GLEE - Discuss Tonight's (4/13) Episode

I fought hard to contain my gay-gasms, but the VOGUE music video sent me spilling over the edge.

I feel like I've broken the 12-Step Program. Something this good HAS to be bad for you!

Watching Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff FINALLY performing together again was so surreal and pretty (and the NYC Bway Diva in me got so proud of them!) What a fun/twisted storyline!

And the scenes between Matthew Morrison and Idina Menzel were fierce (anyone else notice her incredible post-pregnancy hips?)

Not to mention the countless one-line zingers that make GLEE half the fun!

Dolphins are just gay sharks
You have enough product in your hair to grease a wok
I have the Slushie-stained training bra to prove it
I sometimes forget my middle name
(hands clump of hair) Use it to fix the hole in your trailer
Most of the show choir directors I make out with are gay.
No, she's dead, this is her son.

I didn't particularly enjoy this episode. It felt slow, and it seemed almost completely different from the Glee I remember loving four months ago.

I don't remember it being as conscious about its own ridiculousness. But tonight there were plenty of nods to its inherent cheesiness: Finn remarking "Oh, that's why the band's here," and the similar moment in the Lionel Ritchie song when all of a sudden the room was filled with violinists and percussionists; the date scene with Finn and the two girls (Britney and Santana, I think?) where he says "I'm sitting right here;" etc. I thought the beauty and comedy came from the fact that these people were so clearly stereotypical and outrageous and the fact that they didn't realize it. But the show seems more self-aware now, and I didn't like it.

I didn't like Groff's performance at all. It may just be the character, but I found him annoying and boring at the same time. And "Gives You Hell" proves that Lea Michele can't sing anything she wants; it was a screamfest. They should've brought it down a notch.

Also, the sound mixing in the final song was terrible. The background vocals were strangled by the leads, and it just sounded messy.

I will say that I liked that the "development" of the Will/Emma relationship. I'm glad that he is realizing what a bad couple they would make and that she is getting over her schoolgirl crush. I liked Idina a lot (and I normally can't stand her); she seemed to understand the comedy a bit better than Groff (ie: that the humor is in the writing, not in performing as if this is theatre of the absurd).

Overall though, I hope that my expectations were just too high. Now that they're in check, hopefully I'll be able to enjoy the rest of the season for what it is: entertaining television, not brilliance personified.

It was pretty awful, but I will still support this show until it goes off the air.

The scenes between Morrison and Menzel were fierce? Really?? Gay-gasms? You are too much...

as a fag hag come on!!! it's a silly show with great one liners! it's not going to change you life or anyone elses but, it WILL make you laugh only if you don't try and be a critic of everything in life. entertainment value on this is very high. it is making fun of itself and i love it! it's like Arrested Development except for mostly gay, talented, high schoolers.

I thought the Vogue bit was the best part! The rest of the show seemed to be starting to follow a formula. However, it has always been a bit predictable in formula. I still enjoy it regardless.

I am not a GLEE hater per se. Perhaps it is more of a guilty pleasure now.
Jane Lynch has the best dialogue, including one liners.
Corey Monteith - don't like him so much. He even looks too old (and is ) to be high school and is the only one who is not over the top talented. He was unknown and lucked out. (auto tune or not, lip synching or not...we know the likes of Lea Michele can sing live and sing well)

I didn't catch the Madonna bit, but loved seeing Idina and Jonathan.

Do cheerleaders wear their uniforms all day at school and then have them on later on too?

I tuned in to see the guest stars and to see if Shue and the other teacher were going to go far.

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I was hoping that over the break, the quality of the writing would improve. NOPE! It's still terrible. Dare I say it though... Idina was the best part? I usually loathe her, but I thought she was absolutely perfect in the role. Groff was terrible, and I just know that I'm going to be rolling my eyes even more for the rest of the season.

Gaygasms?? Please, how pathetic. How old are we; 12?

Updated On: 4/14/10 at 11:12 AM

^^
you got it..along with the blue/purple slurpy throw.

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I am OVER the slurpy joke. WE GET IT! Talk about beating a dead horse. And also, yes Phyllis, everything is EXACTLY like that. The word "convenient" comes to mind a lot during this episode. And Terri was just so random. I just kept being like "WHY?!"

It's absolutely terrific that four very talented Broadway performers (who are each lovely people too) got to show their talent to more in one hour than will ever see them their entire careers onstage, combined.

Why is everyone talking about Vogue? Isn't that next week's show?

Edit: Nevermind. Found the answer.

Updated On: 4/14/10 at 12:29 PM

I just saw the episode on Hulu. I'm glad that Idina got some one liners. Also, the use of Don't Rain On My Parade really set me into the tone of coming back from the end of the first half. Also, I think that the scene between Emma and Terri was tense - especially when she moved the fork over a bit to make Emma scared.