Glee

The Rachel/Finn thing just keeps going and making me hate the writers! it's really obvious how this whole programme will work out - which isn't really a problem - but one just really needs to see it work out!



It's really an annoying programme - waiting on it drives me crazy! Sign of how I really love something!



I can't not give this episode 10 even though it's insanely dramatic, it's just got an absolutely brilliant performance at the end.



Head cheerleader - Quinn? Yes it is! She isn't the best singer is she really but I have to give it to her, her performance at the end in that song - made me nearly cry! Her eyes and her face all the way through it was portraying the emotions completely clearly.



One thing I have wrong with this episode is really petty but the costumes of the cheerleaders are completely unflattering!

Quite baffled by reviews berating how unrealistic this show is. Uhm, it's a series where two teenagers can walk down a school corridor, wind machine at the ready, singing to one another - loudly. Get over your usual TV boundaries. This is not a typical TV show. This is a show where on the first rehearsal they nail the song and instinctively know the choreography. Please, just accept that it's a show without certain boundaries.



I had soo much fun with this episode. Jane Lynch is on fire in this episode, almost EVERYTHING she says throughout is laugh-out-loud funny. She's renowned for her improve; I wonder what lines are her own and what lines she twists. Will doesn't hold any punches and tells Sue exactly what may happen to her if she persists – she'll end up alone. This frightens her, so she eases up. I hope they don't turn her into a complete softy. As for the songs this episode, certainly the best amalgamation of genres, and it's not just Rachel who wows us this time round, although she really wowed me here; Quinn gets a solid number and Mercedes' rendition of Hate on me was fantastic! No Air is still stuck in my head, it was a phenomenal cover by Rachel, oh and Finn =P The Avril cover near the end was also a solid number, and rather poignant. This episode reminds us that Quinn is only supposed to be 16/17, so it's hard truly despising her given the situation she's in. Overall, this was a power-house of an episode, from a vocal standpoint and pure farcical comedy. I loved it. I'm an Official Gleek.

Where should I start. First off, this show is UNREALISTIC. You have a nerdy boy blackmailing Rachel for panties to keep quiet about the head cheerleader Star being pregnant, which was unsubstantiated rumours as the nerdy kid had no viable evidence. You have Coach Sue blackmailing the GLEE teacher Will to keep her cheerleaders on staff by changing their grades, you have the same Coach Sue blackmailing the Principal to have her way for her cheerleaders to be able to cheer on an old commercial he did in his home country. Then you have Coach Sue blackmailing the nerdy boy with expulsion since panties were found in his locker. You have two uneducated moron sisters blackmailing an intelligent OB/GYN doctor so one of the two can fool her husband to being pregnant. Then you have Coach Sue telling everyone in GLEE that Star is pregnant.



In real life, Coach Sue would have been suspend/fired even with Tenure for her actions.

The doctor should have been smart enough to call the cops to do a sting operation for blackmail. The principal should have called the cops to do a sting operation on top of the other one. Then Coach Sue tried to blackmail the nerdy boy who had no reason to worry about having panties in his locker due to no law against boys wearing girl panties, this could have been a sexual preference. Star could sue the school for revealing to all her medical condition. When the doctor hid the lower body part of Will's wife is ridiculous as that is his wife! When Will does find out, he could sue the Doctor for false pregnancy and conspiracy to commit fraud, remember, the doctor gets paid for visits and I am sure he would lose his medical license for this. I am neither a doctor or lawyer, but even I see that if I were the doctor, my career/practice is more valuable than helping 2 sisters fool a man into thinking his wife is carrying his child. Let alone when Star would have mother's remorse whether day of birth of 20yrs down the road that she would not come forward for her child. Simple DNA test can confirm that would be her child. Also I take it that Will & his wife are no longer intimate due to he has not seen her naked for 4+ months due to her wearing a fake baby belly suit. With all this blackmail & last week's show having kids passing over the counter medicine around like candy the school would have been national news and the Principal & his administration involved would have been quickly removed from the school for the safety of the kids and the school would have been under investigation for the issues this school has.



This show started off well but since the 2nd episode has gone downhill fast, I can no longer watch this show as the writers try to insult our intelligence. And I though this show was about helping kids gain confidence and perhaps a future career as a singer?

This was a great episode, and my favorite in the first 8. Tere were 3 main situations- Sue & Will fighting, Terri and the fake pregnancy, and Rachel trying to stop Jacob from running the Quinn story.



The slow motion yelling was great at the beginning- so funny, especially when they argued in voiceover. Splitting up the Glee club was not fair to the students. It was also not fair that Sue got to chose hers and leave Will with the rest. At the end, when it showed the rest of the argument, it was nice to have Finn step in and use the cliche Mommy-Daddy analogy.



I absolutely hate Terri, and it's annoying how she manupilates Will and how he listens to her. Her sister Kendra is equally awful. Forcing him to use Quinn's sonogram (likely hers, but it wasn't mentioned) to show Will was bad. I can't stand either of them (plus, Terri won't even help Quinn out on support money, as she told her in Vitamin D).



