Glee

I loved this episode. One of my very favorite so far. Favorite parts: Sue & Olvie Newton-John's "Physical video - hilarious! Both of Rachel's songs with the boys. I really did not know "Run Joey Run" before seeing this episode, but I thought itwas done well. I also like "Total Eclipse of the Heart." I didn't really understand why she was singing it, but I enjoyed it none the less. Also, I really enjoyed the library scene - pretty funny! I also liked when Emma told off Will, but at the same time it made me a little sad as I am a big Will & Emma fan. One negative thing to say about this episode: They didn't use Molly Shannon nearly enough. She is a comic genius & was terribly underused. Um...that's all I can think of for now :o)

This was a great episode for a couple of characters. The basic plot had an embarrassing video of Sue Sylvester leak on the internet, and the through-line was finding the perpetrator(s). Now the story wasn't particularly suspenseful, and the suspect wasn't that big of a surprise, but this was another great showcase for Jane Lynch, and subsequently, Jayma Mays. Sue's world is sort of turned upside down because of this incident, and she's in unknown territory- getting laughed at. It was fun returning to her journal, where she would retreat from ridicule. But even better were her scenes with her sister, who we learned last year, is autistic. This stuff truly paints the character in a different light, and maybe, with the understanding of what its like to be made fun of, Sylvester might come off a little nicer? Who are we kidding? Nobody wants that! :) Then we wouldn't get awesome insults about Will's chin!



Speaking of Will, Sue informed Emma of his indiscretions behind her back, and encouraged her to to stick up for herself and let him know how she feels. I question that Emma would so quickly believe Sylvester without any proof, but it lead to some really good stuff for her character anyway. I enjoyed the tongue lashing she gave Will in front of the other teachers, and I'm glad she wasn't so quick to accept his apology at the end of the show. Though Sylvester's intentions may have been mean-spirited, she actually did Emma a favor, and she may be a stronger woman for it. Besides, now maybe we can see a Will + Molly Shannon romance? That'd be horrible! And awesome.



As for the kids, another item was circulating through the school: a "Glist"- I'm still a little unclear on what exactly this was (some sort of "hot" list on Glee club members, based on promiscuity? Or lack there of?) but it was a big enough deal that Rachel and the others wanted to improve their bad reputations. The reveal that Quinn was really behind the glist, observed that she wanted to lash out after having everything, from her body to her popularity, taken away from her. I'll go with it- even though she was never in the room, when the people who discovered Sue's video, came up with the idea to go viral.



The music:



"Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. That's right. Vanilla Ice. On one hand, it was only a matter of time before Glee would go there. On the other hand: seriously? Vanilla Ice? In a weird way, this song was perfect for the undeniably 'white' Will Schuester! He tried to convince the kids that this song gets a bad rap (the theme of the episode) but I don't know if he succeeded. Stuff like this is the reason people can't stand this show. But I confess. I gotta kick outta the performance.

Grade: B-



"U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.

Kurt, Mercedes, Artie, and Tina- who I like to refer to as 'Glee Core' with Brittany tried to stir up trouble in the library. Glee Core really needed that badass rep. The bad news: This is not how you're gonna get it. This was worse than Vanilla Ice. And I like this song! The good news: Brittany can dance!

Grade: C



"Physical" by Olivia Newton John.

While Sue was the laughing stock of the world, Olivia Newton John got wind of the video and offered to re-cover her song, inspired by Sylvester. Her cameo was mostly just listing off her accolades like Grease and her awards, as if kids today don't know who she is (which they may not), and they did a music video with a bunch of sweaty meatheads in spandex working out. For the ladies. Not for me.

Grade: C- "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes.

Okay. Rachel's "bad reputation" video project was truly inspired. It is just like her to think of interchanging the male lead with her 3 guys! The cheesy overacting, the amature-ish FX that were added, the Steven Tobolowsky- This was HILARIOUS! The song itself, I really enjoyed too.

Grade: A



"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.

St. James broke up with Rachel over the Run Joey Run debacle, and made a weird reference about ballet class. Which of course, was a set up for this last number, lol. The song was great, but I didn't care for the ballet that accompanied it (Jesse even seemed to be struggling with his lifts)

Grade: A-

This is exactly the same chord that was struck when Murphy & Co. started the show. Nice playful humor strategically placed between some amazing musical numbers.



