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Includes the first 13 episodes of season one.
- Never expected it, but I love Glee, and so
does my family
When I first heard of Glee, about a group of outsider high school
students who find something to care about as they take part in glee
club, I thought for sure it was going to be a "high school musical" type
sap-fest, and that I'd hate it. Still, we happened to catch the second
episode on television and after that we were hooked. We caught up, and
kept watching and now we can't wait until the second part of the first
season this spring. My early teenaged kids purchased and listen to the
music on their ipods, and love to sing along. In spite of my early
reservations and expectations, I found the show taking me back to my own
high school days when I played minor roles in a few community musical
theater shows and loved it even though I instinctively knew it wouldn't
win me any popularity contests among my fellow students.
There's an infectious joy to the musical numbers, and the story has
the poignancy mixed with darkly hilarious viciousness and acts of
deception between rivals that my wife and I had come to love in
Desperate Housewives, just never quite as dark. It's funny and
touching, and always entertaining. Jane Lynch is perfect as Sue
Sylvester, the ambitious and arrogant "cheerio" coach you can't help but
love to hate. Lea Michele brings a brilliant mixture of insecurity and
overconfidence to the role of the lead glee club singer. All of the
actors are extremely talented.
At bottom, it's intelligently written high school soap opera, played
by extremely talented actors and performers. There's nothing profound
here, but it doesn't try to be. Still, there's an intriguing social
edge to this show, as the students deal with issues such as homophobia
and racism, handicaps, gender roles, teenage promiscuity and pregnancy,
drugs, bullying, infidelity, intolerance, and gossip, but the writers
avoid the usual cliches and platitudes that often tend to surround these
issues. The show manages to raise awareness and provoke thought
without raising the red flag of "political correctness." It's a lot of
fun to watch, and demonstrates that every once in a while primetime
television can still manage to surprise and delight.
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