Disney is rebooting Glee for its own streaming platforms, bringing back the show that spent six seasons pushing LGBT storylines and progressive social messaging into American living rooms under the cover of a high school musical — and Lea Michele is first in line to reprise her starring role.

The reboot, ordered for Disney+ and Hulu, marks Hollywood's latest effort to recycle the culture-war entertainment of the Obama era for a new generation of children. The original series, which ran on Fox from 2009 to 2015, became a vehicle for normalizing homosexuality, same-sex parenting, and progressive orthodoxy inside a school setting. Now the industry that championed it then is celebrating its return.

Multiple sources confirm Michele is in talks to return as Rachel Berry. Variety reported one source saying plainly: "She's in." Another told Variety: "It's still early-ish days, but it feels good and we're happy to get the band back together." Deadline confirmed the talks as well.

Creator Ryan Murphy, writing with original collaborators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, told Entertainment Tonight he's been in touch with "around 10 of the original cast members." BBC quoted him adding: "It's very sweet, they all had a lot of questions but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea. Nobody's read it, so we'll see."

Michele herself told E! News she'd gladly return: "I love Glee. I will always love Glee. I love Ryan Murphy. It just holds such a special place in my heart for me… I will follow Ryan wherever he goes."

The original Glee was set at William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. BBC framed the show as "tackling topics such as sexuality, race, disability and mental health" — the kind of language that signals social engineering dressed up as entertainment. The series finale featured Rachel Berry becoming a surrogate mother for the same-sex couple of Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson, a storyline Variety noted without comment, as though surrogacy for a gay couple were simply a plot point rather than a cultural statement.

Chris Colfer, who played Kurt Hummel — described by BBC as "the flamboyant singer and original choir member who faces bullying" — told Bustle the reboot would be difficult following the death of Naya Rivera, who played Santana Lopez. "It was a really tough show to do, and it would be really hard to do it now that Naya is gone," Colfer said. "But I do know that Glee fans would probably come after me with pitchforks and jazz hands if I said no."

Variety noted that cast members Heather Morris and Chord Overstreet have already posted on social media suggesting they'll return. Deadline reported that Matthew Morrison is not currently in talks but is "hopeful" to be included.

The reboot is produced by 20th Television — a Disney subsidiary. Disney owns the studio, owns the streaming platforms, and owns the distribution. The same corporation that championed LGBT content across its brands is now commissioning a show from its own studio to run on its own platform, and the content just happens to advance the same social messaging Disney has pushed company-wide.

Even BBC's own interview subject, singer Max George, admitted the original show "was probably coming towards the end in terms of the storylines." A decade later, Hollywood isn't fresh out of ideas — it's returning to the ones that moved the culture. The question isn't whether the reboot entertains. It's whose children they're targeting next.