Kevin Machale: Last News

Glee didn’t learn this lesson soon enough, and its fourth & final holiday episode—season 5’s utterly batsh*t and controversial “Previously Unaired Christmas”—is a big old lump of coal.Long dubbed problematic by even the most ardent Gleeks, it’s recently come to light that, yes, much of the cast now acknowledge what a mess the episode was and, no, they didn’t have fun filming it either!Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.On a recent edition of And That’s What You REALLY Missed, Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz’s popular Glee rewatch podcast, the stars reminisced on a time when all was not merry and bright. In fact, McHale—who played wheelchair-bound Artie Abrams—referred to the episode as “an actual breaking point.”“I was so angry in everything in this episode,” Ushkowitz, who played fellow McKinley High student Tina Cohen-Chang, admitted.To be fair, “Previously Unaired Christmas” was at least trying to push the envelope.