News on Amazon Prime Video: This series has seen so much tragedy that it’s now considered cursed

Attention to the Gleks! Almost 10 years after the iconic musical series created by Ryan Murphy ended, it’s finally coming to Prime Video. This is your chance to catch up on Season 6 and have a little karaoke session with New Directions. Because in 121 episodes, Rachel, Finn and the rest of the Glee Club performed hundreds of songs…

And while we still remember some of their performances — most famously Journey’s title track “Don’t Stop Believing” — the series also got people talking about it for the wrong reasons. To the point that some considered it “cursed”. A topic that is precisely discussed in the documentary The Price of Glee, which was released last year and is available on the Max platform.

Series in mourning

Glee is the story of a team in an American high school that combines both outcasts And the most popular teenagers. All this was brought together by music and the cares of youth. While Glee Club gained new members between the first and last seasons, the core remained essentially the same: three of the series’ main actors tragically lost their lives between 2013 and 2020.

In July 2013, the press announced the death of Cory Monteith (Finland), along with his Glee co-star Lea Michele, with whom he shared his life. The actor, a victim of alcohol and heroin overdoses, never hid his drug addiction, and spending a few years in rehab doesn’t seem to have helped him get out of that bad situation.

Two years later, it’s actor Mark Salling who’s in turmoil. Rocker Pak’s translator was arrested by the police for possession of child pornography: 500,000 photos and 600 videos of minors were found on his computer. Saling pleaded guilty in court and was found hanged in her home in 2018, two months before she was due to be sentenced.

In 2020, 5 years after the end of the series, another drama affects one of the historical members of Glee. Fans learn of the death of Volcanic Santana interpreter Naya Rivera. The latter tragically drowned in a lake near Los Angeles while trying to save her son…

Five other production members also died during filming of the series, including two by suicide.

toxic shot

If some in the series’ behind-the-scenes documentary are to be believed, working with the cast of Glee was like a schoolyard development. In addition to the pace of work considered too intense by the actors, the teams had to work on each other’s egos. As well as Naya Rivera and Lea Michele, who never hid their differences on set.

But it exploded after the end of the series. It’s 2020 and protests and demonstrations are on the rise after the death of George Floyd in the United States. Like many Hollywood stars, the ambitious Rachel’s translator supports the Black Lives Matter movement.

Former partner Samantha Ware, who later denounced the “racist micro-aggressions” she received from Michelle while filming the series, was very unhappy.

She will receive support from the rest of the cast, who have also indicated constant harassment. It’s enough to make a Broadway singer publicly apologized on social networks.

He will return to this event in 2022 in an interview New York Times : “I work very hard. I leave nothing to chance. That level of perfectionism and the pressure that comes with it has forced me to make mistakes.” reducing…

Finally, actress Melissa Benoist, who joined the series in season 4 at the same time as her husband Blake Jenner, accused the latter of domestic violence.

Glee is available in its entirety on Prime Video.