Watch Some Glee!

So excited for Glee, but coming from a fan of Cop Rock, I guess it’s not surprising!

Smart, well written, clever shows (Ed, Pushing Daisies, Arrested Development, etc) don’t stay around very long. I hope that Glee can buck the trend and garner a lot of fan support from the beginning.

Here’s the thing, I was soooo pumped for this show but I’m disappointed that it was more of High School Musical than Fame in the sense that they other kids are like window dressing half the time. It makes no sense considering this is a show centered around a show choir.

Still going to give a shot in the hopes that the other characters don’t come off as flat as they did on the first episode.

Thanks so much for the reminder last nite MJ! I got the opportunity to share it with my 22 yr. old stepdaughter (moved back home) and she absolutely loved it.

I was so surprised she actually song along to DSB – WOW – until she reminded me her Dad had introduced Journey into my life…….DSB was so good I used to put earphones on in the van…..I would always tell the kids to listen……….they did…….it became a family favorite for the good times!

I really hope this show will become a family viewing experience….it is that good. If it catches on the way I think it will, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it gives AI a run for the money!!

FOX thanks for another entertaining program……….
I’m sure you are smiling again…all the way to the bank!

I’ll be back on Friday MJ – your enthusiasm is ditto for me!

“GLEE” is an entertaining fluff in other words there aere deeper shows out there. That said I enjoyed watching it and will watch it this season if it is not against my favorites..Sort has a “High School Musical ” quality to it..It seems popular..

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cilady, I’ve been reading whatever articles I can find about the show over the summer, and it sounds like the DO have a lot more character development for the other glee club members, including a solo song for Mercedes in an upcoming episode. I’m not sure if anyone else besides Rachel or Finn has their own solo but I know Mercedes does.

Member of the press who have had advanced viewing of a few upcoming episodes have said that the show definitely delivers on the promise of the pilot. There’s actually a LOT of info out there if you look for it.

Yeah I love this show and am so excited, I think it has alittle bit of something for all ages. I saw your reminder last night and was totally thrilled. Friday too, I’m so there…

Oh yeah and don’t shoot me but I liked there version of DSB a lot better than the idols, now if Adam and that lead girl(?) sang it together I think I would like that the best!

I hope Bruce is watching this show and learning how to film shots of people singing and moving around the stage. Sure, this is an edited show so he can’t get to that level, but surely he could frame shots a little better (we even saw the dancers’ feet. Amazing!)

Seems like a fun show. And it kicks butt all over the charts, so it will be interesting to watch.

Game on with Carrie on Nov. 3rd.

I can see why people would like it, but Glee makes my teeth ache. Sorry, I tried.

I’ve had it on my Humax for a month, but couldn’t bring my self to play it. I finally broke down and watched it late last night after seeing mj’s heads-up thread.
I’m sorry to say, I couldn’t get trough it. Just not my cuppa I guess. It’s too light, too happy, too sugary, too ridiculous for my dark tastes. My 12 year old niece should love it though, I’ll give her a shout so she can look out for it when it airs in the UK.

I highly enjoyed watching Glee last night. I had missed the pilot when it premiered after SYTCD last month. This show is funny, intelligent, and I love all the satire. Yes, I will definitely watch it again.

I love this show so much. I’m already caught up in Will/Emma. And what is up with his wife?? Is she really pregnant? Well, is she???

I thought the pilot was a little more School of Rock than High School Musical, yet there’s this oddly serious undercurrent beneath the fluff. At the same time, there’s enough irreverence to make up for the cornball plot line. I mean, the champion high school glee club singing “Rehab” like an Up-With-People song? Finn’s girlfriend, head of the Chastity Club, getting him all hot and bothered, then stopping him by saying, Let us pray?” Sue, the evil cheerleading coach, throwing out lines like, “You think this is tough, try being waterboarded!” or “You think you’ve got it rough, try living with hepatitis C.” The principal, talking about renting out the auditorium for AA meetings, “AA is willing to pay by the head. There’s a lot of drunks in this town.” Good stuff.

“I’m on my feet 4 hours a day, three days a week! You expect me to come home and cook my own dinner, too?!” And said with a straight face. And with such earnestness. Love it:D

I know this was filmed quite a while ago, but they are going to have to delete references to myspace and replace them with Facebook.
Looking forward to any solos from the boy who sang “Mr.Cellophane”.

LOVE this snarky, black-humored version of HSM. As somebody who watches the latter with my kids, I actually enjoy it, but Glee is much more the way I remember high school. And the musical numbers are fantastic.

Looking forward to any solos from the boy who sang ‘Mr.Cellophane’ .

LOL to “Mr. Cellophane.” All I could think of was poor Jasmine Trias being forced to sing that during Top 3 week of her season.

I just loved the way they took traditional “feel good TV moments” and kind of turned them on their head. Finn, giving an “inspirational” speech to the football team after they locked the boy in the wheelchair in the porta-potty, “We’re all losers! This is a town full of losers! I call myself a loser because that’s what I am!” Will’s slow clap for the kids after he witnessed DSB – except there was no one else there to join in to turn it into the traditional roar of applause.

I know this was filmed quite a while ago, but they are going to have to delete references to myspace and replace them with Facebook.

Newscorp owns Fox. They also own MySpace. So no, although the references to My Space aren’t realistic, they’ll be staying in. .

Looking forward to any solos from the boy who sang ‘Mr.Cellophane’ .

I agree.

Also, I just love this show! I have been involved with show choir for years — since High School and later as an adult slave volunteer.

If you ever want to see a great Show Choir competition live, the Nationals in Nashville are worth the trip. (Still hoping that “my kids” will get there someday. Right now we’re just dreaming of winning the Mississippi State competition — no small feat.)

