Once she joins the glee club, she forms friendships with the other students in the club. In the third season, she is elected senior class president, defeating Kurt. The loss of the young actors has had some questioning whether there is a "Glee curse." The discovery of. After junior prom, Mercedes and Sam begin dating secretly, but he moves away during the summer. He comes to William McKinley High with an enviable record of coaching successful football teams, and Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) boosts the football program budget for him by reducing the cheerleading and glee club budgets, which alarms coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) and director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), respectively, and drives them into a temporary alliance against him. "[3] Glee's costume designer Lou Eyrich selects "quirky" outfits for Emma, to reflect her "sunny disposition". "[102] In her acting career, Jones has "played every tough chick possible", and in early 2012 described the role of Beiste as one "where I still get to be the tough coach, but be vulnerable, have heart and have a love interest". "[16] The A.V. The casting notice for the role of Sandy read, in part, "He's gay, but covers it most of the time. In the season one finale, he professes his love for her before New Directions performs at Regionals, and the second season finds Finn and Rachel a couple. When Jake reveals his fear, Ryder backs out. [131] He is first introduced in "Homecoming" alongside his twin sister Madison. The cast of "Glee" Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Jenna Ushkowitz, Chord Overstreet, and Darren Criss make an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," March 11, 2015 . [104] She was one of three actresses from the show to be nominated in that category in 2011; the victor was another Glee nominee, Gwyneth Paltrow. [258], Guest stars have included Josh Groban and Olivia Newton-John, who appeared as themselves both separately and acting as judges at the first-season show choir regionals competition. Shopper (uncredited . [8] Michele took the role in Glee because of Rachel's characterization, explaining: "Not only is she a singer, but she has so much heartI think it's what we need on TV. Us rynique fans are running with that as canon. Kurt eventually returns to McKinley, and they formally declare their love at the end of the second season, and at the beginning of the third season, Blaine transfers to McKinley to be with Kurt. Ryder was there in the back. Pretending like Melissa Benoist, Jacob. Talton explained that Finn joining the glee club made it more acceptable for Matt to be honest with himself about what he wanted to do, and that he is becoming more comfortable being in the glee club, "what it stands for, how it makes him feel". [111][112] Jacob has a crush on Rachel, who feels uneasy around him but relies on him for positive reviews. *Also, there was no April Rhodes, Shelby Corcoran, Sunshine Corazon (lol, does she count? [5] Agron auditioned for Glee coming from a background in dancing and acting. [119] Sugar has subsequently been seen dancing and singing in several polished performances, indicating that she has greatly improved. He is directed to a professional and begins treatment to improve his studying. [43] Artie uses a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury he received in a car crash at the age of eight. The two of them are shown to be incredibly close and are referred to by Kitty Wilde as the "creepy incest twins". [42] Eventually she gives up on doing an album after her producer pressures her into showing more skin on her CD cover art. In "Prom Queen", when Karofsky wins prom king and Kurt, shockingly, wins prom queen, the two walk onto the floor for the traditional king and queen dance, but Karofsky is unable to come out as Kurt suggests, and leaves. His resumed relationship with Rachel ultimately fails when Finn suddenly kisses her in the middle of a Nationals performance and Rachel chooses to get back together with him. A kiss from Quinn brings back Puck's confidence: he passes the retest and graduates. In the episode "Wheels", he competes with Rachel to perform "Defying Gravity" from Wicked. [101] Jones had previously worked with Glee co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk on Nip/Tuck, and when she encountered Falchuk at a local supermarket she says she told him, "'Write me something', just joking, you know, but not really." [200] Also in the fifth and sixth season, Christopher Cousins plays Superintendent Bob Harris. (Main Season 36; Recurring Season 2) Blaine Devon Anderson (Darren Criss) is a recurring character in season 2 and a main character in seasons 36. After Dave Karofsky bullies him into a depression early in the second season, Kurt becomes close friends with an openly gay student at Dalton Academy, named Blaine Anderson. [120] Sugar remains with New Directions at their Nationals victory, and returns the next year to continue with the glee club at Sectionals and Regionals, but has not appeared in the fifth season. When Jake and Marley begin dating, Ryder struggles with his feelings for her. [185] Comparing himself to his character, Gallagher detailed: "I'm more like him than I care to admit. Later, when Jake is picked on, Ryder stands up for him and thanks Jake for helping him with his problem and the two start a friendship. Finn, who had held the glee club together after Marley's fainting had almost ended it, has to leave New Directions when Will and he are at loggerheads. Ricky Martin portrays David Martinez, a night school Spanish teacher, in the episode "The Spanish Teacher". [18] His dedication to the glee club wavers when his choreography skills are called into question, but after starting a well-received all-male a cappella group, the Acafellas, he recommits to the club. