Max Adler went from "Glee" villain to fan favorite after his closeted character Dave Karofsky attempted suicide in Season Three. Fans may change their tune again when they see why Karofsky returns in the Fox series' sixth and final season.
The former McKinley High tormentor will appear in at least four of the 13 finals episodes and "may now be romantically entangled with Blaine," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The development seems questionable, given that Blaine's relationship with on-again boyfriend Kurt Hummel seemed in a good place at the end of season five.
"Glee" creator Ryan Murphy did confirm the new season would make a time jump that could explain Blaine's new beau.
"Everything sort of builds to a head [in the fifth season finale]," Murphy told reporters in May. "I would say explosion is too harsh of a word, but something big happens, and then the final season is the aftermath of that."
Adler last appeared in the fifth-season episode "Opening Night." Karofsky shows up in a bad dream Rachel Berry has before she makes her Broadway debut in "Funny Girl."
He started on the show as a tough football player who picked on the New Directions members, especially Kurt. It wasn't until he kissed Kurt in the locker room in season two that everyone realized why he had been such a bully.
The shortened last season will focus on the original core group sans Cory Monteith, who died of a drug overdose last summer. It will have "its own story and its own location," but all the action won't be in New York as it was at the end of last season, according to Murphy.
"It really is a lovely, fitting season that dwells on the original people that were on the show and what happens to them and how they give back. That really is the last season, but I'm not going to say more," he said.
