Spoilers for Season 2 of “GLOW” follow.

Netflix’s “GLOW,” about a women’s wrestling TV program in the 1980s, is a sharp, insightful comedy. But a subplot in the new season’s fifth episode begins more like a horror story — one we’ve seen described repeatedly over the past year, in the revelations about Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood predators.

Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie) gets an exciting call: The head of the TV network, Tom Grant (Paul Fitzgerald), wants to have dinner with her to discuss her career. They make an appointment at a restaurant. A hotel restaurant. Where, when Ruth arrives, the host directs her to Tom’s bungalow. “Mr. Grant always takes dinner meetings in his room,” he says.

Glen Klitnick (Andrew Friedman) — an executive at the local station that airs the wrestling show — meets Ruth and Tom in the room but quickly leaves to “grab a couple menus.” Tom suggests that acting on a wrestling show must not be “quite what you had in mind for yourself.” Then he suggests that Ruth show him “a move or two.”

In the process, he’s showing us his own moves — the signature playbook of serial predation, as refined and choreographed as any staged back flip.