A Glee revival is, right now, a thought Murphy said out loud to a reporter, with no network, no format, and no timeline attached. The case for a Glee revival starts right there, with an audience that showed up fifteen years late and stayed. Any Glee revival has to reckon with the fact that a full reunion is impossible, and that for many fans the nostalgia such a project would trade on is braided together with real grief. Nobody is currently making a big, earnest, network-scale musical about teenagers, which is precisely the opening a Glee revival would need to feel like an event instead of an echo. My read is that Murphy means it this time, mostly because the audience did the work for him.