UnGLEEful

I agree. I actually really liked the whole story with Kurt and Mercedes, but I was completely bored and uninterested in Will's Accafellas thing. Hopefully, next week's episode will be better, considering it centers around Sue's news segment and her "Smell your armpits" bit tonight made my friends and I die with laughter.

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This show just tries too damn hard it's really kind of cloying.

wow i disagree with most of the above posters - i thought tonight's episode was fantastic.

Oh, cut it a break. The show is just breaking ground and getting its' wings.

It's camp. It's written to be corny. It's written to play into the hilarity. It almost laughs at itself...just not in the XANADU way...

I enjoy it. And I think this episode was necessary to advance the story for whatever they have planned for us next. I doubt that the adult a cappella group is permanent for the series.

Do I think GLEE is perfect...not by any means!! But I acknowledge and forgive its flaws because I enjoy it so much. I feel like the series is catered to me. So I anticipate next week's episode with little patience, just as I did last week and all sumer since the pilot.

End of tangent.

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I feel like Glee falls into an almost uncanny valley of television. It's CLOSE to being real life... but it's not. And it's off-putting for some people.

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I don't even like this show that much (ok, I only saw the pilot and this one... in progress), but I legitimately laughed at more of this than in the pilot.

I watch VERY little TV, though, so maybe I'm easily amused.

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Updated On: 9/17/09 at 12:36 AM

a. Are we really going to have a new thread for each episode of this show? I know it's technically musical-related, but can't we just have one megathread and contain discussion there?

b. I really, really like the show, but this episode fell flat for me. The pacing was incredibly different from the first two episodes, and the Acafella subplot just didn't have any spark, even with the Groban cameo. I think the episode suffered from not having a single performance by the actual Glee club. I'm excited for next week, though, as the storylines seem much more interesting.

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"I thought it was sweet when the GB came out to SBG"

please do without the acronyms...no one knows what the hell you're talking about

Crushgroove, Phyllis doesn't need to spell it out, it's pretty clear.
I enjoy the show, it definitely exists in its own reality, and I think they managed to pull off Mercede's musical number in a Chicago-esque sort of way that I liked. Sometimes it gets too close to POPULAR (which I thought had a serious problem in finding the right tone), and sometimes it's too high school-ish (sorry but why is they gay kid in the closet? I thought we were supposed to assume he was out), but it entertains me.
Phyllis, I have a weird relationship to the Jane Lynch character. I like Jane Lynch so much, but sometimes her character is too much for me, especially in this episode. I actually enjoyed her more in PARTY DOWN, the Starz show she left to do this.
The wife needs to go, they need to change her, they need to do something about her. She's easily their worst character.

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I noticed the wife started to loosen up at the end of the episode and enjoyed her husband's singing...so I think they are trying to make her less of a caricature. I mean the woman is faking a pregnancy to try and save her marriage. I don't think she's as horrible as we're making her out to be. And I love how they are fleshing out the rest of the glee club members. They were focusing far too much on Rachel and Finn...

While I laughed at this episode, it came across as a little too 7th Heaven or Little House On The Prairie for me. By that, I mean that there was an obvious, hit-you-in-the-face-with-a-brick theme, that most, if not all the major characters had to deal with. Last night on Glee it was confidence. If they continue doing shows like that, they'll lose me.

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I loved the episode, but half way through my daughter decided she just doesn't like the show. She kept saying, "I miss Pushing Daisies".