And I bet the FOX executives are ecstatic.
Unless you don’t watch TV, or listen to the radio, or hang around teenage girls, you’ve probably heard of Glee. Glee is a TV show (no duh) that revolves around the lives of McKinley High’s Glee Club. A Glee Club is like a show choir, for those of you who don’t know.
It’s not on air at the moment, but the second half of season one should be on TV in about April. It’s on channel ten, for those of you who live in Australia. America is Fox, and I don’t care about anywhere else.
So, we start off with the school’s Spanish teacher, William Schuster (played by Matthew Morrison), deciding to restart the dead Glee Club with the name “New Directions”. He puts up the sign up sheet and immediately the incessantly annoying diva Rachel Berry (played by the insanely talented Lea Michele) puts down her name. Then the other members sign up (it was ages since I saw the episode), and Mr Schuster does something he’s not proud of to get Finn Hudson (played by Cory Monteith), the captain of the football team, to join the club.
And overly clichéd drama ensues. But, the writers know this. They made it overly clichéd on purpose. And that’s what makes it great. It’s like a parody, but it’s not, and it’s wonderful. And it has fantastic music. It’s like a musical, but they sing songs that everyone knows, and they don’t spontaneously burst into song (well, they do sometimes). They sing because it’s what they do in the club, and they’re practising or performing.
It’s an awesome show; I’d suggest that you all watch it. However, it has a few continuity issues and stuff gets brought up and never mentioned again. I think the writers just make stuff up as they go along. But the kickass music makes up for it, as does Kurt. So watch it.
-Keishi
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