I had actually written out my thoughts on tonight’s Glee in advance, but lost them to the digital 1s and 0s that is my laptop hard drive. In the end, though, I’m just a little glad, as in tonight’s Live-Blog/Chat, one of our frequent attendees, Justin, and I had a little back and forth about how the show continues to under-represent several of the characters. This week, the writers may have made a move to rectify that, at least with Mercedes and Kurt. However, they’ve got a long way to go before they’ve got it right.
As brilliant as some of tonight’s Glee was (and, damn weren’t the musical numbers outstanding?), there were a couple of significant plot happenings. First was Jesse “transferring” to McKinley and New Directions, which I think was unnecessary dramatically, but does provide Jonathan Groff an opportunity to sing with the rest of the cast. More of a surprise, though, was Kurt and Mercedes defection to the Cheerios. It paid immediate returns with their fronting the cheerleaders on “4 Minutes.” They are both probably on the next level down from Shue, Rachel, and Finn as far as featured songs go, and more is definitely a move in the right direction. I think it’s well past time that we saw more of the secondary cast featured.
I’m looking at you, Quinn, Artie, and Tina. Sure, Quinn has had a lot more to do dramatically than the others, but “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Papa Don’t Preach” are two of my favorite songs on the show yet, and I want more. Artie is a bit different, having been almost as many duets as Rachel and Finn, but I can think of only one solo to his credit. Tina’s misuse is almost criminal. “True Colors” proved that she’s go the chops, and the burgeoning relationship between her and Artie should easily serve as an opportunity for both of them to show off their pipes a bit more.
And don’t even get me started on Other Asian (Mike) and Matt. I had to look up their damn names!
But tonight was about Madonna, and I think they worked the Material Girl’s … uh … material into the show quite well. I loved the scene with all of the students dressed in the different looks of Madonna in the background. I would have liked to have seen “All the way May” from A League of their Own, but that’s just me. The music selections were also diverse and well produced. I loved “4 Minutes” and “Express Yourself” in particular. Would have have killed them, though, to include a full length version of Quinn/Dianna Agron’s “Papa Don’t Preach” from “Hairography,” though?
Notes & Quotes
Jesse’s lines were killing me! I could give these writers a big, sloppy kiss … and your chat was fun!
I’m loving the Finn-Santana dynamic these last two episodes. She’s so unapologetically bitchy, it’s awesome.
And the pamphlets behind Emma’s desk are hilarious
LOVED this episode. Confession time: I spent the better part of the ’80s singing along to my double “tape deck” to Madonna playing on one side, and me recording my singing on the other. So yeah, Keith had to listen to me singing over the Glee kids tonight, but at least I had fun! :-) If I were going to try out for American Idol, Madonna (probably “Express Yourself”) would be my audition song … or Joni Mitchell…. ;-)
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Deb: It is much more fun when you sing along!
Oh, and I really don’t care who got to sing or not sing tonight, because I did, LOL! :-)