Gleeful Tuesdays

Tuesday night is one of the best tv nights because one of my favorite shows is on Tuesdays which is Glee.  Unfortunately, Glee is on hiatus for the next two weeks but since every other show on tv is also a repeat tonight, I’ll stick with a Glee repeat any day!  My favorite part about Glee is the music because they do such a variety of music and for the most part, they all have good voices.  In their last newest episode where they went to the glee club Regional championship, they did original songs which were amazing.  A good portion of my iTunes library is devoted to Glee songs and what I like best about them is that most of them aren’t the exact same as the original and there’s always a twist or a change in tempo in the Glee versions.  For example, tonight’s Glee episode is a religious episode and Kurt (aka Chris Colfer, who is one of the best performers on the show) sings the Beatles “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” but performs it differently than the original and it gives me chills when I watch him sing it.  Besides the singing, the next best thing on Glee is Sue Sylvester (aka Jane Lynch).  Sue has made it her life goal to destroy the Glee club and tries to pit the kids against each other and spends most of her time making fun of the glee teacher, Mr. Schue.  However, despite the awesome music and guaranteed laughs in every episode, Glee’s been getting a lot of negativity from two recent episodes, one about alcohol and the other about sex.

Since Glee focuses on a glee club filled with dramatic artist types, everything on the show is usually amplified with drama.  In the alcohol episode, the glee kids had a party filled with alcohol and then proceeded to drink at school the next day and again before they performed during the alcohol awareness ceremony.  Basically, most of the glee kids were walking around drunk the whole episode and even went as far as drinking at school.  As for the sex education episode, Gwyneth Paltrow starred as the sex-ed teacher and introduced the subject by singing “Do You Wanna Touch Me There” while wearing a tight, leather outfit.  Needless to say, if she had done that performance at a real-life high school, she would have been fired by the next morning as it was extremely inappropriate to do for high school students.  While these episodes were definitely over the top, it is a tv show, not real life.  In my experience, tv shows are always over the top and show the extremes of most situations so I don’t think these episodes were a big deal.  Anyone else have any thoughts about Glee’s over the top alcohol and sex episodes?
http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2011-03-15-glee15_ST_N.htm
Here's USA Today's take on the sex episode.

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