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The Glee-Full Gab
On My Way
By Becca
For a competition episode that also featured a suicide attempt, Rachel and Finn’s even more hurried nuptials, and Quinn possibly getting killed, “On My Way” was surprisingly underwhelming. Glee didn’t add new spins to any of the topics it handled, and Regionals had nothing to do with the rest of the show. I think if Glee had remembered to be gleeful in the face of their dramatic events, it would have been a much stronger episode.
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Hold On to Sixteen
By Becca
In the third sectionals episode of Glee, Quinn and Sam both separately came to the same conclusion, although it took Sam about five minutes to find it when Quinn’s been searching all fall. That realization was that it’s okay to be young and teenagers and enjoy life. They don’t have to shoulder all those adult burdens just yet, and they should embrace that while they can. I like their shared realization if only because it was awesome to hear Quinn, in the script of a musical show, plead “Please don’t sing” after Sam rejected her advances.
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Mash-Off
By Becca
There was so much to love about this episode! While last week’s show pulled at my Kurt and Blaine loving heartstrings in such good ways, this week’s episode was full of classic Glee moments: cheesy group numbers, an endless supply of Santana’s insults, poignant character moments wrapped in the guise of stupid teenage behavior, and an emotion-wrenching number ending the episode and presently residing at #2 on the iTunes chart. So Santana’s been outed, Puck’s “Hot for Teacher,” and dodgeball claims an Irish victim and a student body presidential candidate. Let’s play!
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Pot o’ Gold
By Becca
Is it possible to like the character development arcs in an episode while disliking most of dialogue? That’s how I felt about this Glee installment full of fake leprechauns, baby-stealing plotting, and Burt Hummel’s entry into the congressional race against Sue. Most notably, I liked Puck’s continued emotional development toward realizing he wants to be a family man, Finn and Blaine’s rivalry being coupled with Finn’s indecision about his future, and Sue Sylvester having to deal with a legitimate opponent. But let’s start with Rory, the new character introduced this episode and portrayed by one of the Glee Project’s winners, Damian McGinty.
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I Am Unicorn
By Becca
In the second episode of the season, auditions for West Side Story commenced, Brittany took on Kurt’s campaign for senior class president, then promptly took it back for herself, and Quinn and Puck adjusted—or didn’t—to the return of Shelby and their child, Beth. However, there was one travesty that can’t go without noting, one horror that I hope never, never again makes an appearance: Blaine’s outfit in the choir room scene, including the giant pink bowtie from the depths of Hell.
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The Purple Piano Project
By Becca
Glee’s first episode of Season 3 wasn’t perfect, but it did a lot of things right. Let’s get what it did wrong out of the way first—Emma’s still afraid of sex? Blaine wore a bowtie with a polo shirt? Quinn thinks Ryan Seacrest is erotic? Okay, now that those are out of our system, let’s take a deep breath and dig into the good parts, which is about 99% of the episode from my perspective.
The Glee-Full Gab
By Becca, the Gourmez
The third season of Glee starts next Tuesday, and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for our band of misfits. Misfits, of course, is a term that hasn’t ever made sense when applied to them collectively unless we’re referring to the first half of the first episode of Season 1, before Finn joined the group. By Episode 2, we already had three cheerleaders signed on to the New Directions, and misfits was only a thematic concern rather than a conceit that made sense from a storyline perspective. It’s one of those inconsistencies about the show that I’d like to find endearing but is really more befuddling. I suppose as far as Sue’s concerned, they are all misfits—anybody not named Sue Sylvester is one in her eyes.
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Farewell, Sam Evans
by Becca, the Gourmez
The press coverage of whether Chord Overstreet will be back to portray Sam Evans next season on Glee or not has been a whirlwind. Now that the winds have settled, it appears that he is not returning to the show, though I wouldn’t be surprised if a scene or two of explanation for what will be a break-up with Mercedes manages to sneak in somehow. This column isn’t about why Overstreet won’t be back, however, it’s about saying goodbye to him and his character, both of whom I thought added a lot to Season 2.
