newsflash: i watch tv! and occasionally i submit to massive hype. so yes i watched glee. it's peachy keen. see this spanish teacher is craving a glee club coaching experience. it's who he is. and by the way who he also is a member of the hairspray original broadway cast which i saw perform the show pre-broadway. matthew morrison, y'all. his eyes are as big as america's next top model runner-up allison harvard. okay not that big. he's not a praying mantis.
the kids do not look like high schoolers. except for the queeny guy who barely got any lines. he politely requested the football team bullies let him take off his new marc jacobs jacket before they dumpster him. one of the bullies holds his jacket for him, protecting it. later in what somehow was not homoerotic, that bully is seen singing in the locker room shower while the spanish teacher approaches. nothing establishes heterosexuality more as when a scene like that can be played with no skeeziness. acting!
mr. spanish has no choice but to blackmail the bully into being in glee club, which miraculously is what the guy secretly always wanted. a jock and a singer. not since ricky martin has...i mean not since joan jett has anyone been a jock and a singer. my favorite in the glee club is the very talented lead girl. i have no idea what her name was but she "won her first dance competition at 3 months" and when the bully says he's sick of being the bully, the guy who "throws eggs" she says "that was you?" it was him.
yet she's the one who convinces him to stay in glee club after the spanish teacher quits. seems his non-ideal wife is pregnant, which by the way i don't trust is true. he ends up being shown that he needs to stay by a germphobic fellow teacher. anycrap, in the meantime, the glee clubbers have practiced on their own. this is what seems new about the show. all the kids have some wannabe star self-possession that has normally been reserved for literal performing art school environments, by which i mean of course fame. this is not fame. it's a town, as the football player says, where everyone is a loser, so he's prepared to admit he's one to. he's going to play football still (though they tease him for joining "homo explosion") and sing in glee club because both teams need him to win.
though on fox, the jock managed to get in the line "my father died in the iraq war, the one where they were fighting osama bin laden for the first time." he's a jock and a singer. not so good at recent history. two out of three as they say.
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