To Glee or Not To Glee

I’ve now watched a full 11 episodes of Glee, and I’m perplexed.  Do I like it?  Do I hate it?  I can’t figure it out!  It’s a bit of both…  I want to love it but all the little things that bug me keep piling up and putting me off. 

It’s like when you meet a new guy and he seems perfect in every way, you are completely enamored.  That is, until that one time you are early for a date and catch him picking his nose… or that one time when he had the heinous breath.  You want to forget it ever happened, you want him to be perfect again, but you just can’t forget.  Now every time you kiss him you breathe through your mouth, and when he tries to get romantic and feed you strawberries, your insides wobble because all you can think of are the traces of booger left on his finger.

That’s how I feel about Glee, and here’s why…

First, for those of you who haven’t heard of Glee yet (seriously?!), I’ll show you a preview so you don’t get lost.

Now, lets get down to the nitty gritty.  What do I not like about this show?

One of my biggest annoyances is the teacher, Mr. Schuester.  Ok, he’s cute-ish and he was probably a good choice for the teacher, but why do they have to make him so… lame? 

Not only is he not bright enough to figure out that his wife, THAT HE LIVES WITH, is not even pregnant but the dude doesn’t even act his age.  It’s like he’s stuck in a dream world where he’s still one of the kids.   Whenever he does one of his routines I want to stand up and scream…

YOU ARE NOT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE!!!!!

Then there’s this guy, Finn. His big storyline is that he’s being accused of having fathered the baby of one of the cheerleaders… BY PREMATURELY EJACULATING IN A HOT TUB! 

I know those little fellas can swim but they aren’t like heat seeking missiles.  The guy is like 17 years old, surely he knows more about the birds and the bees than that.  It’s like he just doesn’t have brain, it’s all air up there.  He wanders around doing what he’s told with this blank look on his face.  It bugs me.

He’s just to stupid and easily manipulated for me to like.

The wife (Mrs. Schuester) also gets all over my last nerve.  I loved this actress back in her days on Boston Public but between her stint on Nip / Tuck and now this, I’m so over her and her crazy psycho bitch characters.  Obviously, she’s made to play this kind of role because she’s GOOD at it, I mean, really good!  That doesn’t mean she doesn’t get under my skin though.

… and this fake baby story, oh good lord, enough already!

I’m hoping that her Justin Timberlake wannabe husband will catch on, divorce her and marry the guidance counselor – SOON!

Then there are the irrelevant characters that they keep trying to make storylines for but really don’t matter at all.  Fake-Stuttering Asian girl, wheelchair boy, weird tall Asian dude, the cheerios and the rest… don’t try to make up stories to make them seem important, they are background, just leave them be.  We don’t care about them.

Now, there’s one I am on the fence about at the moment.  I used to love him but for some reason over the last episode or two, I’m turning my nose up at him…

Yeah, it’s Kurt, and before you hog tie me and burn me at the stake, I said I’m on the fence!!  There is still love there, but I think I’m just having a bit of Kurt overload lately and the recent thing with him and the makeover made me want to punch him and make him squeal. 

I loved his storyline about coming out to his dad, I love his quirks and overall personality, and I love what he brings to the show.  So I probably will fall back on the love side of the fence again, I just hope they don’t keep this bitchy queen business up with him for long.

Plus, him doing Single Ladies and getting  the football team to do it too will always earn him much love. 

On the plus side, there are some things I really like about this show.  I like some of the storylines, I like the singing and dancing and I like that some of the funny bits really make me laugh like mental.

I really like Rachel Berry, for example!  Although I suspect she probably irritates the bejesus out of other people, I think she’s funny as hell.  She’s cute, she can sing like a bandit and she makes me laugh.

I’m hoping that one day when Finn realizes that his baby mama is really a big, fat, Puck fucking liar, he’ll dump her and move on to Rachel.   She won’t let him get away with the blank stare and stupid routine.  Even though she’s completely in love with him, once the novelty wears off she’ll demand he cut the shit and get a clue.

Yes, she’s obnoxious, but at least she isn’t as stupid as the others.

Hootttttttt!!  I was so glad when Puck came along because I was beginning to think that all the men in Glee were either gay or as dumb as a lamp post.  I’m not saying that Puck is an Einstein or anything, but at least you can forgive his stupidity because he looks good.

Plus, even though he acts like a ‘tard at times, I hold out hope for him and he does show some promise.  At least he knows how sex works and managed to figure out that he’s the REAL father of bimbo cheerleader’s baby.  Even with just that he’s miles ahead of the rest of them.

I’d settle for seeing him with Rachel too.

I also really like Emma Pillsbury, the guidance counselor.  She’s totally weird with all her phobias and insecurities but she’s sweet, and she is hopelessly in love with Mr. Schuester. 

She never sings, but I don’t think she’s meant to, it would be cute though!

I’m hoping that once he realizes his wife is a tool who is only pretending to be pregnant and he breaks up with her, that he’ll end up with this one.   She’s too honestly and too bad a liar to be able to pull a scam like his current wife is on him, and that’s saying something considering he seems to be totally gullible.

Now, given all of this… no matter how much some of the characters and plots on the show irritate me, there is one thing I love about it.  One thing that will keep me coming back to watch every episode in fear of missing something.

SUE SYLVESTER, BITCHES!!!!!!!!!

I know the photo is huge, she deserves it.  She is the queen of television.  The producers of Glee better hope to GOD she never leaves the show because a lot of us would probably wander off and stop watching if she did.

 

So, I guess it’s “TO GLEE”, for now.