Filed under: Donovan, TV Shows
Author: Donovan
Date: Aug 24, 2012
Everyone’s favorite new Twitter user, Ryan Murphy, bestowed a couple of goodies online, making Gleeks universally ecstatic. The Glee co-creator unleashed the show’s first Season 4 poster, along with a cast photo with one notable fan-favorite missing. Is someone not coming back, even though Murphy stated a few months ago that everyone was returning in different capacities?
The first visual features special guest star Kate Hudson motioning the loser “L” in the show’s signature style. With the tagline “Sometimes the Big Apple bites“, it appears things will not be a walk in Central the park for former New Directions MVP. Someone will definitely not be the teacher’s pet. Rachel Berry better be on her best behavior or in this case, pointed toes since Hudson is playing a dance teacher. Hudson certainly looks like she’s embracing her deliciously mean new character.

In the second piece of artwork, the Season 4 cast is shown in a panoramic photo. Does it reveal any spoilers? Perhaps. Santana is situated with Rachel and Kurt. Is the Latina lesbian heading to New York City as well? Does this mean the end of Brittany and Santana? Given that they’re the only couple not beside each other, I would think so.
So who’s missing from the photo? Coach Bieste, Emma, Sugar and Joe are all absent from the cast photo along with Glee Project Season 2 champ, Blake Jenner. But the most glaring omission is Dianna Agron’s Quinn Fabray. Has she ditched the FOX show for a movie career? Murphy appeased Quinn fans by tweeting, “Gleeks, please relax. Dianna is still on the show. We love her and have great plans for Quinn. #QuinnFabrayLives”. Quinn fans can now breathe a huge sigh of relief.
Just in case you don’t recognize a few of the faces above, they’re a quartet of new additions. Dean Geyer (Terra Nova), Jacob Artist (Melissa & Joey), Melissa Benoist (Homeland) and Becca Tobin (Wiener & Wiener) are all joining the cast on a recurring basis.
Are you looking forward to seeing how the producers handle all the graduates, new characters and McKinley High students? Do you think any of the couples from last year will break up? Sound off below.
benjamin
August 24th, 2012 at 7:45 am
i thought santana was going to st louis?!
Russel
August 24th, 2012 at 9:16 am
And no Rory too… Sad.
MauiKane
August 24th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Dang! I was hoping we were done with Rachel Berry. There are several other gals in the cast who are more talented than Lea Michele; she is vastly overrated. Also, what happened to Grant Gustin? I was hoping they would expland on his character; get him out of the Blaine and Kurt interactions and focus on the Sebastian Smythe character.
Mike
August 24th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Yes where is Rory which fan favorite rather than Joe Hart?
Mike
August 24th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Yes where is Rory which fan favorite rather than Joe Hart?
Brendan
August 24th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Well this show is fickle, mostly because of Ryan Murphy. He throws characters at us and only the ones that interest him stick around… it’s really a letdown to see Joe and Rory and Sugar and all the other minor characters just fade away. It would have been the perfect time to make them the focus of the Glee club, but instead a new crop of people are being brought in. Don’t get too attached, they will fade away too…
Ewan
August 24th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Dean Geyer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HarryR
August 25th, 2012 at 3:05 am
Way too much Rachel and no Rory nor Grant Gustin. I’ll watch, I guess, the first episode or two of season 4 but the whole NY thing has been done by show after show. Glee set in the Midwest is actually refreshing. Now maybe a segment following Mike Chang to Chicago would be interesting. And I still can’t wrap my head around that Kurt is older than Blaine in that Blaine seems 4 or 5 years older than Kurt.
HarryR
August 25th, 2012 at 3:22 am
Also, on the Glee Project 2, while there is no question that Blake has leading man, singing & acting chops, to replace Cory as the MVP jock, as the season went on Michael Weisman began to catch my eye as the potential to be a much more interesting addition to the cast. Too bad he was cut just before the final. That, I think, was a mistake.