Just look at the storyline - you've got Sue Sylvester at her scheming best, devising a diabolic plan to make Will the laughing stock of the school. What we saw of Rachel this time around represented her true character - one who is too ambitious and would go to any lengths to get popular. Heck, even Puck got a fair amount of screen time and he sure had some funny lines.



But the best part that made my day was the performance given by the misfits - Kurt, Merc, Artie, asian chick, and Brittany. The library routine was hilarious and Kurt's Perez Hilton principle was so true. I am also seeing an increasing number of some really corny one-liners. Some really cool ones were Artie saying - You had me at sextape! And I am actually in the process of becoming a huge Brittany fan. Seriously some of her lines were hilarious. I was on the floor when Artie says I am getting cold feet and she replies - can you even feel your legs. And the one in the last -'I don't know how to switch on a computer'. Seriously, Glee is back...

This show used to actually have an interesting plot and the songs were properly placed, not just randomly. This episode was by far the worst-- the only thing that kept me was the music. There was absolutely no show, just music number after useless musical number, with about 2 seconds of plot development going on in between each. And then it would go to commercial for five minutes, and ultimately, I just ended up wasting an hour of life. And that's pretty harsh considering I absolutely love and adore this show so much! I could have just gone online and looked up and listened to the songs, and that would have been satisfactory. I truly do hope that this show doesn't continue in this direction, or it will begin to go down hill before it ever needs to. The humor was still pretty good, but the bloody musical numbers were one after another, and they are completely random, which I do not enjoy. In the older episodes, the songs were sung accordingly and for a reason, now they are just spat out at every second they can, and I'm not enjoying it at all. I will forgive this all though, considering the first bunch of episodes had months worth of work put into them, while these episodes had 4 months, at the most. I know most likely that I'm going to get a bunch of bitter responses to this, but whatever. I stand by my opinion that I could have could have completely done without this episode. :( Please, please, fix yourself, Glee, I love you, and I don't want to see you change ever! Stay good, sil vous plait!

Well i said it all up their, this episode was not only painful to watch but it almost makes me want to give up on Glee all together. Sue Sylvester used to be funny, actually she still is but the slow laughing and Molly Shannon was unbelivablely unfunny and annoying. OH, and the music video "Physical", that was funny at first but then it became annoying. When did Glee become MTV? do we need to remake an old music video every episode. I hate Finn, he is annoying, dumb, and annoying again. Olivia Newton JOhn was wasted. I am sick of the wasted guest stars like Olivia and Kristen last episode. The Finn and Kurt storyline was okay, but Finn is just incredible annoying. I loved Glee last year but these episodes are getting annoyingly bad.

I really like this episode once again it was different of the others by its style. Everyone has a "dark side" and have to face the truth. I really like like the part when Emma told will his a slued, that was so true at this point and it shows us that she can be herself sometimes.

The Rachel story was good too because at the end everything she's done went back at her and I hope for once that she learn a lesson. The final performance match perfectly with this story line. But it gave doubts on what were Jessie's intentions when he changed school : did he really like Rachel or is he a fake?



It was funny the part with Sue Sylvester but the role of Olivia Newton-Jones was a little bit upsetting I was excepting more.

The Quinn part made her more human but sometime I have the impression that she's disconnected of the world. we don't know much about her life at this point whereas at the beginning of the season she was one of the main storyline.

This episode and the previous one were both very "meh". Will's performance was pointless, the plot was pointless... Quinn's behavior went against all they have been building for her; Finn is getting boring by the hour... I think Britney was the best character today... I'd really love to see them give her a solo.



Now, where's the whole chemistry we were promised between Lea and Jonathan? Their previous Spring Awakening experience gave me the impression they'd be terrific together and that Lionel song on E14 and the one today just didn't do for me.



The other thing is Sue's numbers... Jane is awesome and all, really cracks me up (the only good laugh I had in the episode), but she was cast, and should stay that way, as an antagonist/mood-reliever character. Obviously her Vogue act got a lot of attention and that kind of move SHOULD be used from time to time. What worries me is the fact it was done 2 times in three episodes.



Finally, all the guest stars are kind of overwhelming... There's so much potential with the "kids" alone and that's being overshadowed by big names such as Idina, Kristin Chenoweth, Neil P. Harris and many more...



Please don't get me wrong, I really like the show and still think it's the second best (sorry, Grey's is just too good), I just think Ryan Murphy and the writers are getting a bit too comfortable with a formula of "Character of the week + Guest of the week + Theme of the week"



Best of luck to us all!