Last Night in the States Glee showed it's saddest episode and it was probably the saddest tv episode I have ever watched. Its shows how the Glee club and past members are coping three weeks after Finn Hudson's untimely death. It opened with the main cast and past characters such as Mercedes, Mike and Puck. All current and formers Glee club members sang "Seasons of Love" and when the song ended they showed a picture of Cory and then my tears started and never stopped. I thought the episode was perfect. It didn't say how Finn died or show his funeral. It showed how his friends coped with the tragic loss and how he impacted the charters in the show. I thought it was very brave for the show to kill off the character. The could have said he was in college and not relate to what really happened to Cory.
You can see the charters pain and how much Cory ment to the actors. It was classy and beautiful and showed how everyone copes with grief differently. Some scenes were very upsetting to watch, one very sad scene is where Finns mum, step dad and step brother Kurt, clean up his belongings in his room. The actress who plays Finn's mother gives a great performance as the grieving mother and pointedly states "How am I a mother when I don't have a child anymore". This line really got to me, at this point I was sobbing like crazy.
Naya Rivera's performance was my favorite. She sang The Band Perry "If I Die Young". I thought the lyrics described the situation perfectly and you could feel Naya's upset.
However the most prominent performance comes from Lea Michele who played Finn's girlfriend and who was Corys real life girlfriend. She sang Bob Dylan's "Make You Feel My Love". I love how she didn't hide her heartbreak and I cannot image how hard it was for her to preform. We see her in the last ten minutes of the episode and I do not know how she filmed it and sang that song. It was a beautiful performance and my heart bled for her.
When I saw the promo for the episode first I got teary and today the played a clip on the radio and I started to cry a small bit. I knew it would be a sad watch. I am not the kind of girl who tears up at tv shows and movies, (I have never cried at the notebook!) however this episode really got to me.
Cory Monteith never seemed to have any addiction problems and when he went to rehab a few months before his death I was shocked but I thought fair play to him, he is getting help. I was completely and utterly shocked when I heard the new he had died. I suppose that's why the episode was so powerful, it came as a shock to the viewer and the people who worked on the show. I also think the real life relationship between Cory and Lea made the show that more somber. Rachel tells Mr Shue how she and Finn's future plans and how they were going to be together forever and the fact that her love and future were going to be taken away from her in real life as well made it seem so much more final.
Well done to everyone who partook in the episode,you could tell the actors weren't acting those were real tears and real emotions. It was moving, emotive and realistic and you could tell
RIP Cory
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