10 Best TV Shows About Wrestling

2. GLOW

Certainly the most stylish and brilliantly acted TV show about wrestling ever made, GLOW is a dramatisation of the 1980s women's wrestling outfit Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW).

Netflix's dramedy series is at once a tribute to the pageantry and spectacle of wrestling and also the struggles faced by a troupe of young women attempting to break into a fundamentally male-dominated industry.

Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, and Marc Maron lead a stellar ensemble cast in a show that so perfectly balances its tone between uproarious character-driven comedy and the genuine ache of women struggling to be seen and heard.

Even if you're not a wrestling fan there's a lot on offer here, but if you are - and, reading this, you almost certainly are - it becomes unmissable prestige TV.

Though GLOW was originally renewed for a fourth and final season, pandemic-related shutdowns infuriatingly caused it to be unceremoniously cancelled, robbing fans of a concrete conclusion.

Even so, that does nothing to detract from the brilliance packed into those three seasons we got.