Olympo joins long, long list of LGBTQ+ shows axed in 2025: ‘My last straw’
Netflix has cancelled its queer-inclusive sports drama Olympo after just one season. (Netflix)
Netflix has cancelled its queer-inclusive sports drama Olympo after just one season. (Netflix)
Olympo, the new, queer-inclusive Netflix drama from the creators of long-running LGBTQ+ series Elite, has been cancelled after just one season.
Despite the first season of the Spanish-language sports drama series dropping just six months ago in June 2025, Netflix has confirmed that there are no plans for a second season.
Olympo focussed on young talented sports stars attending the Pirineos High Performance Centre, where they would train in hopes of reaching the Olympics.
The series kicked off with competitive swimmer Núria (María Romanillos) collapsing in the school swimming pool while trying to beat her competitor Amaia (Clara Galle), with the rest of the season exploring the extreme lengths young athletes go to in order to reach their dreams.
Along the way, the students at the school became embroiled in numerous, sizzling relationships, including a number of steamy queer romances.
Real-life former Uruguay rugby player Agustín Della Corte played Roque Pérez in the series, a gay rugby player who enters into a risky relationship with his teammate, Sebas Sendón (Juan Perales).
Olympo also featured sapphic representation in the form of bisexual heptathlete Zoe Moral (Nira Osahia) and intersex representation through fellow heptathlete Renara Aguilera (Andy Duato).
The series was a particular hit for fans of fellow queer, Spanish-language teen drama Elite, which ran for eight seasons between 2018 and 2024.
Considering Elite’s healthy run time, fans of Olympo are shocked – and pretty furious – that it has been canned just six months after its release.
“Olympo having a cast full of talented people and stories that were fully developed p***es me off so much, like I need to know what happens between Zoe and Renata, both as a couple and individually,” raged one fan on X, formerly Twitter. “At least give us some closure. Netflix is a mess,” they added.
“They didn’t even give the show a chance,” lamented a second fan.
“Olympo being cancelled is my last straw I need DAYS to recover,” cried a third.
“Oh my god will they let literally anything have a season two,” a fourth questioned, while another fan wrote: “Boots and now Olympo?? @netflix get your s**t together… quickly.”
Earlier this month, it was confirmed that Netflix had cancelled queer military drama Boots, starring 13 Reasons Why actor Miles Heizer, after just one season. The cancellation came as a shock to both its stars and fans, considering it had been a sleeper hit for the streaming giant and maintained an impressive 90 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
A host of other queer shows have been cancelled across streaming platforms this year, including Laverne Cox’s critically acclaimed trans comedy Clean Slate, Brian Jordan Alvarez’s comedy English Teacher and Matt Bomer’s comedy Mid-Century Modern.
Other queer inclusive shows including Andor and And Just Like That… also aired their final seasons in 2025.
According to LGBTQ+ media monitoring organisation GLAAD, four in ten LGBTQ+ characters who appeared on screen between June 2024 and May 2025 will not be returning to screens in 2026.
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