She and Brittany make attempts at a long-distance relationship, although they break up when they agree it won't work in "The Break Up". Later, Kurt and Rachel are shown attempting to adjust to Santana, who is making herself at home in the loft a little too quickly for their comfort. Brittany says that she was up late the night before reading ‘Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (Left Behind No. Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, queer Latina and Afro-Latinx representation, Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show, Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2, The Quarterback (Music from the TV Series), "Video: 'Glee' team rewrites the school musical", "Meet Cory Monteith & Naya Rivera of Glee", "Naya Rivera From 'Glee' Talks Santana, Singing and Spencer Pratt", "Spoiler Chat: Is Jenny Humphrey a Gossip Girl Homewrecker? She attends William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. After a jealous unsuccessful attempt to break up her exes Sam and Brittany in "Diva", Santana realizes she belongs in New York with Rachel and Kurt and moves in with them. She might not be ready to come out yet, but she is. However, Kurt disagrees with their decision, but Santana insults him by telling him that Blaine broke off his proposal because Kurt is weird. Club deemed it the best storyline of the episode, saying it was almost alone the reason the episode received a "B". In "The Back-Up Plan", Santana helps Mercedes to finish her album. She asked Brittany if they can go home and then said that she that she doesn’t think this club is good for Brittany. Santana is often tough in her relationships with other people, she shows the softer side to her personality when she is with Brittany. When a promotional clip for the episode "Sectionals" indicated that Brittany and Santana had slept together, Dorothy Snarker, writing for lesbian entertainment website AfterEllen.com, praised the pairing, referring to them by the portmanteau "Brittana". Santana is introduced alongside Quinn and Brittany as one of the three most popular cheerleaders at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, where the show is set. They were in the Celibacy Club, Cheerios, and Glee Club together. Santana is portrayed by Naya Rivera. He wins prom king, but Santana is not named queen; instead, it is Kurt. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [64][65][66] In Tracy L. Hawkins' chapter in the 2014 book Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, she explains that until Glee, and particularly the complexity of Santana's seasons-long coming out journey, all stories of television characters revealing their sexuality followed certain norms that play into stereotypes and did not focus on the character themselves. Improved Home Page Sam Evans is a major character on Glee. In Season Four, Sam starts dating Brittany, which leads to severe tension between him and Brittany's ex-girlfriend Santana. As this feud finds its ways to be solved, Ezra and Aria try to find a way to solve it on … She is present for the Sectionals performance, and her suspicions appear to be confirmed when Marley collapses on stage due to starvation and anxiety. The next day, Santana is at Breadstix with Brittany, attending the Rapture-based Left Behind club which is run byKitty. Brittany starts to stand up and tells Santana that they should go help Dottie. Santana and Brittany then return in "What the World Needs Now" to deal with Santana's disapproving grandmother Alma – with whom she hasn't spoken since coming out as a lesbian. Santana however says that she likes being in college and she being a cheerleader, plus she likes to be closer to where Brittany lives. She called the scene where Santana confessed her feelings for Brittany one of the best moments of the season. The Brittany-Santana Relationship, commonly referred to as Brittana or Santittany, is the romantic relationship and friendship between Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez. [27] Rivera commented: "Santana's been wreaking havoc with people's boyfriends and people's babies and teachers—she's the high school terror, and she's going to continue to be the villain." When her supposed apology to Finn becomes another stream of insults, he accuses her of being a coward for tearing other people down because she can't admit that she's in love with Brittany, thus outing her in a crowded public hallway. Brittany starts yawning and Santana asks if she is okay. Sandra Gonzalez of Entertainment Weekly was somewhat surprised by the storyline, observing that Santana had not previously been portrayed as "so serious and vulnerable", but enjoyed the depth it brought to her character. There is another girl looking at Santana and she smiles at Santana, who smiles back. She visits Ohio for Christmas in "Glee, Actually" and visits Kurt and Rachel in New York in the episode "Naked". She has several romantic relationships, briefly dating Puck (Mark Salling), taking Finn Hudson's (Cory Monteith) virginity, and carrying on a friends with benefits relationship with Brittany. [...] On a show where we’re meant to accept that the characters do whatever the fuck the writers need them to from scene to scene, the storyline of Santana realizing she was in love with Brittany and [...] is probably a lesbian has been nicely plotted and surprisingly deep. They're in love. The premiere date was postponed for a week due to Cory Monteith's death, It was originally set to premiere on September 19. When the two are accused of giving Sue the New Directions set list for their first show choir competition, Santana defends herself and admits that she has come to enjoy participating in the club. Although Santana continues to step over