Glee, Acafellas

Well, that was disappointing. After a foray into a solid and possible story line in episode 2, Glee has found its way back to being confusing and a little irritating.

The theme of the episode is confidence - if you have it, then you will go places and without it you will crash and burn. Not a terrible message really, but the plot made no sense.

Rachel asks Will if they can't hire a proper choreographer because his moves aren't fantastic. Hurt by this, and having discovered the talent of some fellow teachers, Will abandons Glee to form Acafellas. Now, my first question is what happened to Rachel being responsible for the choreography as was established in the pilot. Also, where does Will get off abandoning Glee club again so soon. Sure, the evil Cheerios are plotting their destruction, but you'd think he wouldn't let that affect him so much when last week he had supposedly learned to listen to the group.

It was nice to see the teachers get to shine, and bring Finn's football buddy in as well, but the reasons for it were ridiculous.

By the end of the episode, the horribly evil choreographer hired gets fired as the group realizes they will win because they are different, and they get Will to come back...which was just a little silly. And did they get back the $8000 they fundraised from him?

Worse still was Mercedes developing a crush on Kurt, who is so obviously fruitier than a Christmas cake. They want to convince me that he gets thrown in the trash every day, but no one makes fun of him for being gay? And he's so ashamed that there's no way the whole school is just okay with that - there's got to be some asshole who thinks it's wrong or gross and would mock him for it. And Mercedes really needs to check her gaydar, cause while the rest of Glee does ping, Kurt's louder than a fire alarm.

The best part of the episode was Terri's attempts to get pregnant, since she isn't actually already in that state and Will's scenes with her father (portrayed by Victor Garber*). Victor Garber playing a man with almost no confidence, and with such genuine timidity and wistfulness. Yes, that was beautiful.

We'll have to see which side of the seesaw Glee hits next week.