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. 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. 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.īecause “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. It’s a national tragedy and should be our focus. Netflix has decided not to finish filming the final season of GLOW.ĬOVID also apparently took down our show. We were handed the creative freedom to make a complicated comedy about women and tell their stories. There’s a lot of shitty things happening in the world that are much bigger than this right now. Even when taking this into consideration, “First Kill” still did as good and arguably better than “Heartstopper.But it still sucks that we don’t get to see these 15 women in a frame together again. However, it should be taken into consideration that “Heartstopper” is a total of four hours long, and “First Kill” is a total of eight hours long. “Heartstopper” had 23,940,000 hours of viewership when they released the series while “ First Kill” received 48,770,000 hours of viewership. The best example of this is “ Heartstopper” being renewed for two additional seasons and “ First Kill” being canceled after one. But it is more difficult to market sapphic shows towards straight men that fetishize lesbian women or the ‘male gaze’ because of the backlash they can receive. Gay and man-loving man (MLM) shows have a higher change of being renewed for a second season because streaming services are able to market a show toward straight women that fetishize gay men. ![]() Show after show, they never live to see a second season-” First Kill.” “Everything Sucks.” “Away.” “The Vagrant Queen.” “Teenage Bounty Hunters.” “I Am Not Okay with This.” “Resident Evil.” Netflix is notorious for canceling shows that have an explicitly open lesbian character as a lead or when there is an explicit lesbian relationship. LGBTQ+ people only want to find characters which they can relate to, but Netflix only seems interested in profiting off of their exploitation. Queerbaiting is not representation-it is disgusting and upsetting. Fans were quick to call Netflix out on queerbaiting and hiding tweets to cover up their queerbaiting. However, when the show aired, it was revealed that Wednesday had two male love interests and Enid had one herself. On social media platforms, fans were convinced that ‘WENCLAIR’, the ship name for Wednesday and Enid, was going to be an endgame or a prominent aspect of the overarching plot. Queer viewers were excited to finally see the suggested sapphic relationship on-screen after the previous months of promotion. In order to promote it, Netflix hosted a drag show and posted a billboard that suggested the possibility of Wednesday being part of the queer community. On November 23, “ Wednesday” aired for the first time on Netflix. Queerbaiting is a marketing and advertising technique used by the entertainment industry where the creator heavily implies at the possibility of a queer relationship and/or queer representation but never follows through on these allusions. (Netflix)Īs the community has taken a larger, albeit still miniscule, position within media, a new problem has arrived in response to LGBTQ+ youths’ desire for representation-queerbaiting. Wednesday drag show hosted by Netflix to advertise their new show. ![]() ![]() Alternatively, people rely on movies, shows and more to reflect themselves and what communities construct their being. ![]() This development has led to a constant dependence on media for representations to base such opinions on. Our lives revolve around media, the content it generates typically becoming a reflection of our own opinions, thoughts and actions. Resident Evil.Īs the core constituent of our identity, the media has inundated our society with influence so prominent that it has become a root or factor in nearly every modern life. Lesbian leads of the following shows that were cancelled by Netflix before a second season: Everything Sucks. Original Images: Netflix / Edit: Judith Carrizales
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