

And what percentage of their existing Netflix Original series with LGBTQ+ characters and content remains after the slaughter. I’d be reeeeeaal curious to see what proportion of their recently cancelled Original shows are shows with prominent, explicitly LGBTQ+ characters and storylines. Valerie, who writes for esteemed queer website Autostraddle dot com, summed it up thusly: “The Outer Banks was the worst show I’ve watched in quarantine and Teenage Bounty Hunters was one of the best shows I’ve watched in the past year and I know it’s not necessarily fair to compare them/i’m just one person with opinions but i’m angry That Outer Banks and their heterosexual nonsense got renewed but TBH didn’t.” Hetflix calm down, look at your life choices Netflix getting this ruthless with its cancellations, even necessarily Amid Pandemic, feels like the true end of an era
#Save teenage bounty hunters tv#
AND I WANTED TO SEE BETTY GILPIN HEAD UP A TV NETWORK. But I'm so sad about GLOW, bc I fell for that show the minute I saw the pilot-so bold, warped and goofy, and yet, so emotionally sharp & realistic about the 1980s for women. I try not to get too upset about cancellations. Unclear if this has extended to the crew. Please vote.”Īll of the actors have been paid for Season Four although only one episode completed filming prior to COVID’s shut-down.

We’ll miss our cast of weirdo clowns and our heroic crew. But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again. There’s a lot of shitty things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW. COVID also apparently took down our show. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. In a statement to Deadline, co-creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch told Deadline: They have however found the money to keep up with Stranger Things. because “resuming GLOW production under COVID safety protocols proved too difficult, not only because of the close physical contact necessary for so many of the show’s scenes, but also because of its large cast and the difficulty of filming in Los Angeles right now.” The budget increase to make this feasible was apparently a hard “no” from Netflix. This comes shortly after Netflix’s cancellation of I Am Not Okay With This, which had a queer tomboy lead.ĭespite its Season 4 renewal, Netflix has backed out of completing G.L.O.W. Also on the docket for death is Teenage Bounty Hunters, which is also gay and involves women doing physical harm to others but in a funny way.
