Marc Maron is dropping Glow spoilers, but Alison Brie won’t
Alison Brie is staying mostly mum on Glow's unfinished final season, but Marc Maron has spoiled a major plot point
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Many still mourn the untimely cancellation of Glow on Netflix, cutting the show off at the knees before it could commence with its planned finale. Nowadays a cancellation like that is all too common, but at the time it stung deeply, particularly for those involved. Star Alison Brie has referred to it as “the great heartbreak of my career,” but she’s still kept the fourth season’s secrets under lock and key, unlike some co-stars she could name. (It’s Marc Maron.)
During a Q&A moderated by The A.V. Club, Brie was asked about what the final season of Glow would have looked like. “Well, I’ll tell you that my husband was recently on Marc Maron’s podcast, and Maron was like, ‘Me and your wife were gonna hook up in the final season you know. We were gonna get together.’ And I was like, ‘Are we telling people that we were gonna get together…?’” She said. “I mean, unofficially, I do think that Sam and Ruth were gonna have some kind of hookup.”
Though Maron may be dropping spoilers, Brie is still reluctant to reveal too much. “It’s hard for me to speculate because I actually know everything that was gonna happen. Before we started shooting the fourth season, our showrunners told me the whole story for the season. And we were already going into it thinking it was our final season, and I was in tears by the end of their season-long synopsis,” she explained. “And I don’t know why I feel nervous sharing it, like, the show is dead. She’s dead! And I have heard no rumors about people rallying behind that to bring it back. But for some reason I’m like, should I just tell you everything?”
Here’s what she was willing to dish: “I do think there was a spin-off network… How did season three end? We were at the airport. I’m like, ‘Okay, it opens on Ruth,’” she teased. “I think that Ruth was gonna go back to her hometown for a little while as if she was gonna maybe quit wrestling, and then get sucked back in, the [usual]. I’ll neither confirm nor deny that that’s the plot of the first episode that we shot that no one will ever see.”
“And then later in the season I think Maron and I were gonna have sex,” she added, before joking: “And we were gonna do it for real. That’s it, the interview’s over, soooo…”
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I miss GLOW. Its cruel early cancellation hurt me so much that it numbed me to every cruel early cancellation that Netflix has dished out since.
What really stung for me is that season 3 really demanded a follow-up. The end of season 2 was just one of the most fantastic crowd-pleasing finales of all time, to the point where I almost wish we never got a season 3 if we can’t have a season 4.
One of their most bullshit cancellations they’ve done. It was popular. Critically acclaimed. Had already greenlit the final season and they were set to film and THEN they cancel it. That’s where the cruelty is. If it was up in the air if they were getting another seasons then that’s one thing, but the fact that we were this close is what hurts
They cancelled because they didn’t have a vaccine for covid at the time of production and considering it was a show about wrestling, people would be coming into close contact. I agree it sucks it got cancelled but hopefully everyone involved with the show is safe now.
I also remember exactly how overwhelming early COVID was and I understand the decision from a logistical point of view of “we have NO idea when we can film it safely.”It hurts—and badly—but I’m not going to pretend that they did it for shits and giggles. They made a call and I think it was the right one. I’d rather sit through this emptiness because I don’t have GLOW rather than “an outbreak happened during filming and there’s no vaccination yet.”
They made the right call not to film at the time, but actual TV networks didn’t kill their darlings. They delayed. They could have waited for GLOW.
It’s definitely hampered the degree to which I get invested in something I see on Netflix, because barring it begin an absolute break out success like Wednesday or Squid Game, it just is not safe.
Yeah. For Netflix shows, even if they sound interesting, I’m more likely to just wait for it to end, even if that’s a couple of years, then decide whether to get invested.
I loved this show, but hated the romance they were setting up between those two.
Yea their dalliance was gross. If that was gonna be the main storyline we are better off.
It’s not a given that it would have been the focus of the season, or even a “romance” per se. Knowing the show, they would probably would have had some drunken, sloppy sex and then instantly regretted it.
I also hated it. But I thought it would have been a useful examination of the ways that Ruth can self-sabotage, especially with dudes. Because CLEARLY it would have been a mistake.
The Ruth-Sam relationship was my least favorite aspect of GLOW by a wide marginMeanwhile Yolanda-Arthie and all of these other electric pairings & potential pairings got crumbs
Apparently Alison Brie is contractually obligated to play women interested in older men who it’s pretty gross for her character to get involved with.
Truly, the potential romance made me want to crawl out of my skin. Their friendship and mutual respect was so nice. Why ruin it?
They were so great just as a Donaghy/Lemon pair.
Yes!
I wouldn’t mind it if they underplayed it, like it was a one time thing and barely a plot point and everyone just moved on
I don’t know how many will care about this and I don’t know how many would even agree, but I miss GLOW as a positive influence on the world of mainstream women’s wrestling. Some idiots claim that Ronda Rousey’s entry into WWE was what boosted women’s wrestling on their main stage but GLOW came out a full year before Rousey was even on the roster. Between GLOW, the women of NXT (especially the Bayley/Sasha feud), and the Mae Young Classic, there was a bigger demand than ever for American women’s wrestling at least a year before anyone even knew that that shithead was gonna show up.Also, Shayna Baszler is what Rousey wishes she could be. You know, a good wrestler with a decent character who can kinda act.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Oh. In that case I’ll take a Dave’s Double with tomato, lettuce, and bacon.
they shot the first episode……
Right? Show us that, and make a 90-minute finale movie, and we’ll all get on with our lives! I promise!
Sounds like Marc Maron really wants us all to know that he gets to kiss Alison Brie. Guess I can’t blame him.
I bet she’s cheesed off.
I don’t think you can spoil plot details of a season of a show that will never exist. Cause to spoil it is to tell peoople what happens before they’ve seen it themselves. And they’ll never be able to.
GLOW and Santa Clarita Diet are the two most infuriating Netflix cancellations I can think of. They can spend a billion dollars on more fucking stranger things, but can’t find a few million to tie up these two critically acclaimed, adored shows.
Right? Santa Clarita Diet was SO good.