You know Will is going to stay. You know he's going to put his life on the line to stay. And you know that these kids and their teacher are going to push one another to their furthest limits. In the very next episode, though, the series completely reverses itself. Will's wife isn't pregnant. She's faking a pregnancy to keep her husband interested, and she'll fake that pregnancy for most of those first 13 episodes.
That fake pregnancy was an early example of some of the show's faults, like its propensity to stack up campy, melodramatic storytelling against honest human emotion and its occasionally awful attitudes toward its female characters.
But this moment signaled that Glee was always going to fall apart in a more concrete way, as well. It indicated this was going to be a show where the characters never actually had to make hard choices or do difficult things. Will wouldn't have to choose between his dreams and his child, because he wasn't actually going to have a child. It immediately diminished the dramatic stakes, and it was indicative of many other choices the show would make in this regard through the years.
TV shows can't succeed without stakes — dramatic, for the plot, and emotional, for the characters. Yes, having Will choose his own happiness over his child's financial wellbeing might have made him harder to "like" on a superficial level, but giving him exactly what he wants without him having to work for it eventually made him insufferable.
By its end, Glee did something like that with nearly every character. Rachel Lea Michele didn't get into the performing arts school of her dreams, until she did.
Quinn Dianna Agron gave up her baby for adoption, then became a part of the baby's life. And so on. Sacrifice was only illusory at best. Although Rise was decent in its plot and carried through with its musical ensembles, Glee still reigns supreme and most likely will forever.
Glee left no genre untouched with over performances on the show. First, with its underlying message of resistance and not giving up on your dreams, the song propelled the glee club to continue singing amidst backlash from the school and principal. The song was the first performance in the show, with Rachel Berry Lea Michele and Hudson collaborating their vocal skills.
Berry had a dream of landing a role on Broadway and a career in New York, and she performed the song in front of judges during season four. Later on in season five, the song was sung again with the remaining members of the glee club.
The wide range of music they cover has fueled my inner theatre nerd -- and, the creepy guy who accompanies the club has inspired me to be a better pop culture pianist. Now, don't get me wrong, I've heard all the " Glee is a terrible show" retorts from some of my friends. I actually think that these statements are what makes Glee such a great show for teenagers to watch. Here are a few reasons why I love Glee and why I think you could love it, too -- if you don't already.
Glee is so clearly not realistic, not true and not possible. It's literally perfect. Teenagers are simply too easily swayed. Our emotions and hormones are crazy, and we're clearly a few hundred thousand steps away from being able to figure out who we really are. I believe that television shows that portray teenagers as a realistic and b well-put-together should be cancelled. It's not fair to watch Gossip Girl and hear Blair, Nate, Dan and Serena casually remark that each of them got into some of the most elite schools in the nation -- such as Brown, Columbia, Yale and Dartmouth -- without really even trying.
It's not fair to watch Pretty Little Liars and see a teenage girl attracting a twenty-something teacher.
These kinds of things just simply don't happen to everyone. Thank goodness teacher-student affairs don't happen to everyone. Glee approaches reality in a very different way -- Glee ignores it. The cheerleaders -- the Cheerios -- go to competitions Who shoots a cheerleader out of a canon? Most of her quips were insensitive and the way she treated the other characters was borderline harassment and abusive. Glee undoubtedly has a knack for taking a song and making it a powerhouse anthem.
With good always comes the bad. Some of these songs were songs audiences could have gone without hearing and it would have been perfectly fine. Without a doubt, Glee has to be one of the best-written musical-dramedy shows of its time. Its humor is top-notch, the drama serves to add to the juicy conflict throughout the show, and its style gives it a flair that no other shows can match.
The cast members of Glee have faced hard times. During and after Glee , it seemed like each cast member of the show appeared in the news in some way or another, and not in a good way. Since Glee ended, there have been two heartbreaking deaths.
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