Despite all its issues, Glee has had a lot of success with exploring the challenges of being gay. I have some issues with how and why Kurt jumped to Dalton last year, but the only good part of season two was his season-long journey to coming out and self-acceptance. The series took Kurt’s challenges and … Continue reading Review: Glee, “I Kissed A Girl”
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Review: Glee, “The First Time”
When I read sometime last month that Glee would be doing an episode centered on Rachel and Kurt losing their respective virginities, I shuddered. A few times. Even though this season of Glee has been relatively solid (let’s just pretend last week’s episode never, ever happened OK?), I am always worried when the series decides … Continue reading Review: Glee, “The First Time”
Review: Glee, “Asian F”
In my review of the Glee season three premiere a few weeks ago, I spent some time talking about how formulaic the series’ has tended to be. For some reason, instead of trying new things with the characters, the production staff loves to have them repeat similar or near-exact stories that worked (and worked better) … Continue reading Review: Glee, “Asian F”
Season Premiere review — Glee, “The Purple Piano Project”
Glee is a formulaic series. For all its insanity, uneven character work and ridiculous logic, we pretty much know exactly what to expect from the series on a weekly basis. Ryan Murphy and company have pin-pointed a few things that they think the audience enjoys and they just keep hammering away with them. This isn’t … Continue reading Season Premiere review — Glee, “The Purple Piano Project”
Glee, “Blame It on the Alcohol”
I've already gone back and forth on "Blame It on the Alcohol" a few times since it finished airing here almost four hours ago. While I was watching it, I kind of liked it. Then afterwards, I kind of hated it. Then I went back and forth a few more times before just decided to … Continue reading Glee, “Blame It on the Alcohol”
Glee, “The Sue Sylvester Shuffle”
Although so much of the discourse has focused on how Glee and the Super Bowl seem like such an insane and difficult pairing, I tend to believe the opposite is actually true. The Super Bowl is most certainly the greatest spectacle in America. It's all about the grandiose, the loud, the bright, etc. For better or … Continue reading Glee, “The Sue Sylvester Shuffle”
Glee, “The Substitute”
The last two episodes of Glee have been generally awful. I mean just dreadful, two of the worst in the series' run. Perhaps it's because of that -- though not only because of that, as I'll argue -- that I found "The Substitute" to be an insanely fun episode of the series, despite it's very, … Continue reading Glee, “The Substitute”
Glee, “Never Been Kissed”
On the surface, one could make an argument that Glee has always been interested in the bullying that happens in high schools -- or at least its fictional Ohio high school -- and so with the horrible outbreak of bullying-related suicides, particularly by homosexuals, the series seemed like the prime candidate to spread a "message" … Continue reading Glee, “Never Been Kissed”
Season Premiere — Glee, “Audition”
Like many critics and faux-critics, I had a number of issues with the back-nine of Glee's first season. And the events of the summer -- additional cast members, more theme episodes and Ryan Murphy's hyperbole about dialing it back -- there wasn't a lot to suggest things were going to improve. If there is any … Continue reading Season Premiere — Glee, “Audition”
