After departing McKinley High to move to New York full-time for the latter part of this season, the musical dramedy Glee looked destined to end its run in the Big Apple. That won’t be the case, co-creator/executive producer Ryan Murphy said in a press call yesterday. “The final season is its own story in its own location; it is not New York-centric at all,” Murphy said, as reported by TVLine. “It really is a lovely, fitting season that dwells on the original people on the show and what happens to them and how they give back… We’ll revisit some of the new kids that came and went, there’s a return of the (Jane Lynch’s Sue Sylvester) and (Matthew Morrison’s Will Schuester) in a big way.”
The sixth and final season of Glee will consist of 24 episode, two of them carried over from this season, cut short by the sudden death of star Cory Monteith. Monteith’s passing also changed Glee creators’ plans how to end the series, as their original ending featured Lea Michele’s Rachel returning to McKinley High and Monteith’s Finn. The new final scene idea “is about Rachel and Mr. Schue, and it returns them to their origins, their roots, how they felt about each other when they were much younger and everything was idyllic,” Murphy said. “I think the ending has to be a reflection and a celebration of how far all those characters have come.
