Ryan Murphy denied the audience an explanation of why Finn died. He instead focused on grief — the slow motion way time ticks by for those who have lost loved ones. The waterworks were in full force, but it took Jane Lynch's character, Sue Sylvester, to ground the cast in the present. “We are not making a self-serving spectacle of our own sadness," she said while removing Finn's memorial from the fictional high school. That may have come off as cold, but Glee fans know that Sylvester's means of dealing with grief rarely involves shedding tears. Ryan Murphy chose not to flashback to Monteith's character. This emphasis on the loss, the "emptiness" that comes with death that Lynch talked about, was unexpected, but honest. It was, for lack of a better word, a "real" take on the notion of death; something that hasn't been handled so respectfully and openly, since
Sesame Street
bid farewell to Mr. Hooper.
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