2015 season of American musical comedy drama
Season of television series
Glee
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Promotional poster and home media cover art
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Starring
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No.
of episodes
| 13
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Original network
| Fox
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Original release
| January 9
(
2015-01-09
)
?
March 20, 2015
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2015-03-20
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List of episodes
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The sixth and final season of the
Fox
musical
comedy-drama
television series
Glee
was commissioned on April 19, 2013, along with the fifth season, as part of a two-season renewal deal for the show on the
Fox
network. The final season, consisting of 13 episodes, premiered on Friday, January 9, 2015, with the first two episodes, and the last two episodes (functioning as a single series finale) aired on March 20, 2015.
[1]
The series features the New Directions
glee club
at the fictional William McKinley High School (WMHS) in the town of
Lima, Ohio
, and some of the graduates of McKinley. The season focuses on the former glee club member,
Rachel Berry
, who returns to McKinley after her TV pilot bombs to rebuild the disbanded glee club. The central characters are the former glee club director
Will Schuester
(
Matthew Morrison
), school principal
Sue Sylvester
(
Jane Lynch
), and Glee club graduates Rachel Berry (
Lea Michele
),
Kurt Hummel
(
Chris Colfer
),
Blaine Anderson
(
Darren Criss
),
Artie Abrams
(
Kevin McHale
), and
Sam Evans
(
Chord Overstreet
).
Amber Riley
returns to the main cast as
Mercedes Jones
and
Dot-Marie Jones
, who portrays
Sheldon Beiste
, the school's football coach, was promoted to the main cast after four years as a recurring character.
Jenna Ushkowitz
,
Naya Rivera
,
Becca Tobin
,
Jacob Artist
,
Melissa Benoist
,
Blake Jenner
, and
Alex Newell
who have portrayed, respectively,
Tina Cohen-Chang
,
Santana Lopez
,
Kitty Wilde
,
Jake Puckerman
,
Marley Rose
,
Ryder Lynn
, and
Wade "Unique" Adams
, were demoted from the main cast this season with Ushkowitz, Rivera, and Tobin recurring throughout the season, Newell appearing in one mid season episode then joining Artist and Jenner for a brief appearance in the
series finale
. Benoist does not appear at all in this season.
The season was nominated for one
Emmy Award
for
Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
.
Episodes
[
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]
Production
[
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]
On April 19, 2013, Fox renewed
Glee
for a fifth and a sixth season, as part of a two-season renewal deal for the show.
[13]
Ryan Murphy
subsequently announced that season six would be the series' final season, that it wouldn't be New York-centric like the end of the fifth season, that there will be a time jump between the season five finale and the season six premiere, and that during the final season the show would revisit the younger McKinley High students who did not graduate in the fifth season.
[14]
Season six premiered on January 9, 2015, as part of the
2014?15 television season
. The 13 episodes were broadcast consecutively on Fridays at 9:00 p.m. (ET), with the beginning and ending double episodes starting an hour earlier.
[1]
[15]
Executive Music Producer
Adam Anders
began working on the music for the season on July 16, 2014,
[16]
and on August 25 his brother Alex Anders was in the studio with
Darren Criss
doing the show's first cast member recording session of the season.
[17]
The season's first day of filming was September 3, 2014, which was revealed that day by co-executive producer
Michael Hitchcock
with a "Back to school" tweet accompanied by a photo of a first-episode call sheet;
[18]
Lea Michele
posted a picture of herself from the set that same day.
[19]
Filming concluded on February 21, 2015.
The final season follows former New Directions lead singer and Broadway star
Rachel Berry
(Michele) as she returns to Lima to relaunch the New Directions.
[20]
The sixth season included the 700th song performance on the show,
[21]
[22]
[23]
which took place in the sixth episode.
[24]
On December 6, 2014, the EPs for the first two episodes of the season were posted on Amazon over a month before their scheduled release, including the episodes' titles "Loser Like Me" and "Homecoming". "Loser Like Me" included the songs "
Uninvited
", "Suddenly Seymour", "
Sing
",
[25]
"Dance the Night Away" and "
Let It Go
".
[26]
[27]
"Homecoming" included the songs "Take On Me", "Tightrope", "Mustang Sally", "Home" and "Problem".
