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Season 2, Episode 16 (38)
Date of airing: Mar 15, 2011 (FOX)
Watched for review: Feb 16, 2012
Number of review in February/2012: 71/194

A while ago I cancelled this show, since it started to drain the life out of me for various reasons. But I never really hated that show as much as I wanted to, even though I was saying it all the time. Which is why I think it’s time to get back to the show and at least finish the second season, so I can see if the fuzz about the show is still there. In addition, I’ve heard some nice words about the third season so far (not on Twitter I might say), so I’m trying to figure out if I should watch the third season in the summer, to be up to date, when season four starts. Which will hopefully be the last though.

The episode was okay. I knew from 2010 already that the producers wanted to deliver an episode with original songs, and they didn’t even fail here. It would be interesting to know who the songs wrote (because everybody else than Murphy and his team of writers would have been boring), but I liked the effort. And the songs were actually good. Even the tryout songs during the first half, when Santana (Naya Rivera) was singing about Sam’s (Chord Overstreet) mouth, or Mercedes (Amber Riley) was giving her hell to the no to the audiences. Funny songs for sure, but definitely not Regionals worthy, which is why the whole story of original songs seemed like as if it was used to poke fun of it and make sexy joke songs out of it. Judging from the fact that GLEE is mostly a satire, I can excuse that, but the original songs story was barely used for anything but having original songs during the Regionals.

The other stories were totally ridiculous though. It starts with the fact that there was no story with New Directions. Only the Warblers had a story, but only because the writers were finally able to bring Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Blaine (Darren Criss) together. Yep, that really was the only story of the episode, and it wasn’t even one to talk about much. Great, fine, now they’re together, after it was teased all season long that there will be some gay action in the Warblers club. It’s a fine little happy end there, serving a little message for all the gay kids out there, and giving them hope, but sometimes it can be good, when the stories have more to deliver than just morals and messages of the week. It can’t all be about giving hopes to the watching teenager audience, right? Where is the sense of telling a story, of writing development, of giving the characters something to fight for/about? (Yes, I know they fight for recognition, but that they do for one and a half seasons. Time to change it and spice it up)

Also, Sue (Jane Lynch) is already annoying me, and I just had like a 11-month-break from this show. I can’t get a character, when there’s no reason for that torture, or the seemingly endless hate she is giving to the kids. Even here some development would be welcome, just to give Sue more moments than just her hatred as an ex-coach, former lover and sister of a disabled. I can understand why people hate her. I hate her, even when I watched the second season last year.

The relationship storylines… well, there was just Finn (Cory Monteith) and the two-girl pack Rachel (Lea Michele) and Quinn (Dianna Agron). I kinda hate when the episode starts with a full-grown plan of „hate”, so that Quinn can get her boyfriend back, but at the end it seems like the only way possible to get Rachel out in the world, as she always wanted to be. And then Rachel had to play the chicken. Seems interesting, but it’s actually lame, because the depiction of hostility between Rachel and Quinn is completely gone.

And finally, there is a reason why there was almost no story: too many songs. I hope that was a one-time thing. 6.5/10

Dirt does not taste like chocolate

L for Let's get it rockin'

So, the GLEE writers are in the middle of transforming the series into a 7TH HEAVEN musical without a big family and without Will being a pastor. I don’t know what to make of it, but as long as the message of the week isn’t as annoying as most episodes of 7TH HEAVEN were, I can accept it and forget all of those messages after I’ve seen the episode and written the review.

The episode was alright. It was surprisingly not annoying (since I still think that the quality of the upcoming episodes look like the first couple of episodes from this season), but it was not really entertaining. As expected, Holly Holiday (Gwyneth Paltrow) was just thrown in, because she was a likeable character, but I already knew that she wasn’t used well in this episode, like she was used in “The Substitute”, so I hope that the writers are going back to the awesomeness of her character in the upcoming episodes Gwyneth is starring. And as expected, the whole story around Will (Matthew Morrison) trying to bring sexy back to the glee club didn’t really work for me, because it didn’t involve all the characters. The story could have involved all the girls of the club – like putting Lauren (Ashley Fink) more into it, instead of having her dance around Puck (Mark Salling); or even Rachel (Lea Michele), who obviously didn’t have anything to do this episode, except trying to smash down Santana (Naya Rivera) for unknown reasons.

