Kevin McHale seemed unimpressed by the Glee docuseries

• The Price of Glee will debut on Investigation Discovery and Discovery+ on January 16.
• The series will examine the deaths of Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera, and Mark Salling as well as other cast members.
• Actor Chord Overstreet says the show is just a “tabloid thing trying to sell”

Kevin McHale, a member of the original Glee cast, is not singing any praises for the planned new docuseries about the programme.

The Fox musical comedy’s legacy and controversies are the main topics of The Price of Glee, which will debut on Investigation Discovery and Discovery+ on January 16 and examines the deaths of Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera, and Mark Salling as well as other cast members. Key cast and staff members share their personal experiences from their time on Glee in the docuseries, according to Deadline.

“Show me this ‘cast’ you speak of,” McHale, who played Artie Abrams on the show, tweeted Dec. 9. “This is [wastebasket emoji].”

The actor added, “This was the nice version, ftr. Don’t make me speak on this again.”

Warner Bros. Discovery has not responded to a request for a statement about McHale’s statements.

In response to McHale’s most recent tweet, Jenna Ushkowitz, who portrayed Tina Cohen-Chang, Artie’s love interest on Glee, used an emoji of a frowning face.

The Glee rewatches podcast And That’s What You Really Missed is co-hosted by the two. The stars mentioned the upcoming docuseries in passing during a BuzzFeed interview in November.

“In terms of the Discovery+ documentary, it feels even more important, to me at least, to do the podcast because we were the ones who were there,” Ushkowitz told the outlet. “And we were the ones experiencing this. And we know what really happened. So you know, for me, it feels even more pertinent to actually be the ones to share our experience when people are sharing experiences that they didn’t have.”

McHale added, “I also think the other reason why we wanted to do this was that with the pandemic and TikTok, there has been this weird resurgence of Glee. A whole new generation of people has been finding it. Like, children, who were not alive when the show started. We talked to [creator] Ryan [Murphy] about that, too, about just how cool and what an opportunity that is for people. They’re not necessarily attached to all of the, let’s say, drama, or the bad things people will talk about in the press because they’re just seeing this with new eyes.”

Fellow cast member Chord Overstreet also spoke about the new docuseries back in August. “I think anybody that knows anything about that show and experienced it doesn’t have anything to do with that from what I know,” he said on The Elvis Duran Show. “We’re all really close and pretty much like family. Nobody knows anything about that. I think it’s a little bit of like just trying to get people to watch something. I don’t think anybody really knows anything about it. I think it’s just like a tabloid thing trying to sell.”

All six seasons of Glee, which ended in 2015, had McHale and Jenna as the lead actors. Sam Evans, played by Overstreet, debuted in season two. Monteith, who was a member of the original cast, as their friend Finn Hudson. At age 31, he passed away in 2013 after an accidental overdose

Salling, who on the sitcom played Noah “Puck” Puckerman, committed suicide in 2018 at the age of 35 while awaiting sentencing in a case in which he had pled guilty to possessing child pornography involving a prepubescent juvenile.

Rivera, who portrayed Santana Lopez on Glee, was reported dead of an accidental drowning at the age of 33 following a boating accident in 2020, on the seventh anniversary of Monteith’s passing.

Her father, George Rivera, is featured in The Price of Glee docuseries. During his interview, he reflects on how the series impacted his late daughter’s life. “I knew that was the top of the mountain for Naya,” he says in the trailer, released Dec. 8. “For your kid, it was just surreal.”

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