238 reviews); Metascore 86 from 48 critics, 90% positive[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_saw_the_tv_glow) • [2](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-saw-the-tv-glow/) |\n| Box office and rating | $4.5 million US gross; 1h 40m; PG-13 for violent content, some sexual material, thematic elements, and teen smoking[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_saw_the_tv_glow) |\n| Awards | Six Film Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, and Best Screenplay[7](https://apnews.com/article/ccde253bba6b2353766f23bb3471093a) |\n| Production | Produced by Emma Stone, Dave McCary, Ali Herting, Sam (Luca) Intili, and Sarah Winshall for A24[8](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/jane-schoenbrun-i-saw-the-tv-glow-interview) • [9](https://www.nj.gov/njfilm/assets/pdf/annual/NJ-motion-picture-annual-report-2022.pdf) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot and central device\n\nThe story begins in 1996, when the lonely teenager Owen (played as a child by Ian Foreman) meets Maddy, a slightly older schoolmate, in a dark corner of the high school cafeteria while their parents vote in the 1996 election. Maddy introduces him to *The Pink Opaque*, a late-night supernatural series too scary for children, and Owen begins watching it at her house, lying to his parents about sleepovers.[10](https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/288620/files/TheDailyCalifornian_20240516.pdf) • [11](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/i-saw-the-tv-glow-review-uk-release-b2585255.html)\n\n*The Pink Opaque* is styled as a late-1990s young adult series, complete with a 4:3 aspect ratio and the lowered video quality of pre-high-definition television. It follows two teenage heroines, Isabel (Helena Howard) and Tara (Lindsey Jordan), who communicate telepathically across their county and battle monsters orchestrated by the series villain Mr. Melancholy, a moon-faced figure drawn from [Georges Méliès](https://www.edgepedia.org/georges-melies)'s imagery in *A Trip to the Moon* (1902).[5](https://time.com/6974710/i-saw-the-tv-glow-ending-explained/) • [12](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/) • [11](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/i-saw-the-tv-glow-review-uk-release-b2585255.html) Critics have described the show-within-the-film as a mix of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* and *Twin Peaks*.[11](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/i-saw-the-tv-glow-review-uk-release-b2585255.html)\n\nAs the years pass, the show is canceled, and the boundary between reality and fiction blurs: Owen and Maddy are no longer sure whether the characters on screen are fictional or versions of themselves. Maddy treats the show as a portal to a more authentic self and proposes a transformation; Owen denies the possibility, saying, \"This isn't the midnight realm. It's just the suburbs.\" The film follows Owen into adulthood, where he re-watches the show on streaming and finds that nothing is what it seemed, ending on a dour note as he walks through an arcade.[12](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/) • [13](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/i-saw-tv-glow-second-look-review-jane-schoenbruns-1990s-horror-cracks-open-radically-disturbing-space-between-realities) • [14](https://apnews.com/article/adf67ae1212375d0509804ca886b0ba3) • [15](https://www.digest.ugent.be/article/93281/galley/213282/view/) The film never settles whether *The Pink Opaque* is a real world unto itself or just a television show, an uncertainty that Time's analysis identifies as essential to its horror.[5](https://time.com/6974710/i-saw-the-tv-glow-ending-explained/)\n\n## Themes and the trans reading\n\nThe film is widely read as a trans allegory. Schoenbrun, who is trans and non-binary, wrote the script in late 2020, a few months into their own transition, and has called the film a parable of pre-transition, \"radiating adolescent angst and shaking with the tremors of body dysphoria.\"[16](https://apnews.com/article/57814ada7e6eb0a9e29dd60ace7ea40d) In interviews they described the subject as \"the very unpleasant process of committing to throw yourself off a cliff,\" arguing that repression persists because undoing it would change a person's life beyond recognition.