By Sterling Martinez

Since 2009, Glee has been belting out notes and dosing out drama on FOX TV.

Despite all of the tears, struggles, song, dances, and mash-ups, and break ups all “Gleeks” knew that, eventually the last song would come. As the last song gets closer and closer to airing, Rachel Berry (Lea Michelle) must figure out where her career will go after her failed television career.

Last season ended with Rachel heading off to Los Angeles to pursue a career on TV. Much like when Ryan Murphy witnessed Michelle’s talent and invited her to be on the show, Rachel Berry jumped at the idea of her own show. The major difference is Berry’s career came to a rather abrupt end when her TV show tanked.

Berry headed home to Lima, Ohio to regroup and put back together the McKinley High Glee club, where this season picks up.

The writers of the show took the first four episodes to get viewers accustomed to this new reality of Rachel coaching the glee club, Kurt and Blaine being broken up, and Will being the coach of the New Directions’ enemy, Vocal Adrenaline. It becomes unclear what Rachel will do next for her career.

Since the beginning of the show and her sophomore year in high school, viewers always thought that Rachel would end up on Broadway, but to everyone’s amazement, she gave that up and jumped at a chance for something different. I can’t say that I am excited about where things are headed— at best I remain apprehensive. It is difficult to make sense of where things are headed and why. Although I understand that there were loose ends that needed tying up, but I do not understand why the writers chose a new course for Berry’s career. Her dream was achieved, and then she changed her mind and lost everything. After Berry’s debut on Broadway they could have used the remaining episodes of season six to tie those loose storylines in the most incredible bow. But much like Berry, the writers took a leap and fell a bit short of improving the show. Starting from scratch seems a little rash.

The remaining viewers are waiting in desperation to see where everything ends. The show is definitely headed somewhere, otherwise there wouldn’t have been as much time and money put into making and essentially restarting the show. The show has suffered from lowered ratings and has seen its rating fall from 12 million in early years to 8 million last year to barely 2 million.

Occasionally writers keep shows alive longer than they think they will. This has been true for years. In 2005, the CW surprised everyone when they approved the show Charmed for an eighth season even though they had so clearly tried to end it with season seven. The CW also renewed the show One Tree Hill in 2009 for an additional three seasons after what was thought to be the end of the show’s existence. And for these shows it worked. As they aired these unexpected season’s, people watched, and it seemed to work. But it is always just a matter of waiting to see how it turns out.

Glee is definitely funnier. The show only has a handful of episodes, so they are pushing the comedic boundaries and being as PG-13 as they dare. The jokes catch you off guard but also keep you laughing and make the show even more worth watching. Sue Sylvester contributes plenty to this comedy and has always been one of the most outrageous characters.

There are six episodes left in Glee’s repertoire and it is going to be a laugh of a time figuring out the ending to a six-year run. The show has done plenty in this time. They still have many chances and songs to make their run count. They have explored bounds of music, humanity and diversity, and even if the show goes down from here, they have had several successes that go far beyond the choir room.