The "Glee" Review

So far I have seen 4 episodes of the television show Glee. During the first I watched, I fell asleep. During the final 3, my Fiancee Meghan fell asleep. However, although I had to be at work early the next day, I could not stop watching. On a side note, i rant about MTV's "reality" television show The Hills on about a regular basis once a week. Its racist, sexist, and promotes unrealistic ideas about teenage/ young adult life. I think its also too much pro-capitalism, but in a ridiculously unrealistic way; NONE of those people do anything that promotes a simple, money saving lifestyle. Thats all another convo though. Glee seems to be doing different work, as if it is working to dig deeper than a show like The Hills. If you haven't seen it, it features a well to do Spanish teacher in charge of a Glee club, comprised of highschool students from all walks of life. Captain of the football team, head of the cheerleading squad, a girl who "dresses like a toddler and a grandmother at the same time" that has a bad personality, a homosexual kid, a guy with a mohawk, a "punk" girl, a kid in a wheelchair...although it sounds like a politically correct drenched Gap commercial, all of the differences seem to be teaching the kids sometting about not only other kids lives, but their own. Besides many of the continuing plot points, like the head of the cheer leading squad being pregnant from someone other than her boyfriend, many other, larger issues are brought to the watcher's attention. In one episode, both the teacher and the student's attitudes and thoughts about performance were realigned when they "scrimmaged" if you will against a very showy glee club, and then an all deaf glee club. In another episode, the homosexual kid tells his father, who is an auto mechanic, (one, you would think, who would stereotypically overreact and kick the boy out of his house, disown him, or worse) that he is gay. The father stands up for him, and in doing so, gets harassed. Meanwhile the kid is auditioning for one of his favorite musicals, where he would potentially play a girl's lead role. He butcher's the audition, come to find out, not because he couldn't hit a high F, but because he wanted to protect his father. Now, the only downside is that if you are like me, then during highschool I certainly wasn't taking stock of my life and considering others deep seated emotions on  daily basis. However, the show teaches us to do so, hopefully it will teach younger generations that there are other things in life than being fake blond, having fake tans, eating at expensive restaurants every day, beginning every phrase with the word "like," and, most importantly, that no one is perfect, but we are in our non-perfect life/constant learning experiences every day, together. We might as well try and help each other out.

I give the television show Glee the cool boy head-nod of bro approval.