I realize that we're already four episodes into this season's most heavily hyped show, Glee (with #5 airing tonight), and I haven't weighed in on the subject at all. Well, I'm here to tell you all now that I'm a total Gleek.Like most people, I watched the summer pilot and waited anxiously for the first season to begin. So far, I haven't been disappointed. The cast is full of wonderfully talented newcomers and the always hilarious Jane Lynch, and everything is just so delightfully corny.
If I've been disappointed in anything, it's a lot of fans' reactions to last week's episode. Seems that everyone thinks that the football team's late-game rendition of "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" was a little too over-the-top and ridiculous. To these people I ask, "What the hell show do you think you're watching?" Seriously, if you're a fan of Glee, you should already have a healthy appreciation for cheesetastic displays. Of course it was ridiculous. Of course it would never happen in real life! Most of the stuff that happens on this show falls in that realm, so I don't understand why a dancing football team was somehow suddenly "too much." Finn even mentioned the Bears' infamous "Super Bowl Shuffle" to remind everyone that sometimes real-life athletes do really stupid and embarrassing things.
Honestly, I laughed harder at that scene than any other so far this season. So, more of the ridonk, please. Bring it on!
What I could do without is the bizarre pregnancy storyline that's obviously heading right for "baby switch" territory. That's just a really lame plot that's been done to death on every soap opera since the beginning of time. I'd been hoping it would wrap up soon, but I just read that last week's show was the beginning of a five-episode story arc. Ugh.
I suppose the silver lining in that is Mark Salling's character, Puck (aka Hot Mohawk Guy - pictured above), has been thrown into that storyline as Quinn's real baby daddy. Oh yes. MUCH more of him, please. Write him into every scene. And there should definitely be more scenes of him doing his shirtless pool boy gig.
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*hanging head in shame*
After three movies of ridonkulous moments, we get upset that Indiana Jones hides from a nuclear bomb in a lead-lined fridge. As if up to that moment his movies were Ken Burns docudramas.
The football team dancing is over the top, but the wife and her fake pregnancy and her conspirator sister are the stuff of everyday Americana.
God I enjoy this show...
It makes me happy every Wednesday.
As far as the storylines I agree with you, they are not too over the top, it's freakin' Glee!!!!
I'd take Finn over Puck any day :)
He's hawwwtttt
They kind of won me back with the super funny, super hot Kristin Chenoweth. But it looks like she was only on one episode, so this show is in week to week danger of being cut.
I really enjoyed the over-the-top football scenes, but I can do without the baby-torn-out-of-the-womb implications of the pregnancy scenario.