others to get what she wants, she exhibits moments of compassion and loyalty to the glee club. [63], In the 2013 book Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Rivera and Santana are discussed. Because of that, Mercedes asked Santana to sign a contract so that Santana could sing a duet with Mercedes in the latter's album. https://gleethenewgeneration.fandom.com/wiki/Santana_Lopez?oldid=4158. [54] At the 2011 ALMA Awards, Rivera was nominated in the Favorite TV Actress – Leading Role in a Comedy category. "[34] By the middle of the third season, Santana is both out to her peers, and in a public romantic relationship with Brittany. In season three, Santana and Brittany rejoin the Cheerios, and Sue appoints Santana co-captain along with Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter). During the school day, they are constantly together and they sitBehind the scenes of Hell-OAdded by Lopierce4evatogether during Glee Club meetings. Brittany and Mercedes will meet her in Reno for Mercedes' mall tour. Introduced as a minor antagonist and a sidekick to Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) in the first episode of Glee, Santana's role grew over the course of the show's first season. [55], The character of Santana had a positive impact on U.S. television, providing rare queer Latina and Afro-Latinx representation on prime time television and laying the foundation for similar characters and stories to follow. They are overheard, and Santana's now-revealed lesbianism is used in an "attack" ad against Sue by one of her opponents in the congressional election campaign. "[42], VanDerWerff praised the character development of Santana, calling it the highlight of the episode "Born This Way". She is seen as a bitchy cheerleader who remarks on her cruel attitude. 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Pierce (Heather Morris) and Mike Chang (Harry Shum, Jr.) return to Lima for the glee club's last week.For their 100th assignment, glee club director Will Schuester … Glee: The New Generation Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Santana and Brittany return briefly in the series finale "Dreams Come True" for a last performance with the rest of the Glee Cast. At the end of it they are both in tears. The episode was written by Ross Maxwell, directed by executive producer Bradley Buecker, and first aired on February 20, 2015 on Fox in the United States.. They frequently held hands and linked pinkies all through season one. Introduced as a minor antagonist and a sidekick to Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) in the first episode of Glee, Santana's role grew over the course of the show's first season Brittany just gets Santana, even though a lot of people don’t like her. I think that they should end up together. [51] Also that year, Rivera was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress/Television category at the Imagen Awards,[52] and she and her co-stars won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. She sang Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" with Artie, Blaine, Kurt, Maggie, Mercedes, Rachel, and Sam. She is also the new McKinley High Senior Student Body President for 2012. [7] When Puck briefly dates Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), Santana is jealous and confronts her with an aggressive duet of "The Boy Is Mine". The flashback ends and Santana’s voice breaks as she admitted that she had an attraction. [58] Elements of her queer representation were discussed. Rocky Horror Glee Show Edit Santana (along with Quinn and Brittany) flirtatiously and playfully joke about Sam's abs, admiring them. The character was portrayed by the late Naya Rivera, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. [56][57][58][59][60][61][62] Summarizing her multi-faceted representation, Refinery29's Ariana Romero explained that "Santana isn't merely an unapologetic Latina – itself a painful rarity on-screen, particularly [during Glee's run] – but she is unapologetically Afro-Latina". She finds the show's pacing challenging, especially the dancing, and commented in June 2009 that her most memorable moment on Glee was performing the Cheerios' glee club audition piece, "I Say a Little Prayer". She goes on a break with Brittany and then leans forward to give Brittany a kiss and hugs her too. She continued, "The best thing about this episode is Naya Rivera’s work as Santana and the story the three writers have cooked up for her. In Acafellas, Santana along with Quinn and Brittany, encourages Mercedes to go out with Kurt i… 1 Biography 1.1 Season One 1.1.1 … Introduced as a minor antagonist and a sidekick to Quinn Fabray … Santana joins Kurt's new band in the episode "A Katy or a Gaga" and suggests that they name the band the Apocalypsticks, which is shot down by Kurt. On 22 August 2013, it was announced that Demi Lovato … Naya worked hard to give that gift to so many",[71] and California senator Kamala Harris wrote in a tweet that Rivera inspired "countless young LGBTQ+ people to unapologetically be themselves". At the beginning of season six, Santana, Brittany and the rest of Glee Club alumni return to McKinley High School in "Homecoming". When she finishes, Brittany mentions that Santana could follow her dream too and go to New York, since her mom gave her money. She and Brittany are wed in a double ceremony with Kurt and Blaine, because Brittany wanted it that way, in the eighth episode "A Wedding". Brittany asks her why she has to come back to Lima to do laundry, and Santana replies that she heard a rumour the first week that all the water in Louisville is just purified runoff from the Kentucky derby stables. Santana was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan.