'Glee' Series Finale Spoilers, Plot Recap: Final Episode of Hit Show Review
After six seasons of great music, triumphs and tragedies, make-ups and break-ups, "Glee" ended its run with a two-hour finale which featured a flashback to how it all started, what became of the Glee club members in 2020, and an emotional tribute to Cory Monteith.
The episode opened with a flashback to 2009, which showed a bullied Kurt and later, Rachel and Kurt singing together. In the flashback, Mercedes cries after losing the first glee club solo to Rachel, so she runs and goes to a church to cry. A woman comforts her and predicts that she and Rachel will be very good friends one day.
At a glee club meeting, they all talk about Finn and were on the verge of voting him out of the club, but then the New Directions start talking about how nice he really is. We also get a repeat of the pilot's "Don't Stop Believing" number, with Finn and the rest of the group, and we're all reminded how the club began.
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Back in the present day, the New Directions win the nationals. Three months later, the Superintendent announces that McKinley High would now become a school exclusively for the arts. Will Schuster is named the new principal of the school, and once he accepted the job and walked into the rehearsal room, all the glee club members burst into applause.
Sam is appointed as the new head of the glee club. Meanwhile, Mercedes gets to open for Beyonce's world tour. Five years later, she headlines her own tour.
Elsewhere in 2020, Sue is the Vice President of the U.S. and Becky is the head of her security team. Will is still the principal of McKinley High, and he has three children with Emma.
Kurt and Blaine also have a child of their own, and it turns out that Rachel agreed to be their surrogate. As for Rachel, she's married to Jesse St. James, and she finally wins her very first Tony Award and in her speech, she dedicates it to Will.
The entire group reunites at McKinley High auditorium, and Sue announces that it will now be named the Finn Hudson Auditorium. All the Glee members, past and present, come out on stage to celebrate Finn and sing One Republic's "I Lived."
The episode ends with a final shot of Finn's picture next to a plaque dedicating the Finn Hudson Auditorium, with the words "See the world not as it is, but as it should be."
