Glee Season 3 thread

I liked it, too. Enjoyed Blaine's "It's Not Unusual," the Kurt-Rachel duet, the "Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do" mash-up (featuring one of the Glee Project runners-up), and the finale. All satisfying numbers, and with some movement in the personal lives and the personnel at the school, it's off to a nice start.

I enjoyed it quite a bit (then again, I enjoyed season two, too).  The darker humour was back for sure--I mean what else can you call the reference to the Kent State shooting?

 

Still not digging those bangs on Lea Michele, though.

Add me to the choir of the pleasantly surprised. It felt like a television show again instead of some sort of social movement.

Above average compared to last season.  LOVED "We Got The Beat" but wish it had energized the students more...it feels a bit like a rehash of "New York State Of Mind" last season.

I spotted So You Think You Can Dance contestant Melinda Sullivan in the tap dancing crew.

Wow!  Two excellent shows in a row!  Focusing on Mercedes and Mike?  BRILLIANT!  Great song choices, LOVED the storyline with BOTH sets of parents.  Glee's got its groove back!

The last two shows have been strong, and musically they've been spot-on. Really nice to get the backstory on Mike Chang, and Harry really got to shine in "Cool" with singing and dancing.

Last night's episode was one of the best of the entire series. I like that the show showcases genuinely decent parents mixed in with the bad ones. As much as I can't stand Kurt, Kurt's dad is one of my favorite TV characters. And the music was really, really solid.

I agree, Adam.  This was one potentially the episode of the series, for me.  Everything worked.

 

Love it or hate it, Glee really does have some of the best camera work and editing on TV.

I agree with you there.

I think I'm done with Glee. It took two weeks and two 30-min viewings to get through the premiere. And I've had no interest in subsequent episodes. The fun for me is gone.

 

I'll check back to see if people think it's worthwhile this season and perhaps pick it up during the Winter TV hiatus.

Good but not great episode.  LOVED "Candyman" and "Being Green."

Probably my least favorite episode so far this season. The Irish guy felt shoehorned in -- which he was, as a contest winner -- and I'm not really loving the Shelby/Puck hook-up. This show trivializes everything, including it seems, raising a child.

When Kurt's dad said that Kurt was going to be his campaign manager, but he could use adult supervision, I had to laugh. The guy's running for Congress, not a seat on the town board.

EDIT: Puck, not Finn
Edited by Adam Lenhardt - 11/3/11 at 6:54am

I thought the same.   Besides, last year they joked that Sue was in 8th place in the race, out of all the 3rd party candidates.. and now Burt is her only opposition as a write in candidate.. in a swing state like Ohio?!@?!?

 

I really dislike everything they do with Britney.   They have made her out to be completely mentally disabled.   Which makes all the jokes at her expense and the playing along with her brutal at times... too brutal.   If her character is as impaired as they portray it, then she shouldn't be in normal high school classes, and she couldn't hold together the grades to maintain two extra curricular activities.  No way. 

At one time my favorite show on television, this season, even with the addition of a full-time writing staff, has left me very disappointed. The momentum is floundering, and when Damien McGinty was being shoved into lockers, I moaned aloud that we were going to that bullying place again (I guess the hall monitors that were on patrol and allowed Kurt to return to McKinley are long gone). I just find myself impatient now with the lack of continuity, an irritation that even the best musical numbers can't placate.

Oh, you mean minor things like the anti-bully campaign that was the result of a season long storyline (that is now apparently completely forgotten) or the singing and dancing about how alcohol abuse is bad, then the jokes this year about geting boozed?   This show for me has gone the route of Heroes.. a great, great initial setup and first season, and then a struggle to find any creative move forward since

 

 

 

 

Dropped from my DVR now.

 

Ok, here's the problem:

 

Basically what starts out as virtual date rape in one case (Kurt) then, oh, it recovers.. he's sorry, and a beautiful moment at the end (shockingly unrealistic)

Peer pressure on all people.. and while there is a good moment in there, there are also a lot of boneheaded comments that wreck the narrative of the show.

The song numbers are good - and one is very good - but the narrative from last season is totally gone.   The relationship that existed between Britney and Artie was sweet last year; they revealed she really cared for him and was crushed when he felt she was stupid.   So, for Artie to make wry comments about how stupid she was and how he had sex with a girl who struggled remembering his name wasn't funny, it was terrible and demoralizing.. it burns the bridge of the relationship that was setup last year and it further paints Britney as being mentally challenged.. and pokes fun at it.

