At the end of the next season, Lea Michele (Rachel), Chris Colfer (Kurt) and Cory Monteith (Finn) leave the musical TV series Glee.
"You can keep them on the show for six years and people will criticize you for not being realistic,” co-creator Ryan Murphy told the Hollywood Reporter. “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 has already discussed the news with Michele and Colfer.
“We’ve never done anything by the book. We made that decision and I involved Chris and Lea and they thought that was a good idea. They both trust the writing and trust me and felt that it would be great to have an open and closed experience for them to go out while they were on top,” said Murphy.
Murphy presumes that Monteith is aware of the plans since “he was a sophomore when the show started.”
“I’m much more interested in Lea’s character – not so much on her relationship with Finn, but more on what her dreams are beyond high school and how she plans on getting them,” he added. “That’s what my senior year was about.”
Glee’s September 20 premiere of season four will reveal who’s graduating and who’s staying.