Some scenes, which were supposed to be funny, were awkward. For the first time, I couldn’t laugh about one of Brittany’s (Heather Morris) stupid and hilarious storylines (I actually rolled with my eyes, when she revealed she doesn’t know anything about sex and where babies come from), and I couldn’t laugh when Emma (Jayma Mays) didn’t know the definition of “Afternoon Delight” and a nooner. Yes, I didn’t laugh much about the episode, instead I tried to get warm with the story. Which only worked halfway.

I liked the emotional confrontation between Santana and Brittany. Finally GLEE does something with the long-awaited lesbian outing of Santana, and it was touching to see that Santana was hurt at the end, when Brittany didn’t feel like Santana. It reminded me a bit of the Rachel/Finn confrontation, when he was breaking up with her, and I hope that the writers are getting more serious with Santana in the series – instead of showing her as a sex object in the high school, let her be the emotional young woman, who doesn’t know where she is (though I don’t need Kurt 2.0 with her).

I wanted to like Kurt’s (Chris Colfer) talk with Burt (Mike O’Malley), but somehow it got lost with me, when I didn’t understand why Burt was so “unnatural” to Blaine (Darren Criss). I just know that I had my hands in my face, when Burt answered to Blaine’s “I hope I don’t overstep your boundaries” with “You do” – as if Burt still can’t get around the fact that his son is gay, or that he doesn’t like Blaine, because he saw him in Kurt’s bed in the alcohol episode. And I actually wanted to see more of the talk Kurt and Burt had, but it was cut short, which was a shame.

All in all, the episode, as well as the musical performances, couldn’t wow me. And somehow I missed Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back”. If he would have allowed the producers to take his songs, this one would have definitely been in here. 6/10

Maybe

Why are the dramatic moments of the series always the best?

Another surprising episode, which again pushed me away from thinking that GLEE is becoming the next 7TH HEAVEN. The second season starts to have the moral of the week, and yet the writers seem not to care about the real message and instead write the truth about the topics – something I like here, something I hated in 7TH HEAVEN.

But some of the stories weren’t really my favorites. Nothing against having Blaine (Darren Criss) in the focus of one of the stories, but the whole “I think I might be bi” was so bad and ridiculous, I was rolling with my eyes, when the episode first teased that there is something between him and Rachel (Lea Michele). But then the whole episode was out to have a possible romance between the two, with a kiss, with a date, and with Kurt (Chris Colfer) pretty much being pissed. That was just awkward, and I believe it was out of character – especially Kurt. How can he be so “good” to Rachel, when she is stealing his man? I remember that Kurt somehow had a crush on Finn during the first season, together with Rachel, which is why they never liked each other, until they had a duet (Happy Days are Over). Moreover, it wasn’t really a funny storyline, and it stayed awkward until the end, when Blaine realized that he is 100 percent gay.

In addition, I didn’t like how the writers handled the gay storyline with Kurt and Burt (Mike O’Malley). The stereotypes couldn’t have been bigger than the moon, when Burt told Kurt that he basically wasn’t up for having a guy in Kurt’s bedroom. The discussion, which followed that scene, was awkward too, and another eyesroll moment. Again, I have nothing against the moral of the week, but that was hammered into my brain with pain.

The alcohol story was cool though. Thank you for telling me that it is just fun to drink alcohol, and that you just have to be cautious, when you are drunk. The “Tik Tok” performance was okay (and I take anything with Brittany [Heather Morris] in the lead), though I didn’t need the vomiting part (bit at the end, it was crucial for the story, so I can live with it), and Sue’s (Jane Lynch) involvement in the story was a bit over the top. It was predictable as hell that Will drunk dialed Sue and that she would use it against Will (Matthew Morrison), and it was predictable that nothing would come out of it at the end. After all, the message was played in the whole school, but I didn’t have the feeling that it was crucial for somebody to talk to Will about it, and I don’t believe that it will have consequences in the next episode. But the Ke-dollar sign-ha gag was hilarious. It seems like the writers just created a new joke for the world to tell (when it didn’t exist before).

It was a good episode, surprisingly funny in some parts, but Thor’s hammer of moral could be thrown in the garbage for once. 7.5/10

The class of hangover walks in

The infamous blue-ish vomit is on Rachel now

A surprisingly really good episode. First I was a bit scared about the Justin Bieber themed story, since I’m one of the people who thinks that the hype is completely overrated (though I say I’ve never heard of this music and therefore don’t know if he sucks or not), but I was surprised to see that Ryan Murphy really showed both sides of the medal, when it comes to the teen sensation, named God.

The story was okay. I would have wished for Sam (Chord Overstreet) to become more intelligent, when it comes to his relationship to Quinn (Dianna Agron). For numerous times, he was called stupid, dumb and similar, but every time his story was driving the drama road, he seemed way too intelligent for this life. So I was kinda happy that he made his choice and broke up with her, but I don’t know if he and Santana (Naya Rivera) are going to be a good couple. It felt a bit forced at the beginning, it was funny in the middle, when she was talking about being his mistress, and it felt awkward at the end, when he said to Quinn that they were going out. maybe the next episode could shine some proper light o this relationship, making it more believable. But it was good to have him in the focus of the episode – I wouldn’t mind seeing Chord listed in the main credits for once.

Hilarious was part two of “Puck getting Lauren to love him”. I still wonder that the writers are going full-frontal with this pairing, but I absolutely loved it: how kick-ass Lauren (Ashley Fink) is all the time (but nervous, when she has her first solo), and how closer Puck (Mark Salling) gets to her with every move he is doing. It is a nice message for the audience kids in America, so I hope that the writers are not going too much over the top with the pairing.

I don’t know what to make of Sue (Jane Lynch) though. Somehow the suicidal side of her didn’t fit her character, but then it was sweet to see her smile during the scene with the kids. To say it with SPARTACUS terms, it lifted the heart to see Sue that happy. Of course it was just all a scheme and brought her to be the coach of Aural Intensity (Vocal Adrenaline are out of the picture now?), but it was still a nice story at the end, than during the beginning.

Only Rachel’s (Lea Michele) comeback story was lame. It was good to have her interact with Brittany (Heather Morris), but the story fell flat during the middle, since it wasn’t developing Rachel. And now that she was talking about performing an original song for Regionals, the story even completely vanished at the end. That Finn (Cory Monteith) is on her side… predictable – I see the two coming back together very soon, hopefully sooner than later, sot hat the whole teasing won’t annoy me in the next five or so episodes.

Funny episode, please more of it, and not such a back-and-forth in quality, like the whole first half of this season… 8/10

It's The Justin Bieber Experience live in concert!

And this is a whole other experience for Lauren

Who would have thought that a potential sugar-sweeted Valentine’s episode like this one could be so good, funny, and actually sweet without insulting my taste of sugar? Unfortunately, this episode is the perfect example of how “wrong” this season of GLEE is after twelve episodes. Here and there, we have really good and funny episodes, but on the other side of the spectrum, there are terrible episodes. And I don’t even know how that is actually possible.

When the episode started with Puck (Mark Salling) “falling in love” with Lauren (Ashley Fink), I wondered how it even came to that. It seems that Puck dated the whole female part of New Directions already, and it seems like a story already seen in the series (and not just because Puck/Lauren actually somehow fit together, which lets it more look like the already done Rachel/Puck coupling). But at the end, it really worked, and not just because the writers finally found a way to include Lauren a bit more than just being the “12th member”. She actually has a story now, got some character development, a hilarious kick-ass scene with Santana (Naya Rivera), and all in all, she seems to be an interesting character, extra carved for GLEE. And finally, the writers went a bit over the top with Lauren, getting back to the old GLEE and how I started to love it during the first half of the first season.

The rest of the episode was also well. I loved the little Kurt (Chris Colfer)/Blaine (Darren Criss) romance, and how awkward the two actually were, when it came to their hopes being crashed. Similar to Lauren, the episode brought some more character depth to Blaine (who was rather a dick in his previous episodes), which could even lead to him being a major character in this season (though I know how the writers want to go into the separated storytelling in two different schools, just for one or two characters). I have to say I liked Blaine in this episode more than in his previous episodes combined, which is a good step forward. The only thing is: The Warblers start to annoy me. I understand why they are favorites with the fans and the iTunes users, but having two performances from them in one episode was a bit too much for the variety of the episodes. And it doesn’t need a Warblers performance in every episode – they are kinda exclusive (at least they feel that way), but when the producers use them heavily for the next episodes, they are just as boring as every third performance from Lea Michele.

Oh yeah, the Rachel (Lea Michele)/Finn (Cory Monteith)/Quinn (Dianna Agron)/Sam (Chord Overstreet) quartet – I don’t really know what to make of it, since this is all old. It was only nice tha the writers continue to give Sam screentime. Even he got a scene of character depth (“I’m pretty, but I’m not stupid”), which I liked, but I don’t really like how the writers go back to the Finn/Quinn couple, with Rachel leaving behind, because she is still in love with Finn, and actually looking for a new boyfriend (again) – basically the first season all over again.

Tina’s (Jenna Ushkowitz) story was awkward though. During her Valentine’s performance I was thinking that she was about to break up with Mike (Harry Shum Jr.) (I didn’t really listen to the lyrics), but that she practically had a breakdown… I don’t know. I don’t even know if it was out of character, or an effort from the writers to give Tina some screentime again. At least they gave the Mike/Tina romance screentime again. I wouldn’t mind to see Mike even more often than before. His screentime already increased, so why not making him a regular too? Only one thing: Him dancing around Artie (Kevin McHale) in the wheelchair looked kinda gay. I had to laugh, when I saw this one.

Yes, it was a surprisingly good episode. Finally GLEE went back to its hilarious and sarcastic side, and even some of the songs were good (I’m not a friend of “Firework”, but it was a nice performance). Let’s see how long that streak holds on. 8/10

A love song with a performance #1

A love song with performance #2

It was the post-Super Bowl episode, and count me in, when it came to high expectations. But at the end, I was a bit underwhelmed about the episode, and the fact that it wasn’t a highlight at all. Though I’m starting to like the whole arc involving Karofsky (Max Adler), and how Beiste (Dot Jones) is involved in the show at this time.

It wasn’t really a highlight episode at all. When I’ve heard for the first time that GLEE is doing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, I was expecting something genius, definitely a stellar and rememberable performance. But when I’ve listened to the mash-up for the first time, I couldn’t believe that the producers really mashed it up. With a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song. With “heads Will Roll”. It probably would have been suited as a song for a Halloween episode, but not in a mash-up with “Thriller”. But at least the halftime performance was nice to look at (besides the really good make-up effects).

The story was alright for GLEE. It was a good idea to let the football jocks join New Directions for an episode, and maybe it will have the unexpected effect of some of the jocks joining the glee club for good. It wouldn’t hurt, when the “jocks hate glee club, slushy the members” story would end for real. It is already interesting enough to have Karofsky in the focus of a storyline involving the jocks, so the series doesn’t really need a continuation of the old getting-slushed story (and yes, the scene, where Artie [Kevin McHale] was drowned in slushies was more awkward than funny, or even character developing). That the football jocks would be slushied by the ice hockey team (a nice way to introduce them) was a good scene though, and since the episode introduced some new football jocks for the series (which could turn to recurring characters), it would be nice to have a new rivalry going on in the show, which has nothing to do with the glee club at all.

The episode had its funniest moments, when the girls joined the football team. I was laughing out loud, when Lauren (Ashley Fink) was hungry for some violence against the competing football team, or how Rachel (Lea Michele) was about to “kick some ass”. Moreover, I liked that the writers gave Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) a worthy moment of being important in the show, when she was running for the ball. Not Rachel, but Tina – this alone deserves applause from me to the writers. Only the conclusion to that scene was a bit lame. I was expecting her to just stand up, saying “I’m just kidding you guys” and let the fans (and players) cheer her up, instead of being knocked out for a couple of seconds, asking “Is it over?”. It showed Tina as a weak character, and maybe I’m too much of a fan of her, because I actually want to see her kicking some ass (and not Rachel). The “brains” scene at the end of the game was awkward though. It nicely mirrored the beginning, when Finn (Cory Monteith) fumbled the ball, but it was just too much of a clichéd scene, which brought the team to win the game, instead of losing it (on the other hand, with a loss, the writers would have had no reason to keep Beiste in the show, so it’s all good).

The performances besides “Thriller / Heads Will Roll” were surprisingly boring. The Rachel/Puck (Mark Salling) pairing was nice at first, but the song was boring. “Bills, Bills, Bills” was missing a lot of reasons of why it was in the episode, and I can’t even remember the rest anymore. So, from a musical point of view, the episode isn’t really worth remembering. Well, except the performance of the mash-up, but I still don’t like the mash-up. Maybe the producers should stop to do mash-ups, because they are getting more and more lame.

The rest of the episode is almost not worth mentioning – not even Sue (Jane Lynch) and her efforts of winning the Cheerleader Regionals. The episode could have done so much with that story, but instead it was just a lame way to let Sue lose her position as the coach on the top spot, as well as letting the threesome Quinn (Dianna Agron)/Brittany (Heather Morris)/Santana (Naya Rivera) decide for the glee club, and against the Cheerios. Which is why the episode was underwhelming, not a highlight at all, and sometimes even boring. A typical average episode of GLEE. 6/10

Katy Perry was not involved in this scene

Sam wants to zombify the whole football team

I was underwhelmed. Ryan Murphy delivered a Christmas episode, and I was kinda expecting something. At the end I didn’t get much (almost nothing), and I should have realized that before: themed GLEE episodes, or tribute episodes, are rarely working so far in the show’s history. The Christmas episode shows that again. Not that it was a bad one, it was just boring as hell, predictable, and not interesting enough to be considered a good episode.

Having a Christmas themed episode was nice, but all the stories were kinda awkward. So, Brittany (Heather Morris) still believes in Santa Claus, but the writing just plays this one out in letting Artie (Kevin McHale) walk for a day. The writing transformed Sue (Jane Lynch) into the Grinch for a scene, but it wasn’t hilarious at all. And then the episode wanted to tell me that the Glee club is raising money for homeless kids, but they never went outside their high school. Instead of caroling to the students and teachers, why didn’t they take the step outside the school, and performed on the street, or in front of family houses, like “real” Christmas movies?

Other than that I’m getting annoyed of Sue. Or to be precise: of how the writers let Sue appear in the series. First she is the evil character of the show, becoming the Grinch, stealing Christmas from the Glee kids, but suddenly (during a performance of the kids) she has a change of heart, and likes Christmas? This scene couldn’t have been more ridiculous, and it just seems odd that Ryan Murphy isn’t able to let Sue stay the villain of the show. First the thing with her sister and mother, and now this – there’s too much inconsistency in her character at the moment, and I don’t like that.

Furthermore, I was expecting another heat-up of the Rachel (Lea Michele)/Finn (Cory Monteith) relationship, as if the viewers needed another episode to realize that this relationship has ended. Well, I surely didn’t need it, and to see that in the Christmas episode was basically a waste of time. The 43 minutes could have focused more on Beiste (Dot Jones), or even Kurt (Chris Colfer), who only got one scene here (disadvantage of not being in the story anymore). Beiste probably had the most interesting part of the episode, giving the Glee kids proof that a Christmas miracle can happen, giving Brittany reasons to believe in Santa again, and gifting Artie a moment of walking again, though the scene kinda felt awkward. The series didn’t tell anything about Artie’s condition, but I can’t buy that the piece of technology was able to help him walk. But hey, I didn’t know anything about the technology as well.

The songs were boring. I didn’t like one of them, and I was practically pissed, when I’ve heard the Glee version of “Last Christmas”. Damn, I wanted to not hear any version of this song this year, but Glee attacks my ears with this song. Great. NOT. But to be honest: I never liked Christmas songs that much, so there wasn’t anything the Glee producers could have done to make me like Christmas music.

Not an episode I will remember. 5/10

Grinch Sylvester just stole Christmas

And Brittany worries about her Barbie dolls

Nine episodes into the season, and we’re already “halfway” done with the Regionals storyline. This time Sectionals happened earlier, and this time I strongly believed that the Sectionals episodes are always a highlight in the GLEE universe. Last year’s Sectionals episode was a perfect piece of GLEE, and even though this year’s Sectionals episode is a bit weaker than the last one, it reveals the strong elements of the series. And again I have to say: If the writers can hold onto this quality, the very much forgettable and ugly season start will be forgotten soon.

It was nice to see that the writers kept the importance of New Directions having to win Sectionals in this episode, which kept them to focus all on Sectionals – similar to last year. After all, New Directions is still on a “one-year-contract” and when they don’t place at Regionals, it is all over for everybody. The writers even kept all the drama from last year. And all the drama is somewhat preparing for the second half of the Regionals season (when I remember correctly, this season will pick up on the Nationals story too, so consider Regionals be done in March or so): Kurt (Chris Colfer) is among a “real” Glee club, where he has to fight for his solo, Rachel (Lea Michele) lives through her second breakup, and Santana (Naya Rivera) seems to be the hot spot for everything that’s going on right now – I got lost during the fight between the Glee clubbers in the green room, when Santana was mentioned the first time.

The stories before Sectionals were alright. The Kurt/Rachel meet-and-greet with the Evita performance was sweet, and I liked that Rachel realized she can’t be self-important all the time. I just liked her 180-turn, helping out her competition, and finally the scene during Sectionals, where she signaled Kurt to smile. Though I wonder why Kurt and Rachel were such BFFs in this episode, when they weren’t even respecting each other before. The Artie (Kevin McHale)/Brittany (Heather Morris) couple was alright too, and even though the story didn’t interest me much, and wasn’t even considered to be important for the writers (otherwise they would have written a fight scene between the two), I’m starting to like this relationship. And fortunately the writers didn’t go much into the Will (Matthew Morrison)/Emma (Jayma Mays) storyline. She can’t go to Sectionals, she married in Las Vegas, and that’s it. Moving on.

The Sectionals performance were good. “The Living Years” was boring as hell, but a nice message to all the older show choirs out there, I liked “Hey, Soul Sister” (it was a cappella, so hell yeah!), “Time of My Life” was kinda awkward (and of course they start with coming from behind the audience, like last year both Sectionals and Regionals), though it was cool to see the dream couple Quinn (Dianna Agron)/Sam (Chord Overstreet) opening the performance, but “Valerie” was the highlight of the episode. Damn, the producers gave Santana the lead, and it rocked, especially with the dance moves. Encore, please. At the end, I was surprised to find “Dog Days Are Over” covered, and I was even more surprised that Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) sang it in a duet with Mercedes (Amber Riley). More Tina songs, please!

Yes, it was a good episode, despite some awkward scenes. I wished for the whole season to have Sectionals episodes.  One more question though: Is Lauren (Ashley Fink) in the Glee club for good now? That could mean trouble, because Lauren is an awkward-enough character to bring some hilarious moments into the club. 8/10

Introducing: Santana is "Valerie"

Drama queen Rachel lost the drama battle

Sometimes GLEE is awful, sometimes GLEE is almost genius. The second season so far was a mix of both, but it seems like the writers finally found their mojo again. This episode was stellar in every way: nice story, nice message, nice performances, nice awkwardness, and a surprisingly nice cliffhanger. Now I’m wondering why I was about to cancel this show for me after the somewhat woeful “Grilled Cheesus”… If the next episode would just hold stead onto the quality of this episode…

Seriously, almost everything of it was sweet and cute. The wedding of Burt (Mike O’Malley) and Carole (Romy Rosemont) couldn’t have been better written in an emotional way (I was tearing away one tear while the two hold their speeches during the wedding ceremony), and it gave the writers a bunch of opportunities to give the characters really good moments. And fortunately all o it wasn’t even over the top. When Kurt (Chris Colfer) declared himself the wedding planner, planning to give his father a “glee wedding”, I was thinking at first that the whole story would go overboard, but that wasn’t the case. Instead it was a really nice wedding, without awkward moments, without a character “destroying” the happy day, and without the happy day even going into an unhappy state. The whole wedding and the party afterwards could be described as one of the most happy moments in GLEE history – which made this episode a win in my opinion. Finn’s (Cory Monteith) speech during the party was another scene, why I was tearing up a bit (yes, I was that girly while watching the episode). The writers showed here that they still have some esprit in them.

Furthermore I loved how the episode dealt with the bullying, especially since it is part of the news these past couple of weeks. Surprisingly the story took a more darker tone, and like Kurt I found myself terrified of Dave’s (Max Adler) behavior too. Though the story was only good for the cliffhanger at the end, I couldn’t have wanted more from it. The bullying gave Kurt stellar character moments during the first minutes of the episode, and in Sue’s office (as well as Sue [Jane Lynch] having some serious moments and actually caring about Kurt for these moments), and I had the feeling that the writers took the series and its storyline more serious this time – which kinda worked here, when you exclude the wedding of Sue Sylvester and Sue Sylvester, married by Sue Sylvester and walked down the aisle by Sue Sylvester (okay, that was actually funny, together with the sports dress she was wearing). Her story was really awkward in here, and I couldn’t get much of it, except a few laughing moments and a lot of eyesroll-moments. In addition I didn’t love her mother Doris (Carol Burnett), and the Nazi hunter gags were mostly lame and already not funny when Doris was mentioning her “hunting” for the second time. The only good thing about the Sue/Doris story was that the writers gave Sue a bit of a background storyline.

The musical numbers were nice, the highlight was the “wedding march” though, copying (or paying homage) on a current viral hype of having a more dancified wedding march, with the best men and maid of honors dancing their way in (looketh here, if you haven’t seen the beginning of the hype yet) – another example of why this episode might be the best of GLEE so far.

And the cliffhanger? Well, it doesn’t hurt to bring a bit of tension into the series, especially so short before Sectionals. And we didn’t have a Glee member stepping out of the Glee club for a while now, so this is kinda a “welcomed change”. The only irritating thing was Rachel (Lea Michele) commenting that Kurt is now competing against New Directions – it would have looked better for this scene to be free of any jokes.

Otherwise a strong episode. I hope the quality will hold. 9/10

Everybody be happy now, this is a good moment!

From now on: no Glee wedding without a performance

One ridiculous scene (after another): Artie is still in the team (WTF?!?)

Once upon a time there was a show called 7th Heaven. It aired on WB, before it went to The CW to slowly die. The first couple of seasons of it might have been good, but after the storyline, which kept Jessica Biel out of the show for most of the times, the series went downhill in its storylines, went more annoying, and finally went more vomitable. I hated the series during its last seasons, when I even came to watching an episode of it. During the same time, there was a similar-themed show on CBS, called Touched By An Angel. That show I liked, as long as it was on. Now I am trying to catch all the episodes to watch it again, but it seems like a very long-living show, considering the story of the series, which would only be good for three episodes nowadays. Now there is Glee, and the writers obviously wanted to copy those two shows. Or if they have never seen them, they probably just wanted to unpack the mallet again, to hammer the message of the episode into the audiences’ brains. I didn’t know what to think of this episode. It could be one of the worst (again, after the horrid Britney episode), it could be one of the better ones (since it is actually telling a story). Fact: The Glee characters look like the Simpsons characters in real-life – they change so much during the episodes, it isn’t even countable anymore.

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