Max Adler returns to GLEE for final season

I wandered away from GLEE a couple of seasons ago as the show seemed to settle into a rhythm that seemed "same old, same old."

But I may have to tune in again as I hear that Max Adler, who played reformed bully and gay football player, Dave Karofsky, is returning for the Fox musical's final season. Word is his character will be “romantically entangled” with Blaine. Adler will appear in at least 4 of the final 13 episodes.

Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy told reporters in April that the final season would feature a time jump and focus more on the core original cast members.  From the Hollywood Reporter:

"The final season is really its own story and its own location, and while the New York stuff will be alive, the final season is not New York-centric at all," Murphy said. "It really [will be] 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. .… We'll revisit some of the new kids that came and went. There's a return of the Jane-Matt characters in a big way. It's really interesting, a very sweet, satisfying ending to the story."

This all sounds like just the fix the show needs as those were the characters that were always the most compelling.