Glee Appreciation Thread — Page 13

As I have mentioned before, I actually did enjoy Glee during seasons 1-3. Did I know it was far from reality? Of course. But, it was a fun show. Season 4 I saw a handful of episodes, and I don't even know why I bothered. It became boring and didn't have enough of my favorite characters. Why would I watch a show where I can't stand any of the characters?

And I could probably list a whole lot of shows that are more straightforward and witty than Glee. There are actually a lot of episodes of Glee where I could not figure out the message. Like the one with all the drinking alcohol. Were they trying to glamourize teen drinking? Were they saying it was okay for teens to drink as long as they have a safe ride home? Funny, because the drinking age in America is 21.

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"Yankee, of course I'm aware, and like I said I love many of their songs I just happen to like Michael better. Plus I don't really appreciate what they did to Broadway and the American music of the time."

Let me get this correct. The show you love ("Glee") is dedicating two complete shows to Beatle music and you don't appreciate what the Beatles did to Broadway and American music at the time - wow !!So I guess those beautiful ballads the Beatles wrote like "Yesterday", "I Will", "Something" and "And I Love Her" etc ruined Broadway and American music - lol.

As for prefering MJ, that is fine and you are entitled to your opinion but think most people would disagree.

JC pretty much said exactly what I felt. He was only co-creator at Popular (granted, officially I believe he's been a co-creator at all his shows--Glee was reportedly meant to be a very dark series when Ian Brennan sold his pilot script and Fox felt only Murphy and Falchuk's new approach made it work--interestingly Brennan is still at the show as a writer and his episodes often are at least somewhat stronger) but you saw every single issue his shows have suffered even back then in hindsight, as much as I largely loved Popular. Nip/Tuck was a show I found hard not to watch, but after the second season it became increasingly awful and offensive, even when Murphy seemed tothink he was telling important stories. The actors themselves actually spoke to Ent Weekly during its last years about how impossible working on the show had become because there was no way to understand the motivation for their characters, or to make sense of how quickly they change moment to moment.

I do think this style actually kinda works at Horror Story. That show has other benefits--right now its day to day showrunner (starting last year) is Tim Minear who has a pretty strong history in TV, being headwriter for the better seasons of Angel and the daily showrunner at Firefly. And also Murphy tends to do pretty good first seasons--or in the case of Glee first half seasons, so AHS' format works for him--not to mention it's meant to be a style over substance, gonzo horror show. I was hoping Glee would improve once Murphy (and the ever silent Falchuk who seems to get no credit--good or bad--for either it or his other show with Murphy, AHS) became so busy with all their other projects, but...

i loved the first episode this week...and i really liked the songs being intergrated into the show so well and sung so well also...:)...this board has been so mean to LEA MICHELE in the past seasons, and i am sure that some were rejoicing that she didn't get FUNNY GIRL...but...that isn't really settled yet and i hope she gets the understudy for FANNY...what a great story arch that would entail IMHO...and one more thing...this show is filmed and edited amazingly..technically this is as good as tv gets

"and one more thing...this show is filmed and edited amazingly..technically this is as good as tv gets"

Have you ever seen another television show? ANY television show? This is hardly as good as TV gets.

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How could you forget something you never had?

Yankee, Jazz, Nate, Lizashead is just a troll who only exists to scold and insult others with different opinions. Shes thinks she is the Hall Monitor here. Please dont mind or feed her, just ignore, like a mosquito, she will go away once she has her bite of you.

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Updated On: 9/30/13 at 01:51 PM

The Beatles and the British Invasion in general certainly did change the pop music landscape--but it was already changing and people were already starting to talk about Broadway music no longer being as popular with the mainstream before Beatlemania happened. (And part of this was Broadway's own doing--as scores got more and more sophisticated and integrated even more into the shows they became harder to extract, no matter what the style.)

Um you're a 65 year old (man?) that is stanning for Glee. First this makes me very uncomfortable and second of all you're still wrong no matter how old you are.

You're going to sit there and say that this show looks better than Pushing Daisies, Twin Peaks, Hannibal, Six Feet Under, Sherlock, Broadchurch, Torchwood or Mad Men? Gimme a break.

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Finally saw the premiere. Things that amused me:

1. We're supposed to believe they cast Nicky Arnstein first and then began to look for a Fanny Brice who had "chemistry" with HIM?

2. I'm sure she got 30 seconds before they started filming, but Lea Michelle was really dreadful in her scene reading. I can't believe they gave her a second thought, much less thought she had "star quality".

3. Why are the gay characters always dressed as circus clowns? I think their sexual orientation has been established by now.

I guess it's a matter of taste, as much as I love Julie Andrews and Angela Lansbury, to me a proper diva should be a bitch.

I hear only lovely things about Miss Andrews, but I hope it will comfort you to know that Lansbury has a spine of steel when it comes to the projects to which she commits. What she doesn't do is go around being generally unpleasant to people until she gets her way; instead--in my experience--she finds out who needs to give the necessary approval and approaches that person directly (or when he was still alive, sent her husband to do it).

And her demands always had to do with the show, not her personal comfort. She tended to the latter herself. (And IMO she was always right, even when it was my job to say "no".)

GavestonPS - Very good knowing the Beatles covered "Till There Was You". If my memory is correct, they also sang it on one of their Ed Sullivan TV appearances.

Updated On: 10/4/13 at 09:56 PM

Not to double post, but the set list for the upcoming episode [The Quarterback] has been released:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Setlist-Revealed-for-GLEEs-Monteith-Tribute-Episode-20131003

And the promo for next week is here:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-McKinley-High-Says-Farewell-to-Finn-in-GLEE-Tribute-Episode-Promo-20131003

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