So I’ve watched two episodes of Glee.
One thing worries me: In the pilot, the heavies are perfectly unsympathetic, & the heroes are pretty strongly flawed. It risks being a show where everyone is unlikeable.
The second ep starts to show some humanity in previously unsympathetic characters, so there’s hope.
I like it so far, and am planning to keep watching.
The musical numbers are a hoot, and there’s enough plot (the two love triangles, the psycho cheerleading coach) to keep things moving along.
I love it and will definitely keep watching. I am concerned that Jane Lynch is just being given lines like “I will crush you” and twirling her figurative mustache. The bit about her flipping out about 77 cents worth of photocopying was good, though.
I love the school counselor. And the male lead (Will, not Finn) is pretty cool, seems to have some real musical ability.
On last night’s, I started digging the principal when he was grooving to “Push It.”
I liked the pilot, or whatever episode they ran a couple months ago. I watched last night for a few minutes but the teacher’s wife was just too ditzy and I turned it off. I’ll get my Jane Lynch fix from Two and a Half men reruns.
But if you guys tell me that she gets forever lost in that big house they’re buying, I’ll give it another go.
Esp. when the next scene is the principal on his hands and knees scraping up the mess.
I laughed like a lunatic when the counselor caught the lovelorn girl (sorry, haven’t started learning names yet) trying to throw up, and the girl said something about not having a decent gag reflex, and the counselor said “some day you’ll be grateful for that.” Laughed and laughed and laughed.
Did you catch the titles of the pamphlets on the shelf behind the counselor? “DIVORCE: Why Your Parents Stopped Loving You.” “So You Like Throwing Up.” “Wow, There’s a Hair Down There.” “I Can’t Stop Touching Myself.” “My Mom’s Bipolar and She Won’t Stop YELLING.”
Sue got a note from her doctor saying her lupus prevents her from bending over a bucket of soapy water. Last week she had hepatitis!
I like that they are expanding their universe ever so slightly from the first episode - adding the wife’s sister, the celibacy club geek, giving the cheerios a musical number, even the baby doctor was interesting.
I also enjoyed that they are moving further from the pilot. Sure, its only the second show, but having a wide net of characters (I’m very glad that they made the Glee club have to come up with at least 12 singers) will keep the show from getting too stale. And Jane Lynch has some incredible one liners. I lost it completely when she said “EUTHANIZE IT”.
So I watched both the pilot and 1st episode yesterday. I enjoyed both, especially cracked up when the main girl, Rachel, was in the guidance couselor’s office and asked her ‘Have you ever liked someone so much that you wanted to lock yourself in your room and listen to sad songs?’ (or something close to that) and they flashback to the guidance counselor in her car singing “All By Myself” crying hysterically. Not sure why, but I was definately laughing out loud at that one.
I just hope they don’t do too many songs that are clearly fake (e.g. “Gold Digger”, which was entertaining but clearly voiced over). But it’s a TV show, so I’ll have to suspend reality a bit and just enjoy.
And good for Finn for sticking up for the kid in the wheelchair when the football jocks wanted to tip him over in a port-a-potty.
I hope this show stays for a while. I’ll keep watching.
I think all their songs are “fake”, in that they’ve sang them earlier and then are lip syncing them while filming scenes for the show (in that its probably incredibly hard to sing them while filming, what with all the takes and what not).
So far so good, but hope they keep more music in the show and don’t put that on the backburners.
The subplot with needy wife is already annoying though.
I like they added some of the “cool kids”, and it will be fun to watch as the group gets larger and the musical numbers get better - plus the previews seem to indicate better choreography coming up soon. It could turn into a comedy “Fame” show, which is an interesting concept.
Will continue to watch. (I was in high school choir and college theater productions, so it is fun to watch a lot of that dynamic of rehearsals, in-fighting, puppy love, competitions, etc).
“All these songs have ‘Jesus’ or ‘Balloon’ in the title!” lol
They need to lay off on the vocorder a little - that last song sounded like “auto-tune the news” almost.
I’m glad we won’t have to wait another 4 months for the next episode!
That’s the scene I came in on last night- we laughed enough to give the show another shot.
Brunette (sorry, I don’t know their names yet): What’s a Luft Balloon?
Forgot to ask- was the implication that the jock dude in the glee club had a climax when he and the girl were kissing on the stage? It’s the first thing that came to mind but then I’m like “no, they wouldn’t do that. woud they?”
Yep, that was the implication. Hence the accident flashback.
The flashback prevented climax. It’s what he thinks about when he gets too excited. I really enjoy this show, but my husband can’t stand it. I’m sitting there giggling like an idiot, and he’s groaning in the background and wondering just who he married! I tell him not to complain and to let me have my cheesy show; the rest of the time, I’m a beer drinking, hockey and football watching mechanical engineer student!
Oh, heck. It’s on Fox. You know what that means… They’re gonna try to kill it.
I was wondering about that. Are real “show choirs” allowed to perform to prerecorded songs? That sounds wrong to me. Isn’t it supposed to be first and foremost about the singing and not the performance?
And in the pilot episode, when they visited the other school and saw their performance, was that one also prerecorded? It sounded too good to be miked live.
I really loved the first episode and also liked the second except for this:
Yeah this really took me out of the show. The previous episode’s musical numbers seemed like they were really singing.
Lip synching is fine, being dubbed by other people is not, and being dubbed by other people with voices not even remotely resembling the actors is ridiculous, especially since the performances in the first episode were great.
I also felt like there was a lot of story in the second episode. It felt like a couple of episodes worth of story to me - they addressed things that I thought would be arcs over a good portion of the season. It’s great, but I hope they don’t run out of story lol.
I remember hearing about how Glee was all dark and subversive, and I didn’t get any of that from the pilot. Then they hit a mailman with a car to avoid a Cinco de Mayo in the pants.
Man, that was a significant improvement. They haven’t fleshed out the side characters yet, but I have hope. It seems fairly obvious they toned it all down for the pilot just to get picked up.