A Mother RIGHTS the FOX Network

I am less than "gleeful" about GLEE. I watched the first episode last night with my kids, thinking the premise was wonderful, expecting a funny show that depicted characters going against the grain to achieve success. Instead I witnessed a plot that was hijacked by gratuitous amoral behavior that epitomizes the lack of true creative ability in today's writers. Teachers selling pot, adults in authority reeking with disdain for the adolescents they are in position of mentoring, self-absorbed spouses that paint marriage as two strangers cohabitating under the lie of a relationship that symbolizes nothing but misery, the "hero" character of the show planting drugs in a student's locker to blackmail him into joining a club, this passes for entertainment?!

Glee was nothing more than a pathetic display of the worst of humanity. What sort of cretins are writing this drek? My oldest teen came away from the show saying, "The kids obviously can run the club without the teacher-guy. He just wants to take the credit. What a loser." I had to agree, your supposed main character did not succeed with getting the audience on his side. There was not one adult in the show that any teenager would want to be like, let alone listen to. The basic storyline of GLEE held so many possibilities. You somehow managed to take a really positive, funny, relatable plot and turn it to CRAP.

I talked to some other mothers this morning to see if they had watched. Of the five I spoke to, only ONE had watched the entire episode to the end like I did. The others turned the channel when the fired gay teacher exposed his drug habit. What a LAME, unimaginative, pathetic plot point (amongst the many). Either hire some actual writers or please, put on re-runs of Hell's Kitchen. At least Chef doesn't suffer fools the way you expect American viewers to suffer through the vapid storylines you're peddling.

In flee from GLEE,

Amanda Keller

Richmond, VA