Here are some of the recent developments on Glee.
1) Rachel was becoming more of a team player and appreciating her fellow glee club members. So, of course, in this episode, she had the gall to call herself the neglected artist of Glee club after the team unanimously voted her freaking MVP after Regionals.
2) Last year, Sue Sylvester saved New Directions from losing their funding and even voted for them to win Regionals. So, of course, this year, she’s more evil than ever and doing anything to drestroy them. Clearly, the writers don’t know what else to do with her character. Sue is played out, even though Jane Lynch is wonderful.
3) Jenna Uskhowitz, truly the most neglected cast member of the show, has proven in the past to be a very good singer and a very bad crier. So, of course, the writers included another scenario where Tina finally, FINALLY gets a solo…that’s interrupted by hecklers so she can cry some more.
4) This year, Glee has performed Top 40 hit after Top 40 hit, neglecting more classic or interesting artists in favor of making cardboard copies of mediocre “music” garbage that’s currently on the radio. For this episode, they finally decided to perform a lovely, ethereal song by Adele. So, of course, they gave it to Gwyneth Paltrow.
(Just in case anyone was counting, here are the Broadway stars on Glee who have had fewer songs than Gwyneth Paltrow: Victor Garber. Debra Monk. Neil Patrick Harris. Idina Menzel. Cheyenne Jackson. Jonathan Groff. Even Kristin Chenoweth has, by now, had fewer songs than Gwyneth Paltrow.)
Oh, Glee. I hate so much about the things you choose to be.
The three things that made this episode watchable: Cheyenne Jackson being hot. Mike Chang dancing. Prince Blaine defending the honor of his fair maiden, Prince Kurt, against the evil beast Karofsky, aided by the fiery good witch Santana Lopez.
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Yes! Yes, yes, and yes. This is my new favorite blog for many reasons, but your take on Glee may be the very best thing I’ve read so far (maybe because my relationship with this show is an inch away from being all the way over on the hate side of the love-hate continuum). There is no limit to how much Gwyneth Paltrow annoys me. As the ladies at Jezebel noted in reaction to her little “people are jealous of celebrities on the internet” thing, she is just tone deaf about so many things.
Aww, thanks! Yes, I find that I’m inching more and more into “hate” territory with every episode, but as long as Kurt and Blaine are on this show, it still has its hooks in me but good. *sigh*
Have you read this about Gwyneth: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keli-goff/gwyneth-paltrow-is-right-_b_850798.html. I thought it was spot-on in talking about why she’s so annoying.
Exactly! The beneficiaries of nepotism are perfectly capable of living their lives graciously and quietly, but if they put themselves in the public eye as adults and then whine about jealousy and hard work, they have to be able to acknowledge their privilege.
I’m right there with you. I’ll keep watching Glee because of Brittany, Santana and Mike Chang, but the show is absurd and lacks any kind of logic. In addition to all the things you mentioned, I thought it was kind of ridiculous how they were supposed to be raising $250 for the Brainiacs, and yet they could have 30 or 40 person choirs in not one, but two performances (Gwyneth’s and Mercedes’). Not to mention the full band behind Tina. Is New Directions just exempt from paying bands/choirs or something?
Mike Chang’s simple set and mop-lady (which I absolutely loved!) make more sense.
The mop-lady was great. Band people coming out of nowhere to back them up…that’s something I don’t mind as much. I think it fits in well with the show being somewhat fantastical in nature. (After all, how many people really just burst into song at any given notice?) One thing I DON’T like, though, is the notion that New Directions has won Regionals and they’re still the underdogs of the school. It’s getting more and more difficult to buy the conceit of them as “underdogs” when their assemblies get huge amounts of applause and devolve into Britney Spears sex riots.