Netflix Cancels Glow Season 4, Teenage Bounty Hunters

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For those waiting impatiently for the fourth and final season of Glow, bad news: the Netflix original is the latest to have been body-slammed by the streaming platform — and the pandemic.

Netflix’s female wrestling dramedy starring Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Marc Maron, was nearly three weeks into filming when it halted production in mid-March due to COVID-19. The show was beloved by fans and critics — 15 Emmy nominations and 3 wins — so it's cancellation is a huge upset. Still, series creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch have tried to maintain perspective.

“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,” Flahive and Mensch told Deadline. “We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. And wrestle. And now that’s gone. There’s a lot of shitty 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.”

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Glow is the latest of a slew of female-led shows to be canceled by Netflix due to pandemic-related concerns. In August, teen dramas The Society and I Am Not Okay With This were both canceled, despite being renewed for second seasons. Both starred young women. Along with GLOW, the streaming platform also cancelled Teenage Bounty Hunters — about two badass 16-year-old fraternal twin sisters Sterling (Maddie Phillips) and Blair (Anjelica Bette Fellini) Wesley who join a veteran bounty hunter to help him do his bidding — after just one season.

There may be a scenario post-pandemic where some of the shows get resurrected, but for now, fans are both outraged and mourning the loss of these beloved series, which all boasted complex characters, many of which are absent from mainstream shows.

So is @netflix strategy to go “hmmm what is a show people like that’s telling unique stories from a lot of different kinds of people? Because it’s CANCELED”. #GLOW #TheSociety https://t.co/zGOSIeVLLq
— Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. (@corvidresearch) October 5, 2020

I'm absolutely sick over this. #teenagebountyhunters was one of the greatest shows in years and came with surprise lesbian representation twist not spoiled in trailers. And now that wonderful surprise is gone. Killed same day as #GLOW. Netflix hates 💜. https://t.co/y7likk0zlB
— 🦎👱‍♀️🍳☀ (@DrewsClues) October 5, 2020

I can't believe @Netflix canceled Teenage Bounty Hunters... All I've read are good reviews and it's such a loveable show. The cast has amazing chemistry and even after one season the fandom felt like such a close-knit family already 🥺 HOW DARE THEY CANCEL SUCH INCLUSIVE CONTENT
— Elke ミ☆ (@biclexual) October 5, 2020

They canceled GLOW? What the fuck?
— Haleigh Barchard (@bringthatup) October 5, 2020

FUUUUUUCKKK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU https://t.co/JHKYsfh0hE
— Kate Halliwell (@katehalliwell) October 5, 2020

i’m gonna tweet my anger about #GLOW being canceled by using gifs from the show because i am absolutely GUTTED pic.twitter.com/LLHsO79n0o
— ᴮᴱ🥺📼⁷ (@chimmyluvr7) October 5, 2020

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