This season’s most unexpected success story, Glee is snarky, theatrical, totally addictive — and a cult phenomenon on its way to becoming a national obsession. Read the full post.
Oct 22
2009
09:00 AM ET
This week's cover: Why America is falling for 'Glee'
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I LOVE the show, but 8 million viewers qualifies it as a “national obsession”?
Exactly. EW is notorious for cramming a moderately successful ‘pet’ band or tv show and cramming it down the collective throats of readers for weeks on end.
I love Glee!!! That show is AWESOME!!
The songs are amazing and the characters are lovable. But they REALLY need to clean up the stories. Like someone said, they’re very inconsistent and really unrealistic. If somehow the writing is a little tighter and crisper, this would be an unbelievable show. That said, I still watch this everyweek with a smile on my face because of the songs and the characters.
My wife loves the show, and I’ve tried on more than one occasion to watch it, but it’s just not very good. As a regular participant in musical theater, I find the musical numbers to be so overproduced, unrealistic, and poorly lipsynced that they just ruin any shred of reality that the plot itself requires. How does one take a character to heart when they stop acting and begin miming to a pitch-corrected recording of themselves in a studio, with instruments that clearly aren’t in the room with them?
The writing is acceptable for a primetime comedy (and Jane Lynch would be brilliant even reading Wikipedia articles), but the Disney-esque fakery of the musical scenes totally kills any sense of empathy I could have for the characters.
Scale back the pop production and let the talent speak for itself. Heck, you could even just add some ‘room reverb’ to the music tracks to make them seem vaguely like live performances. As it stands right now, I find it unwatchable. So much talent wasted on such a cheap product.
whoa, drew! no need to over-analyze and nitpick this show. if you don’t like it, don’t watch it. simple enough.
That’s easily one of the worst covers you’ve done. Those pictures are terrible.
As much as I love this show and all its quirkiness, I just hope it won’t be another O.C. and be brilliant for the first season (and possibly another) then take a nose dive. Another problem I see too is alot of the 18-49 demographic will be shifting to another network once LOST returns for its final season in January. Unless Glee moves to Tuesdays after Idol, they will be directly competing with Lost (Wed 9/8c). And as much as I love Glee, it’ll have to take a backseat to Lost, once season six airs.
I’m 49 and I love Glee. My favorites are Kurt and Sue. I’m hoping at Emmy time, those two will get a nod. And of course the show too. This show is going to rack up awards during award sean.
I admit the main reason I love this show is the musical aspect. What other show in the last decade focused/focuses on music, small-town high school glee clubs in particular? Plus, this show makes me happy – especially if Matt Morrison shakes his moneymaker (:P).
And, oh, if Jane Lynch does not win an Emmy next year, I’m officially boycotting the Emmys for life.
I wish the rest of the cast is on that cover, though. It’s an ensemble show and the other kids in New Directions, as well as the adults, deserve to be featured on the cover.
I was so pumped for Glee when I watched the pilot back in May. I’ve watched every episode so far, but honestly, I don’t think the show is very good anymore. It gets by on the music and the quirky, witty one liners. But even the music is overproduced to the point of distracted sometimes. I couldn’t concentrate on Bust a Move last night the production was so overdone.
But the plots are mostly terrible and inconsistent. The stupid baby story with Terri is worse than if it had played out on Days of Our Lives. The Emma/Ken thing is getting increasingly annoying as well. The main characters are not as likable as the show likes to think they are, mostly because the writing for them is so inconsistent. Will is the biggest victim of this by far. I’m sure I’ll get jumped on here and told to GTFO or something, but the show has a lot of faults. It also has things that keep me watching, but I really wish people would address the numerous problems with the writing instead of just heaping praise on it.
It was about time for the Glee cover, EW! I will therefore stop harassing you, at least for now.
Go Glee!
I believe your pollsters have not covered the older generation. Iam 75 yrs young and I already have my friends hooked on it. Yes it is an exgerated play of high school butanyone who has ever went to h.s.can see alot of the basic truth . Some things in life do change but I think everyone can be brought back to the fun times and what seems like tragic stories are the same isssues that has faced all high schoolers thru the years.
Wait. Where is the Lambert post? I don’t see one anywhere!
I do like this show but I also have a host of problems with it. Besides the ones everyone always lists (the horrible pregnancy storyline etc), I also think the male lead, Finn, is awful. The actor looks like a poor man’s Chris Klein and that is an insult, to say the least.
I swear EW is obsessed with mediocrity.
EW promotes too much crap these days.
It’s already too expensive every year.