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VIDEO: CAST OF NETFLIX'S GLOW REUNITES VIRTUALLY, PUSHES FOR GLOW FILM TO PROPERLY END SERIES

The cast of Netflix's canceled GLOW series reunited over the weekend to discuss the end of the series virtually as well as champion the fan base to push for a final film to close out the show, which had season four canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic after one episode had been filmed in February for what was planned to be the series' final run around the bases:

The cast is asking the audience to use #SAVEGLOW via social media and even go old school with physical letters asking the streaming service to order something to officially wrap up the series in some way for fans.

It was announced on 10/5 that the critically acclaimed series would not be returning.

"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 said in a statement to Deadline that day. “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 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.”

Netflix later issued the following statement - "We've made the difficult decision not to do a fourth season of GLOW due to COVID, which makes shooting this physically intimate show with its large ensemble cast especially challenging  We are so grateful to creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, Jenji Kohan and all the writers, cast and crew for sharing this story about the incredible women of GLOW with us and the world."T

Betty Gilpin, who played Liberty Bell on the series, was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series the 2020 Emmy Awards, the second year in a row that Gilpin received that honor.  GLOW also received nominations in two additional categories kin the 2020 Emmys for Outstanding Production design for a narrative program (half-hour) for the episode "Up, Up, Up" and Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama (Half-Hour) for the episode "The Libertines."    Those nomination were from the show's third, now final season.

GLOW, based on the 1980s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling troupe and TV series, scored two Emmy wins in 2018   GLOW's Stunt Coordinator Shauna Duggins won the Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or Variety Program, becoming the first woman in history to score the accolade since it was instituted in 2002.  The series also captured the Emmy for Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less).  The series was nominated for seven other Emmys that year as well.  

In 2019, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy or Variety Program.  That year, the series was also nominated for Emmys in Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series (Non-Prosthetic), Outstanding Hairstyling for a Single-Camera Series and Outstanding Period Costumes.

Over the course of it's lifespan, the series won 3 Emmys and scored 18 nominations total.

GLOW told the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Brie) a struggling actress in Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s hired to become one of the stars of GLOW, a fledgling women's wrestling series.  Unfortunately, Ruth must compete with her former best friend Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin), a former soap actress. Meanwhile, world-weary washed-up film director Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron) has to create, train and maintain this eclectic troupe of women while trying to get the series off the ground.   

The first season of the series, a fictional period piece set in the 1980s based on the original David McLane Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling promotion, was named the Best TV series of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly.   Among those featured in the cast were AEW's Kia "Awesome Kong" Stevens, who consistently steals her scenes as Tamme Dawson aka The Welfare Queen and delivered an amazing performance in the fourth episode of Season Two.  In 2018, that episode was named by Entertainment Weekly as the best TV episode of any series that year.

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