Glee – Should it be renamed misery?

Glee, finally, is back. You thought you couldn’t wait the three years since “Sectionals” aired, but some how you were able to survive (OK, so I exaggerate, but, truly, it surely felt like that long). The New Directions team has conquered Sectionals, but Regionals and Vocal Adrenaline are looming on the horizon.

Did absence make the heart grow fonder? It certainly worked for Glee the first time around, airing their pilot last May, letting the buzz build before the September premiere. Personally, I think the show is going to roll right through the end of its inaugural season, but there are those, including our friend Joel Keller at TV Squad, who are predicting Glee’s bubble is going to burst. Tonight’s episode was the first step in deciding which direction the show will go. At this point, I am liking where I’m putting my money.

While things ended on such a high note at McKinley High before, they’ve certainly not sustained that … erm … Glee-ful tone on its return. You had to figure that things weren’t going to go so smoothly for Will and Emma, but I’m not sure I expected to see Will making out with Shelby (Idina Menzel) in the first episode back. Obviously too, things are not settled with Terri, and I’m not sure that they don’t get back together, at least temporarily, before we see the season finale.

While I’m certainly not a Team Puck guy, I really don’t think that Finn and Rachel will ever make a good (read: interesting) couple. I think she’s already shown more chemistry with new boyfriend Jesse (played by real friend Jonathan Groff) than she’s ever showed with Finn. Plus, the whole spying for Vocal Adrenline is a much better storyline then watching Finn and Rachel realize they just don’t work.

The mood around our favorite club with surely rebound. Glee is a brilliant dark comedy, and for dark comedy to work, it can’t all be sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows all the time, now can it?

Brittany is becoming one of my favorite characters on the show. Heather Morris does so much with so few lines. Though, to be honest, she probably gets the best material on the show outside of Sue Sylvester.

Notes & Quotes (Or, in Glee‘s case, it’s all about the quotes this week)

• “Those spotlights in the auditorium don’t run on dreams!”
• “… And Rachel. Now that we’re sorta dating I have to work so much harder to pretend to be listening to her.”
• “You know what else I’m gonna bring? I’m gonna bring some Asian cookery to rub your head with, because right now you have enough product in your hair to season a wok.”
• “We were seduced by the glitz and glamor of showbiz.”
• “You’re a really good dancer.” // “Thanks but my feet really weren’t moving.” // “I know, that was the best part.”
• “I like to flip through the celebrities biographies getting some lifestyles tips.”
• “I’m getting a full ride to the University of California Los Angeles. Have you heard of it? It’s in Los Angeles.”
• “I’m pretty sure you have to do what we say, and this food was not satisfactory.” // “There was a mouse in mine.”
• “Let us give you an introduction into the way you work. You buy us dinner, and we make out in front of you. It’s like the best deal ever.”
• “Did you know that dolphins were just gay sharks?”
• “You are two of the stupidest teens I have ever encountered, and that’s saying something. I once taught a cheer-leading seminar to a young Sarah Palin.”
• “I want a look that’s so optimistic it could cure cancer.”
• “Thanks for the coffee. And making out? Kinda hot.”
• “Have a seat, boy hips.”
• “Or you might end up like Dottie here. Who, although her father offered up a sizable dowry, which included livestock, couldn’t get a date to Homecoming.”

Clacked by Ivey West
on Apr 13, 2010 @ 22:00 EST5EDT