Remember the Glee spinoff that Ryan Murphy kept hawking? The one that was supposed to make it okay that he was graduating (AKA booting off) a huge chunk of his main cast members, especially leads Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, and Chris Colfer? Well, it turns out that may have just served to wean the Gleeks off their musical theater crack because Fox says the the spinoff is a no-go.

Fox head Kevin Reilly says we won’t be following Rachel and Kurt in their own series as they head off to NYC, but--rest assured--there is a “really cool idea” that may bring some of the seniors back next season. This is just a jumbled-up way of saying that Fox realized that yanking away the characters that people have grown attached to for the last three years is not the best way to go about bringing in new blood to the show.
Though vague about plans for the rest of the graduating seniors, Reilly did confirm that Lea will definitely return to Glee in the fourth season. So now, instead of awkwardly old high school students, we’ll have awkwardly visiting high school graduates?
At least they’re realizing their mistake now. I still watch Glee, but I wasn’t planning on watching the spinoff. I do not think I’d actually want to see the Glee characters outside of a high school setting. In the real world, Rachel would just be a grating, crazy-eyed girl with her fair share of delusions, and Kurt would just be another super-fabulous gay in New York City. When misery is cockroaches, bedbugs, and finding a rent control apartment, it’s waaay less fun. That sh!t’s too real, even with a musical score.