The Price of Glee, the trailer of the documentary on the tragic deaths of the series “cursed”

glee represented for an entire generation a phenomenon similar to that of Beverly Hills, 90210 transforming a group of unknown youngsters into planetary superstars with sold out tours around the world. The actors topped the Hollywood Olympus too quickly and came out broken. That set is now considered cursed because three of them lost their lives and now a documentary is in the works, The Price of Gleewho tells it.

Ryan Murphy’s musical series brought inclusiveness and diversity to the stage before they were topics of daily debate and, on the notes of Don’t stop believing, sold fans the American dream in teen sauce. She said that you can be considered a loser (a loser, with an L on his forehead, as seen in the episodes) but if you have talent and good will, you can catch wishes and turn them into reality. With guest stars like Britney Spears and bets-homage to divas of the caliber of Lady Gaga made the history of TV.

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The trailer tells a taste of the project, in three parts and made by Investigation Discovery (in the United States it will air on January 16, 2023 also on Discovery +). More than on the anatomy of the serial success born in 2009 they retrace each other death by overdose of 31-year-old Canadian Cory Monteith (in 2013), at the time engaged to his colleague Lea Michele, the drowning of Naya Rivera at 33 trying to save his son Josey, while swimming in Lake Piru in California and finally the suicide of Mark Salling in 2018, after being convicted of possession of child pornography in 2007. The 36-year-old American actor was also the protagonist of a turbulent relationship with Rivera, who was in turn accused of domestic violence against her ex-husband Ryan Dorsey, father of child. The idea of ​​showing how showbusiness has failed for these young people comes from a series of testimonies, including that of Naya’s father.

The docu-series retraces what insiders now consider the cursed parable of a show born with the best intentions and then derailed, partly due to the decision to continue after the death of Cory Monteith.

Today Lea Michele, returning from the accusations of having created a toxic environment on the set, is the protagonist of Fanny Girl on Broadway while colleagues recycle themselves in all sorts of reality or talent shows stars and stripes, from The Masked Singer to RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race. Darren Cris, on the other hand, has re-teamed with Ryan Murphy for American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, Hollywood And American Horror Story.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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