Here’s a link to theie National Show Choir Competition site with video highlights of the 2009 competitors.

http://www.showchoirnationals.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3SgIijw-nU heres a link for a new preview, I’m excited!

‘I’m on my feet 4 hours a day, three days a week! You expect me to come home and cook my own dinner, too?!’ 

Absolutely my favorite quote of the whole episode…and the Pottery Barn references and the craft room. The writer’s are getting those stereotypes down to a “T”.

I know that it’s TV and it’s about suspending disbelief, but it gets to me that there were more musicians and voices than presented in the performance. The three background singers were only singing the “ba-ba-bas”. There was a chorus of others, mostly male voices singing a baritone backup vocals too.

Otherwise, love the show and the writing. Looking forward to next year when Jane Lynch picks up her Emmy.

Zsus
LOL to ‘Mr. Cellophane.’  All I could think of was poor Jasmine Trias being forced to sing that during Top 3 week of her season.

Heh. Whenever I hear that song I always think of John C. Reilly’s rendition of it (so awesome) – and no one else even comes close.

I saw mj’s reminder and decided to check it out for the first time; I didn’t really watch it – it was more like background noise while I organized myself for going out of town this weekend. I thought some of the voices were great (Rachel?) but a couple were cringe-worthy.

Overall I’ve never been into this type of show – Twin Peaks, Bones, Criminal Minds, American Gothic (god I miss that show!) and the like are more my speed. [gee, 'dark' much?? lol]

What I thought was *hilarious*, however, was the scene with the kid in the shower singing “Can’t Fight This Feeling” at the top of his lungs, and the look on the teacher’s face as he stood listening (his expression was a little too ‘ecstatic’ considering he’s watching a teenage boy in the shower IMO – it IS a family show after all, lmao!!). Tooooo funny!!

I’m always surprised when people declare this show too “light” or “sappy” or “shallow”, because when I first saw it, I thought it was incredibly witty with a dark, dry undertone of humor. Sure, there are some cheesy musical numbers, but I love that it’s mostly not in the vein of High School Musical where they literally just break out into a song in the middle of the hallways. The songs are inserted very appropriately, are done VERY professionally, and have a certain hipness and modernity that HSM sorely lacked.

Love. Love. LOVE this show. Can’t wait for it to start!

HSM is Cheez Whiz on a saltine cracker. Glee is WAY better than that. It’s a lot snarkier and more amusing, for one thing, plus it has really talented people, unlike the plastic prancing ponies on HSM. Matthew Morrison (Light in the Piazza, Hairspray, Footloose, Rocky Horror) and Lea Michele (Spring Awakening, Les Miz) are real-live Broadway stars. Jane Lynch is one of the Christopher Guest stable of hilarious, eccentric, so smart it hurts featured actors. Stephen Tobolowsky has made a mark on everything from Seinfeld to Groundhog Day and Heroes. He was freakin’ Ned Ryerson!

I love the subversive humor in “Glee,” from the skeevy wife who works with peed-on sheets to the germophobe teacher, the creepy lawncare guy with the mullet who sings DSB, the “Cheerios,” the evil cheerleaders and their even more evil coach, the deadpan principal, and the wannabe diva with two dads and an inflated sense of self. (She’s right out of “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” by way of “Speech and Debate,” a REALLY dark and funny little play.) None of the characters are sweet or nice or cloying, except maybe the teacher played by Matthew Morrison, but he’s so clueless and so played by everybody around him that he’s funny, too.

Notice that the musical numbers are built into the plot — kids performing where there would be performances in real life — instead of prancing around singing about how much they love each other on plastic balconies with plastic flowers.

I suppose the athlete who wants to sing is kind of out of the HSM playbook, but that’s a pretty slender similarity. To me, this is to HSM as The Princess Bride is to fairytales or Arrested Development was to standard sitcoms. Wayyyy better, funnier and snarkier.

The fact that its soundtrack has topped the charts is a hopeful sign. Rock on, Glee!

Loved it even more on the second viewing.

Love Glee. Cannot wait for next Weds. (:

I could possibly get hooked on this show, but am short of time mid-week. I loved the songs and dancing.

I love the subversive humor in ‘Glee,’  from the skeevy wife who works with peed-on sheets to the germophobe teacher, the creepy lawncare guy with the mullet who sings DSB, the ‘Cheerios,’  the evil cheerleaders and their even more evil coach, the deadpan principal, and the wannabe diva with two dads and an inflated sense of self.

*THIS*

watched it with my 16 (going on 21) year old and her 2nd BFF. The girls thought it was a little corny but had potential. They both love SYTYCD – much more sophisticated.

Is it sad that I hear Michael and Megan in my head when Glee DSB starts to play heh, the summer of Idol Love…

I was entertained by the pilot when it aired in the spring. The only question is can a show like that be sustained at close to that level through a network run. Making a pilot is a bit like writing a good first novel, it’s all about where it goes from here.

One big plus is that it isn’t reality TV!

the champion high school glee club singing ‘Rehab’  like an Up-With-People song? Finn’s girlfriend, head of the Chastity Club, getting him all hot and bothered, then stopping him by saying, Let us pray?’  Sue, the evil cheerleading coach, throwing out lines like, ‘You think this is tough, try being waterboarded!’  or ‘You think you’ve got it rough, try living with hepatitis C.’  The principal, talking about renting out the auditorium for AA meetings, ‘AA is willing to pay by the head. There’s a lot of drunks in this town.’  Good stuff.

Zsus those were my favorite part as well. Especially the Rehab song, and the praying. So funny.

The tweets took up 1/3 of the screen on my tv, it was distracting. I’m not their target demographic anyway. I enjoyed it but the format, i.e. the way it is filmed, jumps around, in your face, I don’t care for those kind of shows usually. But I like the humor and dancing/singing.