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Glee - this week's episode review
May. 17th, 2011 10:24 pmGlee has got to be the most unevenly written show I've seen in a long time. One week it's horrible, the next it's brilliant, one week it makes me cringe, the next it makes me cry. What the heck? I'm guessing there's a few writers that need to be booted?
This week had a moving production number and wrapped up several annoying subplots that were not working. (Wait was last week the Prom episode? If so, it wasn't that bad. It had a few good moments - the one's that did not focus on Finn/Quinn/Rachel and Jesse. Also the Sue/Artie scene about Artie spiking the punch was actually sort of funny. The Rumor's episode was the stinker.)
Sue Sylvestrie - when she's not being played for pure satire, is actually an interesting, amusing, and moving character. Not to mention relatable. Her relationship with her sister Jean, portrayed by an actress with Down's Syndrom, is realistic and touching. Glee is somewhat uneven in how it portrays people - the in-crowd or pretty people seem to pure satire - Quinn, Rachel, Jesse, Finn - almost too over the top in their romantic love triangles. I think the problem may be the desire to do biting social satire at the same time as well dramedy. Satire is tough to pull off. The least satirical episodes are actually the better ones. Here the satire was reserved for the musical number competition in the center of the show - and focused on the pointlessness of talent competitions in a high school setting. The focus of it - the too self-assured for his own good, Jesse. Although to be honest? I keep hoping they'll replace Finn with Jess, the actor playing Jesse not only has better chemistry with Rachel, but he's a better singer and dancer, plus, well hot. While the actor playing Finn is fairly wooden, and well Jesse's comment regarding his abilities at the beginning of the episode are sort of difficult to disagree with - everyone in Glee sings better than Finn does, and the only one that doesn't - can dance. They won't.
That said? Finn was actually good in this episode for a change. But the star? Hands down was Sue Sylvestrie and the remarkable Jane Lynch.
( spoilers )
As an aside - rewatched Silence in the Library and Forests of the Dead this week - the 2008 Doctor Who episodes. Still blow me away. Although the bits inside the data bank of the library - bug me a little, they are so mundane, and remind me a bit too much of the surbuban hell of the Angel episode Underneath - making me wonder if Whedon's hell is Moffat's heaven? Interesting. May be a cultural thing. US suburbs are tad different than British ones. Bigger country, more vacant space.
(If you don't get what I meant by that - go rent the Cohen Brothers flick A Serious Man.)
This week had a moving production number and wrapped up several annoying subplots that were not working. (Wait was last week the Prom episode? If so, it wasn't that bad. It had a few good moments - the one's that did not focus on Finn/Quinn/Rachel and Jesse. Also the Sue/Artie scene about Artie spiking the punch was actually sort of funny. The Rumor's episode was the stinker.)
Sue Sylvestrie - when she's not being played for pure satire, is actually an interesting, amusing, and moving character. Not to mention relatable. Her relationship with her sister Jean, portrayed by an actress with Down's Syndrom, is realistic and touching. Glee is somewhat uneven in how it portrays people - the in-crowd or pretty people seem to pure satire - Quinn, Rachel, Jesse, Finn - almost too over the top in their romantic love triangles. I think the problem may be the desire to do biting social satire at the same time as well dramedy. Satire is tough to pull off. The least satirical episodes are actually the better ones. Here the satire was reserved for the musical number competition in the center of the show - and focused on the pointlessness of talent competitions in a high school setting. The focus of it - the too self-assured for his own good, Jesse. Although to be honest? I keep hoping they'll replace Finn with Jess, the actor playing Jesse not only has better chemistry with Rachel, but he's a better singer and dancer, plus, well hot. While the actor playing Finn is fairly wooden, and well Jesse's comment regarding his abilities at the beginning of the episode are sort of difficult to disagree with - everyone in Glee sings better than Finn does, and the only one that doesn't - can dance. They won't.
That said? Finn was actually good in this episode for a change. But the star? Hands down was Sue Sylvestrie and the remarkable Jane Lynch.
( spoilers )
As an aside - rewatched Silence in the Library and Forests of the Dead this week - the 2008 Doctor Who episodes. Still blow me away. Although the bits inside the data bank of the library - bug me a little, they are so mundane, and remind me a bit too much of the surbuban hell of the Angel episode Underneath - making me wonder if Whedon's hell is Moffat's heaven? Interesting. May be a cultural thing. US suburbs are tad different than British ones. Bigger country, more vacant space.
(If you don't get what I meant by that - go rent the Cohen Brothers flick A Serious Man.)