Glee – Or How I Abandoned my Ideals of Feminism and Learned to Love a Good Floor Show
Lillian Beauregarde on 01 3, 2010
My friends are probably tired of hearing this, but I love and hate Glee. I absolutely love the music from that show. Their version of Don’t Stop Believin’ (amazon mp3) is absolutely stunning. I think that the dance numbers are eye-catching and the musicality is wonderful. The guest stars they’ve managed to wrangle? OH MY LORDY. Mr. Schuester’s father is Victor Garber for crying out loud! The pint-sized wonder Kristin Chenoweth played in an episode showing off her talents as the ever inappropriate April Rhodes. Her duet with Mr. Sheuster of Heart’s Alone (amazon mp3) is just a testament to what we’re going to get in the future from this show.
Ugh…
*headdesk*
Seriously. I really really really want to like this show but it’s doing it’s absolute damnedest to make me hate it. All of the women on this show are freakin’ nutso bitches and it’s basically all of these white men having to deal with a bunch of crazy women. There is not one female character that’s in any way stable on that show… that’s not to say that some of them aren’t likeable… but it’s a fight to like them. My favorite characters on the show are Sue (the evil cheer-leading coach – She doesn’t pretend to be anything else) and Kurt (the fantastic gay kid – every glee club’s got to have one) because the two of them make me want to strangle something the least. From Quinn lying to Finn about his getting her pregnant to Will’s wife Terri lying to him about actually being pregnant to Emma constantly pining over Will without any attempts to hide it… this show makes me nuts!! The feminist in me wants to smack the shit out of something but the theater kid in me wants to listen to the beautiful music and watch them dance.
I still cried when the group sang Keep Holding On (amazon mp3) to Quinn when she was completely scared and lost because of her pregnancy. It’s not as if this show offers nothing, obviously. It’s that what it does offer is either so stereotypical or just wrong that I have a hard time with it. I shake my fist at this show like the old man on the Simpsons when Springfield steals back the Lemon Tree.
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You have to take the comedy as black comedy. The guys are messes as well. A grown man can’t figure out something’s up with his wife’s pregnancy? A jock doesn’t know that the hot tub myth is just that? And he let’s her keep manipulating him? I enjoy them as hilarious send ups of type. Something for us all to mock and maybe start up conversations with the young people in our lives about where each character goes wrong. (And I’m listening to the soundtrack on my road trip. Awesomeness!)
Excellent points! It’s one of those things where I can’t stop watching the show even though it makes me crazy. I generally tend to get through it in 3 or 4 show bursts… so maybe the concentrated nature is making things more difficult on my brain.
I could not agree more with this entire post!! I’m still hanging onto “Glee” because of the adorable musical moments and my love for Sue (Jane Lynch is the only one really milking her over-the-top character as a total parody) and Kurt (who’s actually had some touching storylines!). It’s cute and bright-colored and I can’t resist watching it.
But god, whatever obviously male screenwriter created Terri needs to be kicked in the face. And the picture you chose for this entry is a scene that summed up everything I hate about this show — that whole subplot about Rachel and Emma being inexplicably, insanely, girlish-giggling in love with Will because this poor guy is just so perfect and wonderful he *always* has to deal with crazy bitches… ugh. Cringeworthy.
LB – bravo! Love the post! I have to agree that there is plenty about Glee that makes me roll my eyes (blatant disregard for the sacrament of marriage even though Terri is a total nut, etc), but the Glee Clubber in me is totally, irreversibly hooked. (And, Nicole, I might add, also totally infatuated with Will as well, lol). I plan on overlooking Hollywood’s usual faults and just enjoying the show for what it is. After all, the inconsistencies and disappointments are actually pretty accurate of a “normal” high school, are they not?
Too bad we couldn’t have had Will as our GC teacher! Yum!