I admit it, Drizzle is an awful name. Quinn and Finn's conversation should have been heard by everyone else in that class. Anyway, Quinn should not have confronted Rachel, because Rachel was helping her out, even if it was for Finn. Jacob was his super creepy self, but the panty bribe was worse. Sue making him tell her and blurting out that she found out in front of Quinn and the Glee club was just evil.



Major Performances:

Hate on Me by Mercedes and the rest of Sue's "minority" group was a great. Will was right, though, that she was literally singing about hate.



In his response, Rachel, Finn, and the remaining members' singing of No Air was also great. It along with You Keep Me Hanging On were very music video-esque with the shot changes.



Quinn's You Keep Me Hanging On was ok. It was incredibly random, and a little scary.



Keep Holding On at the end was the best song of the episode. The whole club was together and the choreography was nice and expressive. It's nice to see Quinn tear up throughout the song, instead of the perfect happy faces we're used to. The song had the more heart than any other so far.

This was pretty much hilarious. Sue, the gym teacher is probably one of the funniest characters I've seen in ages. Nearly everything she says is laugh out loud funny. I could go on for hours with her quotes.

I loved Sue VS Will in the episode and how Sue chose unpredictable people. I liked all the musical numbers...though sometimes they can drag a little, like the last one...



The pregnancy storyline is funny...for both Quinn and Terri. But I can't help but think that nothing much happened here. No developments...no stories moving forward. We still have the Quinn/Finn/Rachel triangle, there's the fake pregnancy.... I want some development please writers.



My only other fault would be how Emma was absent...I love her. Luckily the humour, songs and characters made it very enjoyable but the storylines need to start picking up the pace.

I get the feeling that Glee is now struggling to move the central story forward. The problem is there is no central story. The show was really delightful with its unique musical-comedy mix till I suppose the 4th installment. The last 3 episodes have been a drag. Since then the purpose of the whole show has come down to Will coaching the club to come up with some musical numbers for some competition, and Sue trying to disband the Glee club. Terri's fake pregnancy and a few cameos by Principal Higgins provide some fleeting moments of comedy. This episode had an overwhelming sadness to it, trying to focus extensively on Quinn's pregnancy, creating an ugly altercation between Sue and Will, and using the race card.



Glee must explore new story lines, perhaps focus more on the high school as a whole as compared to Glee club exclusively.

"Throwdown" is the best episode so far from "Glee," with the "Pilot" coming in a close second. "Throwdown" is definitely the funniest episode the season has seen so far and it is without a doubt in my mind because of the Will/Sue rivalry that's been brewing for the first five episodes. The rivalry between Will and Sue leads to an immense amount of jokes and I hope that the writers of this series keep them coming every week. The only two things that stood out to me this week in a negative way where the disappearance of Jayma Mays' character (which is just a nitpicky thing as she's one of my favorite characters) and the solo by Quinn toward the end of the episode kind of seemed out of place to me.

As good as the show has become the last few episodes, and as great as the cast is, this episode focused almost everything on the acting prowess of Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison. Both had a chance to shine this episode as they tried to out-do each other as co-directors of Glee Club. What results is some great lines and a couple of okay performances by the Glee Club members.



I thought Jane Lynch stole the show here.. I wouldn't mind seeing her nominated for an Emmy. She's insane, has skewed perceptions of everything and at the same time, is HILARIOUS. Morrison as Will did a great job too, keeping up with her the entire time. There wasn't too much focus on the supporting characters once again, but the episode was still entertaining enough. Sue's quotes about how Spanish is a dying language and her voiceover fight at the beginning of the episode was great..



However, in searching on Wikipedia and other websites, I found that the Sectionals episode doesn't air until December, during the 13th episode. It seems strange that the episode for Sectionals would be dragged out so long. I understand how the show needs to pace things, but at times, it seems like it goes a little too slow. And the songs they chose this week weren't anything to write home about, especially after last week's were so good.



This week was still a strong episode. With Nip/Tuck ending this year, I think Ryan Murphy should be happy with what he has to focus on next.

Not a really great episode this week. A little too much on the mean side. There were a few good musical numbers but the stories were some real downers for a show that really doesn't want to dwell on that sort of thing.



***** Spoilers *****



Sue pulls out all the stops to ruin Glee and so Will fights back by failing all but three of the Cheerios on their Spanish final which by the way was probably justified. So none of them can compete. Sue finally looses her cool and the two of them explode at each other in front of the students in the climax of the episode.



Other stories we are suppose to care about include, Quinn and Finn going to the baby doctor and see their baby girl's sonogram. Terri and her sister blackmail the OBGYN to have Will and Terri come in and see their new baby girl, not boy, together which is pretty difficult as she's not having a baby. The Quinn, Finn, and Rachel triangle continues with Quinn confronting Rachel and Rachel trying to protect Quinn's secret about being pregnant all for Finn's sake. In the end the secret comes out in a blog, everyone finds out, and Sue loses it.



Hopefully we'll be back to some really good musical numbers next week reminiscent of last weeks and this episode will be just a memory. Thanks for reading...