Glee

I read an article in Entertainment Weekly about a new show on Fox called "Glee". Ken Tucker gave a glowing review of the pilot and awarded it an overall A grade. It's about a group of mostly unpopular kids that are in glee club in high school and the teacher that leads them. I thought it sounded pretty good, so I DVR'ed it and watched it last night.

It was fantastic! I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again. The glee club is made up of a a bossy girl that is a good singer, a flamboyant gay boy (he asks the class bullies to let him take off his Marc Jacobs jacket before they throw him in the dumpster), a boy in a wheelchair, an African America girl with a lot of attitude, an Asian girl that stutters and football player that likes to sing Journey songs (Their teacher kind of conned him into joining glee club).


Their teacher is Mr. Schuester (but they call him Mr. Schu) and he is sweet and funny and used to be in glee club when he was in high school. His wife is a shrew and works 12 hours a week at store called Sheets n' Things.

The other teachers are pretty amusing, too. There is the nutrition teacher, who is a germ phobe. The PE teacher is a stocky guy that is hot for the nutrition teacher. And then there's the cheerleading coach, who is bossy and big headed because the cheerleaders were featured on FOX news.

It's a great show with high school bitchiness, cliques, wonderfully performed songs (like "Don't Stop Believing" and "Rehab"), characters that you love, characters that you hate and lots of jazz hands.

I guess it's not going to be on again until this Fall. I don't know if it will appeal to wide range of people, but I really hope it makes it. I know I'll be watching.