[16](https://apnews.com/article/57814ada7e6eb0a9e29dd60ace7ea40d)\n\nSchoenbrun deliberately avoided direct representation, building instead what they call a transgender visual language: dissociation and dysphoria are embodied through television static, the titular \"TV glow,\" a flickering ambient wrongness that is also, in their words, sort of beautiful.[12](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/) They chose not to clarify Owen's gender identity in the film, a decision they felt validated after a screening at the [University of Southern California](https://www.edgepedia.org/university-of-southern-california).[17](https://au.variety.com/2024/film/news/i-saw-the-tv-glow-jane-schoenbrun-interview-owen-trans-2-13744/) The director has also framed the film more broadly, saying it addresses a wider patchwork of experiences including being an outsider, suburbia, teen friendship, and nostalgia; the villain, in their reading, is ultimately the gaze on the characters, the controlling look of Mr. Melancholy staring down from the sky.[12](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/)\n\nNostalgia functions with a double edge. The film lovingly recreates pre-digital viewing culture, from cathode-ray screens to taped episodes passed between friends, and Schoenbrun has described it as a love letter to the trans kids of the 1990s, who mostly had no media made for them and relied on accidental discoveries that resonated with their queerness.[13](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/i-saw-tv-glow-second-look-review-jane-schoenbruns-1990s-horror-cracks-open-radically-disturbing-space-between-realities) • [18](https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/11/jane-schoenbrun-interview-i-saw-tv-glow-movie) But the arc of the relationship between characters and screens moves, in Schoenbrun's description, from something offering a hint of liberation to something more like a prison, an addictive process that eventually leaves a person empty.[12](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/)\n\n## Production and style\n\nSchoenbrun arrived at the project on the heels of *[We're All Going to the World's Fair](https://www.edgepedia.org/were-all-going-to-the-worlds-fair)*, a micro-budget film produced mostly single-handedly; *TV Glow* marked an advance to a larger crew, a cast audiences would recognize, and the marketing resources of a distributor, yet it kept the closeness of the earlier film.[19](https://sightlines.media/film/858017/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024) [Emma Stone](https://www.edgepedia.org/emma-stone) and [Dave McCary](https://www.edgepedia.org/dave-mccary), who run the production company Fruit Tree, leapt on the newcomer's next project after Schoenbrun's debut.[20](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/jane-schoenbrun-finds-horror-close-to-home) Filming took place in New Jersey in July and August under the working production banner Fruit Tree/Pink Opaque LLC/Smudge Films/A24.[9](https://www.nj.gov/njfilm/assets/pdf/annual/NJ-motion-picture-annual-report-2022.pdf)\n\nCinematographer [Eric Yue](https://www.edgepedia.org/eric-yue), born in Queens, built the film's saturated, candy-colored look with Schoenbrun, jokingly calling it the \"Goosebumps palette.\" The pair drew on [Joel Schumacher](https://www.edgepedia.org/joel-schumacher)'s *Batman* films for their heightened hyperreal world and on [Krzysztof Kieślowski](https://www.edgepedia.org/krzysztof-kieslowski)'s *Blue* (1993) for images refracted through glassware and marbles. Yue worked with ARRI on camera tests to create the 1990s television-static lighting effect that punctuates key moments, and a light placed inside a fish tank motivated one of the film's signature images.[21](https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/eric-yue-i-saw-the-tv-glow/) • [12](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/)\n\nThe soundtrack was personally curated by Schoenbrun and has what GQ described as an intimate, scrapbook quality; [Phoebe Bridgers](https://www.edgepedia.org/phoebe-bridgers) and [Caroline Polachek](https://www.edgepedia.org/caroline-polachek) both contributed, and Bridgers appears in a musical interlude that [Sight and Sound](https://www.edgepedia.org/sight-and-sound) compared to David Lynch's expressionistic use of music.