GLEE's Lack Of Showtunes These Days... — Page 2

I was sort of on the fence about The New Normal in the beginning, but I generally enjoy it when I watch. Yes, sometimes it can be a bit much, and it's really meta of Ryan Murphy to have a character who is essentially himself, but it's got some great things going for it - Justin Bartha is adorable, Nene Leaks is a pistol, Ellen Barkin is a hoot, and I just adore Andrew Rannells and that wee little nugget who plays Shania.

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Updated On: 12/5/12 at 04:57 AM

Has anyone heard Kurt sing Being Alive yet?

Kurt's Being Alive certainly doesn't sound that bad. Better than a lot of other versions I've heard.

I wish Murphy could stay invested in a show long enough to make it worthwhile. He seems to get bored and check out. I have hope for American Horror Story due to its anthology nature. Nip/Tuck was wonderful for its first two seasons and parts of the third before it all went to hell in a handbasket.

Roses, I'm with you on Nip/Tuck. Actually--maybe I lasted a bit longer--it was when that serial rapist (a story that went on way too long) was revealed to be the bisexual guy who we had seen having sex several times, but apparently he had no penis. I sorta half watched for a while longer, but it got way too mean spirited (besides still crazy) by the time they moved to California and I never saw the last season. I have a sick form of loyalty to tv shows I once loved (and zero social life apparently), and usually try to stick with them till the bitter end, but just couldn't. By the end even the actors were openly complaining to mags like Ent Weekly that they had no idea how to play their characters anymore, things were written so inconsistently.

I think Murphy may do better now with shows like Horror Story, oddly, because he has so many projects going at once that he has to depend more on people like his largely silent Glee and AHS co-creator Brad Falchuk (who seems happy to get none of the notoriety Murphy gets). We'll see.

Clumsy, I wish there was more of the Sing! in-joke actually, it kinda reminds me of that pretty funny show Darren Star did Grosse Point, that completely mocked his time creating 90210.
I posted an article I really liked about Ryan Murphy's "world" that I thought was spot on about Nip/Tuck and Glee (good and bad), as well as how much New Normal didn't work, and how Horror Story does despite itself. I don't agree with all the credit she gives Murphy (though I thinkhe does largely come up with good concepts), and most others who read it seemed to disagree completely, LOL, but if you didn't see it, it's worth a read. https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1053820&boardname=off&dt=11&boardid=2

Agreed. The absurdism of the end of the Carver plot- TWO separate people working together as a team to deal with the man's homicidal insecurities over being a eunuch- derailed one of the most truly menacing characters I can think of in TV history.

There!

Ya happy now?