But with the evolution and current devolution of Brittana happening before our eyes, I have to wonder: What is in Glee for gay women anymore? Fans of the Brittany S. Pierce and Santana Lopez coupling have watched gleefully as the twosome went from simple background dancers to ponytail twirling besties to friends with scissoring benefits.
The pairing has delighted us with the little moments — a pinky hold here, a head rest there. What started being played for laughs — mean girl Santana and her dumb blond sidekick Brittany — took on new meaning as the show progressed. Women, particularly young women, recognized their own sometimes complex, sometimes unlabeled relationships in Brittana. I have this best friend, we love each other and are together all the time, sometimes we kiss, sometimes we do more.
But a complicated onscreen relationship is one thing, a completely nonsensical one is entirely another. Characters can develop in surprising ways, and they should. But they should never wholesale abandon their fundamental character. How did Brittany and Santana get to this point? Santana and Brittany hold hands and while on a double-date with Finn offer to make out in front of him.
She is just with her because Puck is in juvie. But Artie breaks up with Brittany after Santana tells him she was just using him. Shue also mentions that Brittany pantsed Santana once after a Cheerios win. Santana and Brittany go on a double date with Puck and Artie.
But they both leave with Puck, leaving Artie with the bill. First, creator Ryan Murphy confirmed that Santana and Brittany were indeed sleeping together.
Then he said he would never show them kissing because it was primetime TV. Then he said they were filming a kiss. After junior prom, Mercedes and Sam begin dating secretly, but he moves away during the summer. Mercedes has a new boyfriend, Shane, by the beginning of the third season.
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In the third episode, Mercedes quits the glee club and joins the new, rival McKinley show choir, the Troubletones, run by Shelby Corcoran, later recruiting Santana and Brittany to join her. Sam returns to McKinley and attempts to rekindle his romance with Mercedes. She still has feelings for him, and eventually breaks up with Shane, though she refuses to date Sam while she is unsure of her true feelings. Sam continues to support her, and a YouTube video he posts of Mercedes singing results in her being offered a job as a backup singer in Los Angeles after she graduates.
In the fourth season , Mercedes has moved there and is taking classes at UCLA as well as being a backup singer, though she returns to help with the school musical, [77] for Thanksgiving, [23] and for Mr. Santana Lopez Naya Rivera is a cheerleader who joins the glee club in the episode " Showmance ". Initially a spy for cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, she comes to enjoy her club participation. Having originated as a minor antagonist, Santana's role became more prominent in the second half of the first season , [80] and she became a main character in season two. She might not be ready to come out yet, but she is.
During the season three premiere, as a show of loyalty to Sue, she participates in setting one of the glee club's pianos on fire and is dismissed from New Directions by Mr. She returns briefly to the club, and then abandons it for the new, rival McKinley show choir, the Troubletones, run by Shelby Corcoran, but when the Troubletones lose to New Directions at Sectionals and disband, she returns again.
She starts dating Brittany. This is initially kept a secret, but after being outed as a lesbian by Finn, the relationship becomes public knowledge.
Due to this, Santana is disowned by her grandmother. The New Directions, however, support Santana during her coming-out period. At Brittany's suggestion, Sue arranges for Santana to get a cheerleading scholarship to a top college program, though at graduation, Santana decides she wants to go to New York to perform, and her mother presents her with the money to help fund the attempt. But she changes her mind over the summer and accepts the cheerleading scholarship, which is to a school in Louisville, Kentucky, later breaking up with Brittany due to the distance.
Santana later gets back together with Brittany in the final season, and marries her, along with Blaine and Kurt. He makes his first appearance in the fifth episode of season four. He is a sophomore student at McKinley High School and plays football. Finn notices something special about him and encourages Ryder to audition for the school's upcoming production of Grease. Ryder tries out with a duet with Finn and gets chosen as the lead for the musical alongside Marley Rose Melissa Benoist.
Before the production begins, he finds Marley trying to make herself vomit in the bathroom. He helps her with her self-esteem issues and kisses her as Jake Puckerman Jacob Artist looks on. Ryder joins the glee club in the episode Dynamic Duets and romantic tension builds between him and Marley. Jake and Ryder start competing for Marley's affection. Finn wants their rivalry to end and he gives them the assignment to sing a duet together. The duet ends in another fight between them and Finn asks them to reveal their greatest fear to each other.
When Jake gives Ryder a note with his fear written on it, Ryder asks him to be a man and say it face to face. When Jake reveals his fear, Ryder backs out. Jake tells him to be a man as well, and Ryder admits he asked Jake to say it out loud because he couldn't read what the note said. Jake tells Finn about this and Finn convinces Ryder to do a test to see what's wrong with him. The test proves that Ryder is dyslexic. He is directed to a professional and begins treatment to improve his studying. Later, when Jake is picked on, Ryder stands up for him and thanks Jake for helping him with his problem and the two start a friendship.
When Jake and Marley begin dating, Ryder struggles with his feelings for her. However, valuing his friendship with Jake and Marley's happiness, Ryder decides to suppress his feelings and be happy for them.
In the episode I Do, Ryder helps Jake plan a Valentine's week for Marley, coming up with romantic ideas and when Jake says that he's counting on having sex with Marley, Ryder says she isn't ready for that. Marley later thanks Ryder for his romantic gestures, saying she knew he was behind them and Ryder ends up kissing her.
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He later apologizes to both Jake and Marley, saying it was inappropriate. In the episode Feud, Ryder has an online love interest named Katie, whom he shares all his secrets with, only to find out he's being catfished. He later finds out that "Katie" is someone in the glee club when he calls the number while being in the choir room and the phone goes off. In the episode Lights Out, Ryder confides in the glee club and tells them he was molested by his female babysitter when he was 11 years old and he has trouble trusting people because of it.
Some of the guys think that's awesome and they say he shouldn't feel ashamed. Later in the episode, Kitty Becca Tobin tells Ryder she understands how he feels because she went through a similar situation and the two bond. Kitty starts to like Ryder and he says they could try being together once he figures out who "Katie" is.
Kitty is hurt and tells him no.
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In the season finale All or Nothing, Ryder demands to know who is catfishing him and Unique later reveals herself. Ryder is furious and announces he is leaving the New Directions after Regionals. In season five, Ryder returns to the New Directions, contrary to his statement at the end of the previous season.
Ryder continues to pursue Marley, and even goes on a date with her following her breakup with Jake in the episode "Movin' Out". However, Marley dumps him at the end of the episode and little is shown of their development until nationals, when Ryder and Jake decide to help her go farther with her songwriting. She was originally hired as a choreographer to teach cast members Colfer and Ushkowitz the " Single Ladies " dance. A week later, she was cast as Brittany. Morris portrays Brittany as being "literally insane".
She is used by the series' writers to say things no other character would, to the point that Morris considers some of her lines nonsensical.