[22](https://www.gq.com/story/i-saw-the-tv-glow) • [8](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/jane-schoenbrun-i-saw-the-tv-glow-interview) • [13](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/i-saw-tv-glow-second-look-review-jane-schoenbruns-1990s-horror-cracks-open-radically-disturbing-space-between-realities)\n\n## Reception\n\nThe film premiered at Sundance 2024 to admiring reviews across the board and became one of the most written-about American independent films of the year, appearing on numerous year-end lists and generating a large body of essayistic criticism centered on the trans reading and the film's use of nostalgia.[19](https://sightlines.media/film/858017/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024) • [23](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/i-saw-tv-glow-rough-portrait-fanatical-obsession) On Rotten Tomatoes it holds 85% from 238 reviews, and its Metacritic metascore of 86 from 48 critics falls under \"universal acclaim,\" with 90% positive, 10% mixed, and no negative reviews; The New York Times praised Schoenbrun's storytelling for weaving half-remembered childhood elements together the way they might turn up in a nightmare.[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_saw_the_tv_glow) • [2](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-saw-the-tv-glow/)\n\nAudience response was more divided than critical response. The Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter stands at 71% from over 100 verified ratings, and Metacritic's user score is 6.3 based on 250 ratings, with 58% positive, 20% mixed, and 22% negative; the CineGraph aggregator labels the film a \"polarizer\" on this gap.[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_saw_the_tv_glow) • [2](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-saw-the-tv-glow/) • [24](https://cinegraph.org/movies/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024) Some dissenting critics found the film muddled or hollow at its core, with Slant Magazine calling it \"a mesmeric but frequently muddled exploration of transgender self-actualization.\"[2](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-saw-the-tv-glow/) • [25](https://chicagofilm.com/2024/05/i-saw-the-tv-glow-style-not-substance-in-hollow-tale-of-obsession-and-repression/)\n\nAt the Film Independent Spirit Awards the film received six nominations, tying *Anora* for the most, including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, and the Producers Award.[7](https://apnews.com/article/ccde253bba6b2353766f23bb3471093a) • [26](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/PressReleasesSA/2025_SA_NomineeRelease_020425.pdf) It was also a Hugo Awards finalist in the dramatic presentation category.[27](https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-Voting-Ballot.pdf)\n\n## Cultural footprint\n\nSightlines describes the film as the defining trans allegory of its era, adopted with intensity by its fandom, and credits the discourse around it, including the nickname \"the egg crack movie\" (\"egg\" being slang for a trans person before coming out), with making Schoenbrun a prominent new queer voice in American film.[19](https://sightlines.media/film/858017/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024) • [12](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/) Schoenbrun has expressed the hope that the film can be meaningful without becoming a substitute for living: \"I don't want kids rewatching I Saw the TV Glow for the next 20 years instead of transitioning, if that's the choice.\"[28](https://www.papermag.com/jane-schoenbrun-tv-glow) Schoenbrun's subsequent projects include a Netflix television adaptation of the 1990s graphic novel *Black Hole*, which they called a lifelong dream project, and the queer slasher *Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma*, which premiered at Cannes.[29](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/horror-shows/hit-90s-graphic-novel-series-is-getting-turned-into-a-tv-show-by-i-saw-the-tv-glow-director-and-were-ready-for-all-the-nsfw-body-horror/) • [30](https://apnews.com/article/1586772bced9cf6f3ca00cb30694d1d7)\n\n## References\n\n1. [I Saw The TV Glow, A24 official film page](https://a24films.com/films/i-saw-the-tv-glow)\n2. [I Saw the TV Glow Reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/i-saw-the-tv-glow/)\n3. [I Saw The TV Glow | Official Trailer HD | A24, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymDzCgPwj0)\n4. [I Saw The TV Glow | Official Featurette | A24, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvukAkb7C7c)\n5. [Making Sense of I Saw The TV Glow's Tragic and Terrifying Ending, Time](https://time.com/6974710/i-saw-the-tv-glow-ending-explained/)\n6. [I