Variety PANS 2 new eps of GLEE... — Page 3

I hate hate hate that this show uses the same jokes more than once.

I *get* the point that this stuff happens every day -

1) teacher is driving an old clunker car
2) Kurt is thrown in the trash can
3) slushie thrown in Rachel's face

All three of those happened in the piliot AND the second episode. Um. Not a good move. It wasn't funny at all the second time around. It got old.

ALSO what does the girl in the glee club with the purple (blue?) hair do? She doesn't seem to fit in at all. I doubt she'll have any solo.

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Her name's Amber Riley if anyone's interested.

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Sorry-but I think this show is Hilarious-excuse me but the gag reflex line was laugh out loud! I think we need a show like this-something fun-and doesn't take it self so serious...or in acting terms..."literal". Why does everything have to be literal? This is pure entertainment-and the singing is off the hook. It reminds me of the campy fun show I grew up with "Rags to Riches"-we haven't seen a show like that until Glee came along.

"It reminds me of the campy fun show I grew up with "Rags to Riches"-we haven't seen a show like that until Glee came along."

I LOVED Rags to Riches... when I was 7. It really doesn't hold up to modern viewing--absolutely awful writing, and campy for the wrong reasons. This show's more like the early 90s Hull High! ok I kid, that was awful too...

I must confess, I'm not a Ryan Murphy fan and thought the pilot was extremely uneven. I think what's turning people off is how over-the-top the show's satire is - it's so bubbly/cartoony that it feels familiar and obvious, not cutting.

That said, I'm a huge fan despite GLEE's broader strokes. The second episode was a considerable improvement to me and felt more confident and lived in than the pilot. Secondly, Lea Michele is a knockout. I wasn't impressed with her acting in SPRING AWAKENING but love her voice; she seems to connect to her material more fully when singing than acting. In the pilot her character struck me as little more than a Tracy Flick clone, but Michele deepened her immensely with "Take a Bow" at the end of the second episode. At the screening I attended, you could palpably feel the audience giving themselves over to her performance. I'm sure the success of GLEE is especially sweet to her given that she was originally told that her looks were "too ethnic" for television.