Reviews Series / Glee

Why Yes This Show Is In Fact Still Awesome (So Stop Bitching Already)

I love this show. I love its mood whiplash, its ability to make me cry and laugh and sit in terror all in the same hour. I love its characters, gross stereotype deconstructions that over time moved into characters as their own right that became more then what they set out to be. I love it's epic music renditions, it's ability to take over the top ballads and trashy pop songs and transform them into something that I don't just listen to, but that I play on my MP 3 player over and over again. I love how it makes me care about these kids lives, how I want Rachel to get her dreams despite all her flaws, how I root for Kurt to find love despite his arrogance and holier-than-thou attitude. I love that people I want to slap upside the head one episode have my heart aching or my fist pumping for them in the next. Just like-wait for it- regular teenagers they can be total jerks, they make mistakes, the fall into classic traps of self esteem and popularity, but I care about their issues anyway, something that shows like Degrassi, Gossip Girl, Friday Night Lights, Dawsons Creek, One Tree Hill, and 90210 always fail to do.

Was season 2 redundant, narm filled, and packed with asinine plotlines? Yes

Did I love every second of it anyway? You bet I did.

The show needs work. It started out great and lost steam, steam it's gaining back. Mistakes were made, plotlines that should have stayed dead (Finn/Quinn/Rachel) where kept going while ones that should have been central where ignored (Beth/Puck/Quinn), some just faded into nothingness (Sunshine, Dustin Gloosby) maybe for the better.

But others still shined (The Hudmels, Rachel's Dreams, Shue's and New York, Sue's slow decline from badass to failure and back again, Santana's sexuality, Klaine) while still others where there in the background keeping us grounded in reality and shameless fluff (Mike/Tina) and more tucked at our heartstrings (Kurt's father's coma, Sam's homelessness, Emma's OCD) and other kept us on the edge of our seats (Karofsky. Full Stop).

The fanbase was divided, but I think by this show's nature that will always be the case. But the end is nowhere near in sight, and nothing short of natural disaster will stop me from sitting down with a Sonic slushy in one hand every Tuesday a remote and in the other, and opening up my life to a little more joy and all that comes with it.