"The Price of Glee," premiering Monday on ID and Discovery+, gathers the most notable news coverage (both positive and negative) around the once-beloved Fox series. Though filmed without the participation of any members of the principal cast or creative team — Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz, who currently run a "Glee" podcast, respectively deemed the new series "trash" and urged viewers to "proceed with caution" — the three-part documentary recounts the dark shadows around some of its actors: Cory Monteith's overdose, Mark Salling's arrest, Lea Michele's bullying behavior, Naya Rivera's tragic death, and Melissa Benoist's allegations of domestic violence against Blake Jenner.
The docuseries attempts to assign blame for the various controversies and casualties of the cultural phenomenon. "Part of what has happened on this show is so incredibly toxic, and yet it was a giant hit that everybody was watching, including me," says psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser.
While most of the included information will be familiar to former and still-faithful Gleeks, the project did reveal some factoids in its first two episodes. If you're not going to watch any of it, here's what you missed on "The Price of Glee."
