Glee

‘Glee’s’ awkward but moving farewell to Cory Monteith, the sensitive, singing quarterback:

 

Fox’s musical high-school comedy, “Glee,” said goodbye Thursday night to Finn Hudson, the sensitive star quarterback-turned-pop song crooner played by the late actor Cory Monteith, in a one-hour tribute episode that brought out some of what’s still good about the show and a lot of what’s become stale about it.

Just how "Glee" would handle the death of Monteith had haunted the Fox series and its fans since the 31-year-old star was found dead in a Canadian hotel room in July of an accidental alcohol and drug overdose.
Soon after, the decision was made by the show's producers to write Finn out of the series, and decisively: He, too, would die.

But as viewers of Thursday's emotional yet reflective episode found, Finn's death wasn't dramatized, nor was his funeral seen. Instead, the episode picked up several weeks afterward, focusing on the impact of his death on his friends. Tears flowed, and tempers flared. The episode was more a meditation on what death means to those left behind than on death itself.
In fact, the cause of Finn's death wasn't disclosed.
"Everyone wants to talk about how he died, but who cares?" one character said. "I care about how he lived."