[28]
The EP for the third episode was posted on December 13, 2014, including the episode title "Jagged Little Tapestry". The episode included the songs "It's Too Late", "So Far Away", and three mash-ups: "Hand In My Pocket / I Feel the Earth Move", "
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
/ Head Over Feet", and "You Learn / You've Got a Friend".
[29]
Cast
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The main cast was reduced for the sixth season:
Chris Colfer
,
Darren Criss
,
Jane Lynch
,
Kevin McHale
,
Lea Michele
,
Matthew Morrison
, and
Chord Overstreet
continue from the previous season while
Amber Riley
returned to the main cast and
Dot-Marie Jones
was promoted to the main cast after four years as a recurring guest star.
[20]
Former previous main cast members who return as guest stars include
Jenna Ushkowitz
,
Dianna Agron
,
Mark Salling
,
Jayma Mays
,
[30]
Naya Rivera
,
[31]
Heather Morris
,
[32]
Becca Tobin
,
[33]
Harry Shum Jr.
,
[34]
Mike O'Malley
,
Alex Newell
,
[35]
Jessalyn Gilsig
,
Jacob Artist
, and
Blake Jenner
.
[36]
Past recurring guest stars returning during the season include
Iqbal Theba
,
[37]
Lauren Potter
,
[38]
Max Adler
,
[39]
Gloria Estefan
,
[40]
Romy Rosemont
,
[41]
Brian Stokes Mitchell
,
NeNe Leakes
,
Ivonne Coll
,
Jonathan Groff
,
[42]
Vanessa Lengies
,
[43]
Ashley Fink
,
Samuel Larsen
, and
Dijon Talton
.
[36]
Five new major recurring characters were introduced: Roderick (Noah Guthrie), a shy teenager with a good voice, Spencer Porter (
Marshall Williams
), a "post-modern gay" football player, Jane Hayward (
Samantha Marie Ware
), an ambitious girl who originally intends to join the Warblers, and twins Mason (Billy Lewis Jr.) and Madison McCarthy (
Laura Dreyfuss
), cheerleaders who are strange but positive.
[44]
[45]
The Wanted
's
Max George
plays Clint, the villainous new Vocal Adrenaline lead singer.
Harry Hamlin
guest starred as Walter, Kurt's brief love interest who is in his 50s.
Josie Totah
plays Myron Muskovitz, a spoiled but talented 13-year-old tween and
Finneas O'Connell
plays Alistair, the love interest for Spencer. Special guest stars include
Ken Jeong
and
Jennifer Coolidge
as Brittany's parents, and
Gina Gershon
as Blaine's mother.
[40]
[46]
[47]
Michael Bolton, Geraldo Rivera, and Carnie Wilson appear as themselves.
[48]
Carol Burnett reprises her role as Doris, Sue's mother, for the first time since the
second season
.
[48]
Reception
[
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Critical response
[
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]
The opening of the season was received with positive reviews from critics, most of them remarking how it reminds them of
Glee
'
s first seasons.
[49]
[50]
[51]
The sixth-season premiere was the lowest watched season premiere in the show's history, with a rating of 2.34 and in adults 18-49 the premiere scored a 0.7/2.
[2]
The
review aggregator
website
Rotten Tomatoes
gives the sixth season a 72% with an average rating of 5.77/10, based on 18 reviews. The site's critics consensus reads, "The band plays on in a truncated final season that is a little daffier and overstuffed than where
Glee
began, but some disciplined storytelling and sweetly rendered character arcs harmonizes one grande finale that will hearten the New Directions' faithful."
[52]
Ratings
[
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]
Live + SD Ratings
[
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]
Home media releases
[
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]
Glee ? The Final Season
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Set Details
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Special Features
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- 13 Episodes
- 4 Disc Set
- English 5.1 Dolby Digital
- Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
- Runtime: 570 Minutes
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- Glee: The Final Curtain
- Glee Music Jukebox
- Looking Back Video Yearbook
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Release Dates
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Region 1
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Region 2
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Region 4
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May 19, 2015
(
2015-05-19
)
[64]
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August 24, 2015
(
2015-08-24
)
[65]
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August 11, 2015
(
2015-08-11
)
[66]
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Glee La Temporada Final
.
ASIN
6305033196
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