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing in the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. Though some staff or students at McKinley do not recognize Unique for the woman she is, others are more accepting. [114][115], Rory Flanagan (Damian McGinty) is an Irish foreign exchange student who is living with Brittany's family. (Main Season 5; Recurring Season 4; Guest Season 6) Kitty Wilde (Becca Tobin) is introduced as a new McKinley High cheerleader in "The New Rachel". VIDEO: Matthew Morrison talks about the last day of filming of Glee. [97] He also takes on the task of running the school elections. Jacob Ben Israel (Josh Sussman) is the vain, creepy editor of the school newspaper, in addition to running his own gossip blog. In 2020, Blaine and Kurt go to Harvey Milk Elementary School to encourage kids to pursue their dreams. She tells Jake, which temporarily strains their relationship, and nearly ends Jake's friendship with Ryder. [39] Early in season one, Mercedes develops a crush on Kurt, unaware that he is gay. The cast shared pictures from the set on Twitter and Instagram, like Lea Michele 's post of one particularly poignant picture of herself carrying Finn's framed jersey from Cory Monteith 's. She briefly goes out with his best friend Puck,[9] and later dates Jesse St. James (Jonathan Groff), the lead singer of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, who ultimately betrays her in favor of his club. [110], Roderick Meeks (Noah Guthrie) is a senior at McKinley and a member of the New Directions. Tina and Mike Chang are counselors at Asian Camp over the summer, and they fall for each other; Tina formally breaks off with Artie at the beginning of the second season, and she and Mike are still in love when the school year ends, the only relationship in the glee club to survive the entire school year, and the longest unbroken relationship between the members since the club was formed. I realized I was going for what I like to think as an older version of me from years ago. At the same time, Jacob Artist, Melissa Benoist, Blake Jenner, Alex Newell and Becca Tobin were promoted to the main cast and are credited as such for the season, though they appear only in the first thirteen of the twenty episodes, after which New Directions is disbanded and the series shifts to the glee club alumni in New York City for the remainder of the season. Sue comforts her afterward. In first episode of the fourth season, "The New Rachel", Kurt and Rachel get an apartment together in New York. Sam continues to support her, and a YouTube video he posts of Mercedes singing results in her being offered a job as a backup singer in Los Angeles after she graduates. Rachel has an on-off relationship with Finn throughout the series. Week. Over the seasons, 'Glee' has remained immensely popular, [] Now: Cory Monteith. He sets up a consulting business to help show choirs with their performances and offers to consult the New Directions as his first client. She has an amazing voice, much better than some of the other members. "[185] Gallagher finds the character interesting, as to play the role he has to face his own "insecurities" and "bitterness". However, valuing his friendship with Jake and Marley's happiness, Ryder decides to suppress his feelings and be happy for them. In the episode "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds", Santana meets and starts dating a waitress at the Spotlight Diner, Dani (Demi Lovato). He next appears in the third-season episode "The First Time". In "The End of Twerk", Marley discovers that Jake had cheated on her with one of the cheerleaders, Bree, and breaks up with him. McKinley High has now become a model of excellence and other schools are copying its format. In the episode "Diva", Santana has dropped out of college, and of Brittany's suggestion, she moves in with Kurt and Rachel in New York. Although she blows her audition for a New York dramatic arts college, NYADA, her Nationals performance in Chicago serves as a redo and she is ultimately accepted, but Finn is rejected from his New York school. [62] Later, at her and Santana's wedding she convinces Blaine and Kurt to marry alongside them as a joint ceremony. She sleeps with him once, though she tells him afterward she has made a mistake, to his disgust, and subsequently resigns from McKinley. 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Ryder helps Jake with ideas for Valentine's Day gifts for Marley, and at Will and Emma's wedding on Valentine's Day, she and Jake think about going "all the way", but Marley decides she isn't ready. After Grease, Kitty joins New Directions in "Dynamic Duets", and when last year's graduates of the glee clubwhich won a Nationals championshipreturn to mentor the new members prior to Sectionals competition, Kitty is mentored by her idol, former head cheerleader Quinn Fabray. Kurt later gets trapped in an elevator along with Blaine by Sue who wants to get them back together; to escape, they meet Sue's demand that they kiss each other. But Kurt assures Blaine that he will support him, no matter what. Figgins appoints swim coach Roz Washington (NeNe Leakes) Sue's co-coach for the Cheerios, but Sue makes a deal with him that if she helps New Directions win Nationals, she'll resume sole control of the Cheerios. [186] Gallagher feels that he draws much of Ken's characterization from himself, while also "channeling" his high school gym teachers. [136] Becky is still a student at McKinley in the fourth season, still a Cheerio, and still Sue's aide-de-camp. I know Lindsey Pierce was never a ND member, but I feel like she totally should have been. [21] She is later reinstated after blackmailing Figgins, and wins her sixth consecutive national cheerleading title. Artie Abrams First of all, stop yelling at me. "[122] Entertainment Weekly's Abby West praised Sugar, and with Sue otherwise occupied hoped to see more of Sugar as "a thorn in the Glee club's side". In that episode, he joins Sue Sylvester's "League of Doom", using the codename "The Pink Dagger",[183] but ends up donating money to support the school's academic decathlon team, spoiling Sue's plans. Even if they didn't really have lines, they were important to Glee. It is also the 13th and final episode of the show's sixth season and the 121st episode overall. [201] He is first introduced in the episode "Audition", escorting his new recruit Sunshine Corazn out of William McKinley High School and taking her away from its glee club, having been tipped off about her by Sue Sylvester, and employed the underhanded tactics of offering to sponsor Sunshine's visa and arranging an apartment for her and her family as payment for her joining Vocal Adrenaline despite her being enrolled at McKinley High. This section shows characters who will appear or have appeared in at least one season. [17] She discovers she has actually experienced a hysterical pregnancy, but hides this from Will, afraid he will leave her. Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel) is the coach of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline during season one, described by Murphy as "a sort of Faye Dunaway of Network". Sebastian becomes captain of the Warblers, and in "Michael", he spikes the New Directions plan to do Michael Jackson songs at Regionals by adding Jackson's music to the Warblers setlist. In 2011, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie was released. In the fourth season, Mercedes has moved there and is taking classes at UCLA as well as being a backup singer, though she returns to help with the school musical,[41] for Thanksgiving,[37] and for Mr. Schuester's wedding. In "Feud", Sue names her Cheerios co-captain again, along with the newly recruited Blaine Anderson. Written by the show's co-creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan and directed by Bradley Buecker, it aired on Fox in the United States on March 20, 2015, along with the previous episode, "2009", as a special two-hour finale. Although, she has felt more confident about herself since she joined the New Directions, she still struggles with others accepting her. In the series finale, titled Dreams Come True, Jesse and Rachel attend a fictionalized 2020 Tony Awards ceremony. At the beginning of season three, Blaine decides to transfer to McKinley to be with Kurt, and joins New Directions. He is approached by Kurt Hummel during "Homecoming" about the possibility of joining the New Directions, but he declines, saying he shouldn't have to join a stupid glee club just because he is openly gay. (Main Season 2; Recurring Season 1,3; Guest Season 46) Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley) is Kurt's father and Finn's stepfather to whom Kurt comes out in the episode "Preggers". No Rory No Marley No Warblers except Blaine (although they were part of ND) No Jacob Ben Israel (he was also an ND - briefly) NO BRAD! "[209], Grace Hitchens (Eve) is the show choir director of the Jane Addams Academy for troubled female youth. Edit: after further observation, he appears to have been in the episode, but still not in this number as far as I can tell. You won't always recognize it. She is eventually able to walk again, and even to dance in performance with the glee club. He is briefly kicked off the football team with the other non-glee club members in "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle", but they return to perform the championship game's half-time show mashup of "Thriller/Heads Will Roll" with the club, and ultimately win the game. [21] Jacob also does polling, and his numbers are frequently mentioned during campaigns for prom king and queen, and in elections for student government and class president. (Main Season 15; Recurring Season 6) Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz) auditions for the glee club with the song "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry. [18] After confiding her deception in her sister Kendra, Terri approaches pregnant cheerleader Quinn Fabray, with an interest in her baby. [79] In the final episode of season one, Mike says that before New Directions, "I was afraid to dance outside my room. The initial main cast encompassed club director and Spanish (later History) teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), Will's wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig), and eight club members played by Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Amber Riley, Mark Salling and Jenna Ushkowitz. During the "Shooting Star" episode, while the choir room is locked down after shots are heard, Kitty confesses to Marley about her Grease costume sabotage; she tearfully apologizes, and is forgiven. In that same episode she also begins a romantic relationship with Will. [40] She briefly dates Puck, but ultimately breaks up with him and quits the Cheerios, afraid of turning into someone she does not want to be. Murphy stated at PaleyFest in March 2011 that Paltrow as Holly would be returning in season three for a series of guest appearances, but she has not appeared on Glee in the two years since that announcement.[178]. [74] Blaine successfully runs for senior class president. In the episode "Glee, Actually" Sue breaks into her house and stocks it with presents and money. I think he's still got a good heart, but there's this insecurity and bitterness piled on top of it. Wade is a young trans woman, who wants to perform in competition as Unique but she lacks the confidence, until Mercedes and Kurt persuade her. Still, she was shocked to hear from her agent two months later that Murphy had done so. She compounds the mistake in "I Kissed a Girl" when she sleeps with him, and Shelby resigns from McKinley in the eighth episode, "Hold On to Sixteen". [80] He is subsequently selected to perform a dance routine with Brittany for Sectionals in "Special Education". Press J to jump to the feed. [105] She was also part of the Glee cast ensemble that was nominated in December 2011 for the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series award at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. [26] In the episode "Mattress", Will uncovers Terri's ruse when he discovers her pregnancy pad in a drawer. New Directions goes on to win Nationals, and it is unknown what happens to Jesse afterwards. Three months later, Will is nervous for his first day, but his wife Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) consoles him. I didn't want to turn it down! Believing her to be pregnant, unaware that she is actually experiencing a hysterical pregnancy, he considers leaving the teaching field to become an accountant.