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TV: Glee

Glee 2.22: “New York”

May 25, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “New York.” Dear Glee, why do you so consistently feel the need to sacrifice your characters for the sake of a cheap laugh? There is no way I will ever believe in a million years that Rachel Berry, of [...]

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Glee 2.21: “Funeral”

May 17, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Funeral.” Glee used to be my favorite show on TV. Those of you who have only started reading my site lately might be surprised to go back to my reviews of the first season–hell, even earlier in this season–to [...]

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Glee 2.20: “Prom Queen”

May 11, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Prom Queen.” Well, “Prom Queen” is much better than last week’s episode, but unfortunately, that isn’t saying much, since “Rumours” was one of my least favorite hours that Glee has ever produced. Ruining my favorite album is, thankfully, something [...]

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Glee 2.19: “Rumours”

May 3, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Rumours.” Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is one of my favorite albums of all time, not only because my mom would play some of its more famous tracks often for me when I was a child, but because when I was [...]

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Glee 2.18: “Born This Way”

April 27, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Born This Way.” Hallelujah, praise the musical theatre gods! It only took nearly five months of waiting, but Glee has finally brought us its first near-perfect episode since “A Very Glee Christmas.” For those of you counting at home, [...]

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Glee 2.17: “A Night of Neglect”

April 20, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “A Night of Neglect.” “A Night of Neglect” is one of those episodes of Glee that just kind of lies there. It isn’t offensively bad. It’s just aggressively mediocre, with only the barest sparks of life enlivening the proceedings [...]

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Glee 2.16: “Original Song”

March 16, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Original Song.” Now, that’s more like it, Glee! I just knew you could pull it together for Regionals, or I at least was cautiously optimistic–optimistic because your first two competition episodes were so stellar, cautious because Sectionals this year [...]

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Glee 2.15: “Sexy”

March 9, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Sexy.” Dear Glee, In the immortal words of the Sassy Gay Friend, “What…what…what are you doing?” You are an inherently delightful show with an absolutely inspired concept that is often capable of giving us true televisual brilliance. At your [...]

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Glee 2.14: “Blame It on the Alcohol”

February 23, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Blame It on the Alcohol.” “Blame It On the Alcohol” is one of the strangest episodes that Glee has ever produced. From a plotting, characterization, and pacing standpoint, it is somewhat of an incoherent mess, with nearly all of [...]

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Glee 2.13: “Comeback”

February 16, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Comeback.” All of my regular readers know how much I adore Glee. This is to the point that I am often willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and to try to give a deeper look to even [...]

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