 

I just have no idea what kind of train wreck is brewing on this show, but I'm now out.

I liked it a lot better than last week. The "West Side Story" numbers were great, particularly "America" because Santana made a fantastic Anita. They went with the film version, which isn't a surprise because it's both less racist and more dramatically satisfying. I also really liked the scene at the gay bar with Karofsky.

Didn't need to revisit the ridiculous Dalton Academy. Didn't buy the idea that anybody who hasn't lost virginity can't play Tony and Maria. Didn't buy the recruiter who just happened to be totally into Coach Beist.

In short, a mix of the strong qualities of Season 1 and the miserable qualities of Season 2. I'm probably with it until the end, but I don't look forward to it much any more.

I despised Artie being the arbiter of quality AND Mr. Fix-It with the love lives of actors AND adults. Can you imagine quizzing any high school teacher or coach about his/her love life when you were in school, much less giving out dating advice to adults? And Coach Bieste's inability to pick up on the recrtuiter being nice to her bordered on Brittany-stupidity. NO adult is THAT naive and clueless.

 

The Artie business got me so fired up that it was hard for me to enjoy the musical numbers as good as most of them were. Yep, Santana was a terrific Anita, and I was surprised and pelased to hear Lea Michele's head voice which would be neccessary for much of Maria's music. I was hoping we'd see Mike and the guys do "Jet Song," but it wasn't to be.

I think 'date rape' may be a slight overstatement, but I didn't particularly enjoy the two big deflowering moments that were trumped up by the media. The music, however, was wonderful. And that's why I will be with this show until its final episode. And I will continue to argue that all the inconsistencies in character and fractured narratives that were criticized in season 2 and are again being referenced this year were also there in season 1, when the show was everybody's flavor of the month. I will tolerate these issues in exchange for consistently clever writing and some marvelous musical performances. Lea Michele's voice can still take my breath away.

Absolutely agree.  I'm convinced there's some sort of psychological factor at play with most shows, whereby everyone ignores a show's flaws because they are wrapped up in the introduction to the characters, plot, and relative "new-ness."  Glee s.1 wasn't that much different from s.2, LOST was basically the same all throughout, so was BSG, Heroes (seriously!), and I could go on.

 

The writing on Glee is topical, clever, and darkly humourous at times.  The directing and editing are, with no hyperbole, some of the best on television, full stop.  The actual camera work *is* the best.  The music is still great, though of course not every song is a home run for me (are they for anyone?).

 

Regarding this past episode, my only problem was no "Gee, Officer Kruptke."  The song is such a smash with audiences that I've seen productions where they close the first act with it, instead of the deaths of Riff and Bernardo, simply because brings the house down every time.  That being said, every number from West Side has been stellar, and I really liked the change-up of bringing the Jets in with the Sharks for "America."

 

I'm a sucker for musicals, and Glee hits all the right notes for me.  Maybe when Smash premieres on NBC this winter, we'll see the competition tighten up the story-telling on Glee.

It'd be difficult for me to grade anything below "good" for any episode where the Warblers perform. Uptown Girl was worth the price of admission for me. It was especially pleasing because I didn't think I'd ever see them again performing. Thanks to the creative talent at Glee for not writing them out.

 

 

Great episode tonight- the Adele mash-up was one of the best musical numbers of the season, if not the series. I only wish they weren't turning Quinn into such a villain.

Not sure about that - BSG and Lost I felt they maintained the quality pretty much throughout all the seasons, but there was a definite drop in quality from S2 of Heroes onwards. The biggest difference for me was the development of the plot in BSG and Lost felt rather more natural and well thought out as did Heroes Season 1. It felt like they put the story first and then looked at where this logically took their characters as we knew them. But Heroes S2 seems to completely lose focus on telling a story and deal with it the opposite way around become more focused what the characters were and then contriving plots for them depending on how they came across in S1 (Hiro is the funny one - lets give him a comedic storyline ; The two brothers are the main two heroes - lets see how they deal with villainous parents.)

As to Glee, Im one who enjoyed S1 but didn't like hardly any of S2. From what I have seen so far I feel there has been a definite improvement in Season 3 so far, the last episode being one of the best so far and that obviously comes from the conflicts they have created. The breakup of the characters into 2 groups actually feels pretty genuine rather than contrived given these characters' personalities and is making it much more watchable than Season 2.

Ugh. What an artificial hour of television. Right there with the worst of season 2.

I don't think the writers know how to write for the adults any more at all.