I really enjoy Glee when it is spot on. It's delightful and funny, Sue (Jane Lynch) kills me with her attitude, and I relate to the characters. Lately, though, I haven't felt particularly passionate.
Perhaps it is the lack of songs, which once took up about a third of each episode. We spent the first 15 minutes of this episode songless, again, and when we did finally get some music, it was contrived and really felt like the writers noticed there was no music in the first have, and so picked an appropriate but random song to fix that.
And then you have Will (Matthew Morrison) finally finding out about Terri (Jesslyn Gilsig), which we've been waiting all season to have happen, and that didn't even feel right. He found the pillow, and though we know there have been signs that perhaps she's hiding something all season, he immediately comes to the conclusion she's faking. Even when Terri so reasonably explains the presence of the pillow.
That could have used a song, or at least a flashback to all the things that Will should have noticed. Instead, Will is furious and violent (which we did not know he could be) and he is too angry with Terri. She did think she was pregnant, and yes she lied when she found out she wasn't, but it wasn't until she said she was doing it to keep Will rather than out of a very powerful desire to be a mom that she actually was a truly bad person. Again, we've known for months, and that may have given us time to decide she was a witch, but the way Will just turned on her...I don't know...
Glee really has to pull it socks up when it comes back (next week is the last episode until April). It needs to decide that either A - it will have a cohesive storyline, or B - it will have really good independent episodes every week. And with either choice, bring back the music and the dancing my friends!
Are you still getting the same illogical pleasure you once got from Glee? or do you too feel that it's been heading down hill?
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