Alison Brie Gets Into The Ring For Netflix Wrestling Series G.L.O.W.
Alison Brie has stayed busy since the end of Community, appearing in tons of indie films and providing voice work for video games and Netflix's BoJack Horseman. But now she's secured her return to live-action comedy on the small screen, and she's reuniting with Netflix for the show: Deadline reports she'll star in G.L.O.W., a series executive produced by Orange is the New Black's Jenji Kohan (another Netflix connection!) that's created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.
G.L.O.W. was inspired by the real story of the 1980s female wrestling league. Set in Los Angeles and showcasing big hair and body slams, the series tells the fictionalized story of Ruth (Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress who finds one last attempt to live her dreams when she’s thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women’s wrestling via a weekly series about female wrestlers.
The Reagan-era female wrestling league G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling), a female answer to the male-dominated World Wrestling Federation, was showcased in the eponymous kitschy, Las Vegas-based syndicated TV series, which ran for four seasons, featuring sketches, songs and wrestling.
Kohan has been killing it with Orange is the New Black, and Brie definitely has the chops to pull off the comedic aspects of this premise. I do wonder if she'll have the physicality to get in the ring and wreck some people, but based on this intro, I'm not sure that was ever actually the reason for this league to exist: