When I heard FOX was doing a series about a high school glee club, I thought they had officially run out of ideas. Bad enough they've been torturing my ears three nights a week with American damn Idol, I couldn't possibly take another show regarding singing. When I found out Ryan Murphy, the creator of one of my favorite twisted shows Nip/Tuck and the director of Running With Scissors was the man behind this series, I said to myself, "why not check it out?" Thank god I did, because Glee is one of the funniest, well written, and most exciting comedies I've seen in quite some time.
The show is about High School Spanish teacher Will (Matthew Morrison) Schuster, who is looking for some purpose in his life and career so he decides to take over the glee club which is filled with misfits. Some of the characters may at first come off as a cliche, but he takes those characters - such as the persecuted wannabe Broadway diva Rachel (Indina Menzel look-a-like Lea Michele), football hero Finn (Cory Monteith), who secretly wants to be a singer and sassy big girl Mercedes (who had me geeking when she did a rendition of Aretha's RESPECT) and gives fresh ideas and layers to them. There were many good parts to this show, but the scene I loved the most is when Will takes his students to see a real glee club perform on stage. Their rendition of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" (filled with gymnastics and amazing choreography) was astounding and left mine as well as the clueless misfits (who had no idea what they were really in for) with their mouths wide open.
Sure the show is way out there where the buses don't run, but I love about the show (besides the amazing as always Jane Lynch who plays a cheerleading coach who's hooked on diet powder shakes) is that it's so different from what's on television right now, and that's why I feel EVERYONE needs to check out this show when it returns in the fall. As I have said before, Idol has pretty much ruined young folks singing passionately for me, since every song I have grown to love has been ruined by that shit show for the sake of ratings. Since FOX is giving this show a big push in advertisement, I'm sure they will market this show to come on after Idol. I just hope by the time Idol has finished annoying viewers with all the ridiculous bullshit that goes on the show, folks won't be fatigued enough to not check out Glee which will give you amazing singing, brilliant writing, and characters you will want to root for.
I'm going to do what I can to get you guys to fall in love with this show, so here's two amazing performances from the pilot.
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