Saw the TV Glow, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_saw_the_tv_glow)\n7. ['Anora,' 'I Saw the TV Glow' lead Spirit Award nominations, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/ccde253bba6b2353766f23bb3471093a)\n8. [You've Never Seen a Movie Like 'I Saw the TV Glow', Vanity Fair](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/jane-schoenbrun-i-saw-the-tv-glow-interview)\n9. [New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Development 2022 Annual Report](https://www.nj.gov/njfilm/assets/pdf/annual/NJ-motion-picture-annual-report-2022.pdf)\n10. [\"I Saw the TV Glow,\" The Daily Californian, May 16, 2024](https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/288620/files/TheDailyCalifornian_20240516.pdf)\n11. [I Saw the TV Glow review, The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/i-saw-the-tv-glow-review-uk-release-b2585255.html)\n12. [Interview: Jane Schoenbrun on I Saw the TV Glow, Film Comment](https://www.filmcomment.com/interview-jane-schoenbrun-on-i-saw-the-tv-glow/)\n13. [I Saw the TV Glow second look review, Sight and Sound, BFI](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/i-saw-tv-glow-second-look-review-jane-schoenbruns-1990s-horror-cracks-open-radically-disturbing-space-between-realities)\n14. [Movie Review: Bold, audacious 'I Saw the TV Glow', AP News](https://apnews.com/article/adf67ae1212375d0509804ca886b0ba3)\n15. [I Saw the TV Glow, Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, Ghent University](https://www.digest.ugent.be/article/93281/galley/213282/view/)\n16. ['I Saw the TV Glow' is one of 2024's buzziest films, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/57814ada7e6eb0a9e29dd60ace7ea40d)\n17. ['I Saw the TV Glow': Jane Schoenbrun interview, Variety](https://au.variety.com/2024/film/news/i-saw-the-tv-glow-jane-schoenbrun-interview-owen-trans-2-13744/)\n18. ['I want to make movies for my people': Jane Schoenbrun interview, The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/11/jane-schoenbrun-interview-i-saw-tv-glow-movie)\n19. [I Saw the TV Glow (2024): analysis, influences and similar films, Sightlines](https://sightlines.media/film/858017/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024)\n20. [Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home, The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/jane-schoenbrun-finds-horror-close-to-home)\n21. [Eric Yue / I Saw the TV Glow, British Cinematographer](https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/eric-yue-i-saw-the-tv-glow/)\n22. [I Saw the TV Glow Is an Instant Cult Classic, GQ](https://www.gq.com/story/i-saw-the-tv-glow)\n23. [I Saw the TV Glow review: distorted fandom, Sight and Sound, BFI](https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/i-saw-tv-glow-rough-portrait-fanatical-obsession)\n24. [I Saw the TV Glow, Cinegraph](https://cinegraph.org/movies/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024)\n25. [I Saw the TV Glow: Style, Not Substance, ChicagoFilm](https://chicagofilm.com/2024/05/i-saw-the-tv-glow-style-not-substance-in-hollow-tale-of-obsession-and-repression/)\n26. [2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees press release](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/PressReleasesSA/2025_SA_NomineeRelease_020425.pdf)\n27. [2025 Hugo Awards voting ballot](https://seattlein2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-Voting-Ballot.pdf)\n28. [Jane Schoenbrun Talks \"I Saw the TV Glow\", PAPER Magazine](https://www.papermag.com/jane-schoenbrun-tv-glow)\n29. [Hit '90s graphic novel series is getting turned into a TV show by I Saw the TV Glow director, GamesRadar](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/horror-shows/hit-90s-graphic-novel-series-is-getting-turned-into-a-tv-show-by-i-saw-the-tv-glow-director-and-were-ready-for-all-the-nsfw-body-horror/)\n30. [Jane Schoenbrun's queer slasher movie 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' jolts Cannes, AP News](https://apnews.com/article/1586772bced9cf6f3ca00cb30694d1d7)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Horror films (individual works) › Psychological horror films › Psychological horror films, 2010s and later*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024-film", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/i-saw-the-tv-glow-2024-film.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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