This news came out yesterday, but I didn’t want to write about it at the time because Warming Glow was on an awesome streak of tits and bros and face-punching, and I didn’t want to gay up the page with “Glee” news. But three of the show’s main actors — Lea Michele (pictured), Cory Monteith (the quarterback), and Chris Colfer (the gay one) — will leave the show next season when their characters graduate.
Colfer, Michele and Monteith are not going to be back at all for Season 4. [Showrunner Ryan] Murphy tells THR: “You can keep them on the show for six years and people will criticize you for not being realistic, or you can be really true to life and say when they started the show they were very clearly sophomores and they should graduate at the end of their senior year.”
Murphy added that planning for the future beyond high school will be a heavy theme during Season 3, noting that “more characters are leaving than are staying” when graduation time comes at the season’s end.
I’ve definitely taken my shots at “Glee” in the past, but I have to applaud this move. One of my least favorite aspects of shows about high school are the various bullsht ways students end up hanging around the same environment — everyone decides to go to the same college together, or the really smart student ends up going to the community college across the street, or a girl gets bitten by her vampire boyfriend so she can stay a senior forever. F that noise.
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Sticking with another recent WG theme, Kurt Sutter wants you to know you’re a cunt for posting about Glee. Now take a shower and eat some vegan pudding, you greedy media whore.
/did not understand what Sutter was getting at with that line at all
//still blindly supports SoA
Ooh, maybe now they can have more narrative consistency and characters whose behavior doesn’t change wildly from episode to episode.
No? Just a thought.
I always thought the most realistic portrayal of a high school student who was supposed to have graduated and left town but didn’t was Fred O’Bannion.
I’m down for some high school lesbians.
One of my least favorite aspects of shows about high school are the various bullshit ways students end up hanging around the same environment — everyone decides to go to the same college together,
*coughcough*SAVEDBYTHEBELL*coughcough*
*awaits DG’s wrath*
Nah Schmoove, the entire premise of “The College Years” was dumber than Snooki on whippets. Even I’ll admit that. I mean, Zack got a 1502 on his SATs.
Kind of like my least favorite thing about Star Trek. The Enterprise saves the universe every week but nobody EVER gets promoted off that damn ship. And when Chekhov finally did, his ship got blown up and he went right back to his old chair. And when Sulu finally did, they stopped following him. 30 years of service and that’s what you get. Starfleet fucking sucks, man.
“Even I’ll admit that. I mean, Zack got a 1502 on his SATs.”
I heard he scored perfect on his LSATs, too.
This is why I am worried about Community. They are going on year 3 at a 2 year community college.
Has anyone ever watched Glee?
Lea Michelle’s face looks like a fucking wax figure of a demon melting in the microwave when she sings.
It is disturbing.
GiantCrab, As someone who took 5 years to complete community college, I can say with certainty you have nothing to be worried about…..Seriously, what kind of nerd finishes JuCo in 2 years? Anyone who would do that shit attends a real college.
“One of my least favorite aspects of shows about high school are the various bullshit ways students end up hanging around the same environment — everyone decides to go to the same college together,
*coughcough*SAVEDBYTHEBELL*coughcough*”
Don’t forget Saved By The Bell also had the season with Tory on it….you know, AFTER the gang all graduated, and then for some reason everyone by Kelly and Jessie came back to high school for another year.
I thought the same thing that Giant Crab did. If memory serves, they have already stated a graduation date for Jeff Winger (or the date he PLANS to graduate).
And wait….Community isn’t even set up by “year” is it? I thought it was set up by semester….
Not to mention they aren’t kids so it’s not like any of them are really going to start looking too old to play the roles.
@TFBuckFutter,
Season One was Fall of Year One, Season Two was Spring of Year One, and Season Three was all of Year Two, so they are pretty much at the point where they should have earned an Associate’s Degree, or at least be a semester or so shy if they weren’t taking a full load. However, it seems like the show establishes that they are all taking a minimum of three classes per semester, and none during the Summers, if I recall.
@GiantCrab,
I figured that the way Community can get around that will be the Dean getting the school accredited to become a 4-year college or at least to be able to give some 4-year agrees. This actually happened in real life with the community college system in Florida where a lot, if not all of them were granted the right to award baccalaureate degrees within the last decade, so there is actual precedent for it.
It would at least buy the show another season or two without having to use contrived ways to keep them at a CC for like 5 years.
Ya, Community is done by semester so they’re just going into year 2 in season 3. They’ve already said that they’re going to move them onto a university after season 4.
Yes Ryan Murphy, this show is extremely true to real life. Is he for real!?! Yah don’t fire the talent man.
Community is pretty clearly not done by semester, since they’ve had two complete seasons to go with two Halloween episodes, two Christmas episodes and so on. Come on.
My community college gave out four year degrees through a program with local 4 year schools.