GLOW is cancelled by Netflix… after production was halted on the fourth and final season

Netflix’s GLOW will not proceed with its fourth and final season as planned after a coronavirus-related production shutdown, according to Deadline.  

The popular series, starring Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin as female professional wrestlers, was initially renewed, then delayed by the ongoing  coronavirus pandemic, before it was cancelled. 

‘COVID has killed actual humans. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. COVID also apparently took down our show. Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW,’ series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch revealed in a statement.  

They added: ‘We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. And wrestle. And now that’s gone,’ the creators added. 

‘There’s a lot of sh*tty things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again.’ 

As Flahive and Mensch noted they will miss their ‘cast of weirdo clowns’ and heroic crew, fans of the critically-acclaimed comedy turned to Twitter to mourn the loss.

‘I’m very disappointed,’ one user wrote. ‘It deserved a finale. All the people who put their souls in this series deserved a finale. We, the fans, deserved a finale.’  

Another disheartened fan pointed out the premature end comes before actresses  Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin had the chance to score Emmy nominations. 

Meanwhile, Betty Gilpin earned three consecutive Emmy nods for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.  

When the actress heard of her third nomination in July 2020, she shared a cheeky statement addressed to the Television Academy. 

‘To the Television Academy — how dare you. I really can’t stress enough how much of a threat this nomination is to my current quarantine brand of pasta and sad,’ she said.  

She continued: ‘In the Time Before, being born with a healthy protective emotional wall missing meant I got to channel that into pretend time in exchange for health insurance and claps.’  

The dramatic scripted series was based on the Eighties wrestling show of the same name, which stands for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.  

The Netflix series has won over fans with its endearing and honest portrayals of being a woman in Hollywood during the Eighties, while exploring social topics that are still relevant today, including misogyny, racism, immigration and homophobia.