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The Glee Project
By Becca, the Gourmez
I’m not a big fan of reality shows, though I do make a few exceptions for reality competition shows. Even so, I don’t watch American Idol until it hits the top 10 or so, the same for So You Think You Can Dance, and I haven’t seen the Amazing Race in years. My Glee addiction, however, has forced me to give the Glee Project a chance. It’s five episodes in, and I must admit that this mix of singing competition and complicated, prolonged, agonizing audition for a story arc on Glee has hooked me.
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My Favorite Performances Part 2: #6–10
By Becca, the Gourmez
It’s time for the next set of songs from my Top 15 Glee performances! This installment covers numbers 6 through 10, and every single one of them is from Season 2. At this point in my rankings, I realized just how heavily biased I was in Season 2’s favor, though my choices were pretty evenly divided between both seasons in my original Top 35 picks. However, I had to cull that number down somehow, and as Season 2 is the one that made me a fan of the show, I suppose that result was to be expected! The final count is 11 songs from Season 2 and 4 from Season 1, but what’s interesting is that 3 of those 4 made it into my Top 5 that I’ll share next week.
The Glee-Full Gab – New York
By Becca, the Gourmez
Glee’s jam-packed finale episode showcased one of the show’s main selling points, one that dates all the way back to the premiere episode: glee. No, I don’t mean singing in a glee club, though watching this club enjoy the heck out of expressing themselves through song fits the bill. What I mean is what Will Schuester read on that plaque the day he decided to take over the McKinley High Glee Club: “By its very definition, glee is about opening yourself up to joy.” That’s what I saw in this episode, even while wondering why no one commented on Quinn’s haircut, why Mr. Schue couldn’t perform on Broadway for the summer, why Rachel and Kurt wouldn’t know that Cats had closed when they were young children. Despite all that, this was an episode full of the characters’ passions and joys.
The Glee-Full Gab — Funeral
By Becca, the Gourmez
This episode was a quiet one after the boisterous fun and drama of “Prom Queen.” Too quiet? I don’t think so. There were some important plot developments (Will’s going to Broadway, Terri’s moving to Miami, Finn and Quinn finally broke up) that needed to be handled softly, so putting them all into an episode where the focus was on resetting Sue’s character from a lumbering, bellowing Godzilla into a somewhat reflective woman who needs new focus in her life made sense. Of course, the bitter truths of Jesse St. James in combination with Sue’s insults before her sister’s funeral still left plenty of room for fans of Glee’s one-liners to get some entertainment. My personal favorite exchange comes after the jump.
The Glee-Full Gab – Prom Queen
By Becca, the Gourmez
Glee is on a roll with these last three episodes! “Prom Queen” worked for me on so many different levels, much like songs about loving a baby can somehow be appropriate for asking a girl out to prom. One might think a different song than “Isn’t She Lovely?” would have worked better for winning Brittany over, but if a back-up band of hot men on guitars making percussion instruments out of cheese graters wasn’t enough to convince Brittany to go to prom with Artie, I’m not sure what would have worked out for him. And frankly, I’m glad it didn’t.
That’s the theme of this week’s column—I’m glad it didn’t happen that way. Brittany being won over by Artie’s serenade would have been sweet–and too easy. Instead we got her claiming her time in the sun as a single woman, one who didn’t need a date because she planned to steal everyone else’s . . . and she did! Ladies and Gentlemen, Brittany S. Pierce was in the house and she tore it up.
The Glee-Full Gab
By Becca
Glee’s third season is over. I have three episodes left to cover, including this one, but I won’t be acting like I don’t know what comes next. That’d be silly. Of course, plenty of people would say spending my time writing about Glee is silly enough, but these last three episodes are pretty darn fun to watch, and “Props” is the best episode of the bunch.