And believe it or not, Billy Lewis Jr., who plays one of the twins, identifies as straight. Never would have guessed it from the show.
That kid is fantastic, and his vocal type is one the show has been missing, but it ticks me off that he’s been so underused. The Interwebs tells me that the performer (Noah Guthrie) is a singer with no previous acting experience, which may explain why they haven’t had him speak much so far, but not why he’s only had two songs. We didn’t even get to see his duet with the twin girl a couple of weeks back. Instead we got a Becky subplot, because the writers hate us.
That scene would have been more amusing to me had Rachel not gone on to refer to Unique as “cross-dressing Mercedes”. This seemed totally out of character for her. And while it’s far from the most offensive joke Glee has made, and not merely because it’s the second time the show has made almost exactly the same joke, didn’t we *just *have an episode presenting a Very Special Lesson about being accepting of transgender people? (It’s also kind of racist to joke about all black people looking alike, but we didn’t have a Very Special Lesson about that recently.)
It also seemed strange to me that we were apparently supposed to seriously think that Rachel was in the wrong for not taking time out from being a full-time student, dating a prostitute, working in a diner, auditioning/rehearsing for a Broadway show, and occasionally performing with Kurt’s shortlived singing group – all in NYC, 600 miles from Lima – to really get to know the kids who had joined her high school’s glee club after she graduated.
This is one of those things that I’m sure would have been a lot funnier for me if I’d been familiar with what was being referenced. All of those songs sounded like they’d be awful, but I’ve never heard any of them before.
The Fat Kid? In the real world he would be known as one of the few characters with near average looks who appears on the show, as opposed to the unrealistically attractive characters that he’s surrounded by. Is anyone else appearing on the show regularly not much better-looking than most people? I’m talking about all the usual sorts of things used to judge people - nice-looking face, good body (not too fat or too thin), not too short or too tall, nice haircut, nice clothes, etc. Why is he the only one even wearing glasses in that scene linked to? Is the program that far from reality even in small things?
“Bizzaro Jamie and Cersei Lannister” 
Glee does have some humorous phrases
Brian
Apparently the Bieste plotline finally gave Bruce Jenner the strength to come out as transgender. Amazing the power that show has.
Spoiler pics of Bieste as transgender:
Why do I keep watching this show?
I can’t stand that they still follow the graduated students. The new ones had such promise, and it would have been good to see them grow up.
I can’t stand Rachel and Kurt.
I keep watching for scenes with the Warblers, who seem to be the only group having fun when they sing!
I keep flashing back to the growing excitement over the show when it premiered, and we were promised a show where people wouldn’t just burst out into song, and there wouldn’t be dream sequences. ::sigh::
You did this to yourself, Glee. Your crappy ending is all your fault.
It’s my Statler and Waldorf show:
Why do we always come here
I guess we’ll never know
It’s like a kind of torture
to have to watch the show!
I’m not a sports fan and have never really “gotten” sports fandom, but I feel like watching Glee has given me some insight into the mindset of sports fans who continue supporting a team that, frankly, sucks. I wish I could say that I only watch Glee to make fun of it, but against all odds I continue to hope that each new episode will at least contain some good moments even if the show as a whole keeps on losing week after week.
Maybe it’s because my expectations were very, very low after last week, but I was pleasantly surprised by the Burt Bacharach episode. I didn’t like two of the three main storylines and several of the musical numbers were so forgettable that I’ve already forgotten them, but the Santana/Brittany storyline was actually pretty good. And I say that as someone who’s never really bought into the Santana/Brittany relationship.
The storyline about Mercedes encouraging Rachel to reboot her Broadway career was have been fine if Rachel had simply flopped in Funny Girl, which seemed to be what the dialogue implied a couple of times. But since we know she was actually an overnight success who then up and quit for no good reason, I don’t even want to see Rachel get another chance on Broadway. She may be talented enough to do the job, but she’s not professional, hardworking, or reliable enough, and there are plenty of other aspiring actresses out there who are. It was nice to finally hear how Mercedes has been doing though, and that her tour and album were apparently reasonably successful.
As for the third storyline, I just plain don’t care about Rachel/Sam.
Always nice seeing Artie dance.
Agree about the failing sports team and no-care about Sam-Rachel. I don’t care much more about Kurt-Blaine.
To continue the sports metaphor, while I’ve certainly been entertained or even moved by different TV shows, the only time I can remember something on television making me feel like WE WON!!! was the first time Kurt and Blaine kissed way back in season two. I was happier than when we got bin Laden. I think I actually pumped my fist in the air. And it wasn’t even just that it happened, but that it happened with almost no controversy, not even a special content warning at the beginning of the episode – and this at a time when Glee was still a very popular show.
But since early in season three the writers have seemed oddly determined to demonstrate again and again that Kurt and Blaine really don’t work as a couple, despite it being clearly telegraphed that they will wind up together long term. The show did treat Finn and Rachel basically the same way, so that’s equality of a sort, but it is hard to care about Kurt and Blaine getting back together when their romance seems at once inevitable and doomed.
This show is still but a shadow of its former self… but a choir of 300 transpeople singing “I know where I’ve been” is a powerful image.
Yeah, I mostly felt last night’s episode was okay but kinda dull, and Glee has often fallen on its face when it set out to teach us a Very Important Lesson, but it’s hard to imagine any other show on television deciding to have a big uplifting moment featuring a choir made up of hundreds of transgender people.
Though I do wonder where 300 transgender people parked so that the Vocal Adrenaline team would not notice hey surprising number of vehicles in the parking lot considering the time of night. They were amazingly patient about standing there in silence in the dark as well, but apparently they had rehearsed plenty without Bieste hearing.
I assume the transgender choir just teleported into McKinley using the same method the characters have utilized for zipping back and forth between Lima and New York since season four.
I was more surprised that Karofsky was so understanding about his live-in boyfriend ditching him to go back to his ex, although perhaps he too was wondering whatever happened to that Jeremiah guy and came to the same conclusion I did. Blaine is a serial killer. Other likely victims include the mysterious Eli C., Sebastian, the Adam Lambert character, and the Shirley MacLaine character.
Let’s see - if 3 in 10,000 people are transgender (i.e., fully transitioned), and the total population within 80 miles of Lima is 1,000,000, then those 300 transgender people are in fact every transgender person within 80 miles of Lima. Wow, that really took some thorough organization.
Karofsky is also uniquely understanding in letting Blaine go to a party alone where his ex and several beds are nearby.
Karofsky was too busy drunk raping his ex-girlfriend over on ABC Family to worry about what Blaine and Kurt were getting up to.
And they can all sing well. Of course, it’s already an established fact of the Glee universe that EVERYONE can sing well (except for Sugar), so that’s not surprising.