"The Rise and Fall of Sue Sylvester" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of the American musical television series Glee, and the 118th overall.
The episode takes place as a tragedy to Dalton Academy causes rival groups New Directions and the Warblers to unite, and the lies surrounding Sue Sylvester come to a climactic head that results in her being fired and exposed on television, and yet she somehow recovers.
New Directions members Alistair (Finneas O'Connell), Jane Hayward (Samantha Marie Ware), Mason McCarthy (Billy Lewis Jr.), Madison McCarthy (Laura Dreyfuss), Myron Muskovitz (Josie Totah), Spencer Porter (Marshall Williams), Roderick Meeks (Noah Guthrie), and Kitty Wilde (Becca Tobin) practice a song for Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) when Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) and Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) arrive.
Regular recurring guest actors were (in order of crediting): Christopher Cousins as Superintendent Bob Harris, Max George as Clint, Becca Tobin as Kitty Wilde, Bill A. Jones as Rod Remington, Earlene Davis as Andrea Carmichael, Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson, Samuel Larsen as Joe Hart, Marshall Williams as Spencer Porter, Noah Guthrie as Roderick, Billy Lewis Jr. as Mason McCarthy, Laura Dreyfuss as Madison McCarthy, Samantha Marie Ware as Jane Hayward, Justin Prentice as Darrell, Josie Totah as Myron Muskovitz, and Finneas O'Connell as Alistair.
"Rather Be" by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne is sung by Dreyfuss, Guthrie, Lewis Jr., O'Connell, Tobin, Totah, Ware, and Williams.
"[4] Christopher Rogers from Hollywood Life was shocked to see that "After everything Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) has ever done to the students at McKinley High, we never thought Becky Jackson (Lauren Potter) would be the one to defeat her.
Club's Brandon Nowalk rated the episode a B− and stated that "it's a pleasant surprise that it flies by with a go-for-broke late-season sense of adventure.
"[6] Miranda Wicker from TV Fanatic loved how the episode was "about underdogs who became champions, and even when they don't stay on top forever, they keep moving forward.