by Richard
As I might have mentioned a time or two in the past, I hate musicals. Well, I might have to modify that a bit. Not only did I love the Bride & Prejudice movie, I also enjoyed a recent show of South Pacific at a local theater and I’ve become convinced that a musical is one of the best shows on television (along with Lost of course) right now.
I’m talking about Glee, on Fox. Now, understand I still have some sort of antipathy toward the form, but I actually bought the Glee DVD for myself for Christmas. I’d been talking to a couple of the moms down to Speed Racer’s elementary school and they were raving about the show. I figured since it was on a deep-discount sale at Amazon.com I might as well get it. And, boy, am I glad I did.
I popped the first DVD into the player a couple of days ago after I’d been subjected (read tortured by) to a few hours of my wife’s, known to me as She Who Likes Reality Shows Far, Far Too Much, choices. She settled back in her chair, prepared to go to sleep. I did not have high hopes.
Until about one minute into the show. Then I was riveted. I couldn’t look away. At the end of the pilot episode, from the chair next to me, I heard: “Do you have more of these?”
“Yes.”
“Now, please.”
“Yes.”
We haven’t been able to stop watching the first season. Fortunately, the show won a Golden Globe so that speaks well of it coming back for a second season.
Glee is the story of Will Schuster, played by Matthew Morrison, a high-school Spanish teacher who, once upon a time, was a big star in the glee club. But now, the glee club is home only to losers and outcasts who start the day with a Slurpee facial. Administered, of course, by the cool kids or the football players. Even worse, the cheerleaders, the Cheerios, are the stars of the school and their instructor basically gets whatever she wants, including uniforms dry cleaned in Europe. She’s out to destroy the glee club to get all of her budget back.
It’s a fantastic show, with laughs, fantastic musical numbers, and actual drama. You really don’t want to miss it. If you don’t want to buy the DVD, you can find full episodes at Fox.com. Even better news, new episodes start airing on April 13. I know where I’ll be that night.
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