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“Don’t Stop…”: Glee: The 10 Best Performances of Season 1

June 16, 2010
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Note: The following list contains spoilers for the entire first season of Glee. In order to help us transition into our next few Glee-less months, I thought a nice place to start might be to look back at the just-finished Season 1 and discuss my top ten favorite performances from the first season.  One thing to [...]

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Glee 1.22: “Journey”

June 9, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Journey.” “Journey” is really the perfect title for Glee‘s first season finale, and what is so wonderful about the episode itself is how beautifully it captures the journey that we’ve taken with New Directions so far, since that long ago [...]

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Glee 1.21: “Funk”

June 1, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Funk.” “Funk” may very well be the most disappointing episode of Glee to date.  Sure, it has its moments, such as the peek at Sue’s trophy-ridden apartment, the sweet scene between Quinn and Mercedes, and the hilarious news footage of [...]

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Glee 1.20: “Theatricality”

May 26, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Theatricality.” It’s funny.  I had been anticipating the Neil Patrick Harris/Joss Whedon episode of Glee to such a fever pitch that it never occurred to me that the next episode might sneak up on us and be even better, but [...]

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Glee 1.19: “Dream On”

May 19, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Dream On.” Directed by Buffy/Angel/Firefly mastermind Joss Whedon and guest-starring the one and only Neil Patrick Harris, “Dream On” was arguably the most anticipated episode of Glee to date, with the possible exception of “The Power of Madonna”.  And did it [...]

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Glee 1.18: “Laryngitis”

May 12, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Laryngitis.” After last week’s slight mishmash of an episode, Glee is mostly back on track this week with the far stronger, more cohesively composed “Laryngitis.”  This still is not a perfect Glee outing, though all will be forgiven if this [...]

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Ryan Murphy, Pre-Glee: Popular

May 6, 2010
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Many people might think that Glee is Ryan Murphy’s first campy high-school-set series to feature a bright, cartoony tone, broadly comedic characters, soapy twists, and musical numbers.  These people would be wrong.  In fact, just over 10 years ago, Murphy co-created a wonderful and bizarre series entitled Popular that aired for two seasons on the [...]

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Glee 1.17: “Bad Reputation”

May 5, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Bad Reputation.” Oh, well, they can’t all be winners.  After a trilogy of fantastic episodes, Glee hits a slight rough patch this week with “Bad Reputation.”  That is not to say that the episode isn’t stuffed to the brim full [...]

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Glee 1.16: “Home”

April 28, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Home.” What I find most wonderful so far about the new batch of Glee episodes is how the rapid-fire pacing has slowed down just enough to allow the series to more fully evolve into the weekly dose of musical theatre [...]

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Glee 1.15: “The Power of Madonna”

April 21, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “The Power of Madonna.” I never thought I’d have something in common with Sue Sylvester, that is until last night’s episode of Glee, when the Track Suited One revealed her adoration for the one and only Material Girl.  I have [...]

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