Waiting for Glee to Fail
From what I can tell, Glee is about a high school glee club started by a new male teacher whose wife hates him. The glee club is a refuge for all of the kids that don't fit into traditional high school cliques, such as kids that dye their hair or are the obviously-gay stock character. Oh wait, when I went to high school a mere year ago, there were cliques for almost everyone and no one was an outcast. Never mind. (Note: Since it's been suggested in the comments that I am a "latent homophobe," I'd like to point out that I am not a latent homophobe. I watch Project Runway. I think men should be able to carry bags. I cried while reading The Notebook. I'm even planning on writing a series of articles in support of gay marriage.)
Anyway, the glee club faces opposition from the cheerleading coach, who, I don't know, maybe hates everyone. Her dislike of the glee club seems irrational, as she probably wouldn't want any of the students in the glee club on her cheerleading squad anyway.
So that's Glee. It seems simultaneously extremely unrealistic and extremely uninteresting. This is all my opinion, of course, and I've only seen the commercials. Oh right, the commercials. That's why I want Glee to fail.
You see, I would have no problem with Glee if it were just unrealistic and uninteresting. I can manage not to watch the show, I'm sure. My problem with Glee is that it is advertised so frequently. It seems like there are ads for it during every other commercial break. To me, that's a little excessive. Especially since it's been advertised heavily since spring and it doesn't debut until fall. That's it. This fall. They don't even give a date on the commercial. Really. If you're going to invest so much time and advertising space showing commercials for a show, at least pick a date that the show will premiere.
As a result of all this advertising, I hope Glee fails. I hope it bombs in five episodes or less. It certainly wouldn't be the first or last time that a FOX show has failed spectacularly. I've put up with watching way too many advertisements for this show - I don't want to have to watch commercials for years to come. Oh, also I'm spiteful. But I'm sure you already figured that out.
Are you looking forward to Glee? Or are you sick of the commercials just like I am? Feel free to share your thoughts in the form of a comment. Thanks for reading!
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7 Comments
Post a CommentI agree on the quality that Jamie has established for the critique: horrible. The whole entire point of the show is to entertain young adults who are going through the same, or at least similar experiences.
Oh, and the whole issue of "moking Christianity"... It's just plain lucky that teenagers find a way of criticizing religion in this way. I don't mean to criticize Christianity in any form, but teenagers ae naturally inquisitive and will naturally challange the world around them. It is lucky that they've chosen to protest in this form and not any other.
First, your article was horribly written. That is probably the reason why you are writing on Associated Content for a mere $5 per article - that just shows the extent of your horrible writing abilities. Second, this is a tv show! It does not have to be real. It is suppose to be entertainment. Third, you are a homophobe.
That was a response to Brook Flagg, by the way.
It doesn't mock Christianity; it mocks the problematic, contradictory messages put forth by the abstinence movement. So it mocks a particular segment of Christianity, but one that probably should be critiqued more often. (I can see how Christians would be upset that Quinn is portrayed in such a negative light, though, but it gets a bit better by episode 4.)
And yes, of course, there are sympathetic gay characters, if that's what you really mean by the show not being "family-friendly." Because discrimination and belittlement is totally a "family value," and accepting people for who they are is not.
Whiner. So you don't like it, fine, I hate American Idol and have had to endure it even on the news as if it is news. Get over it. Wanting to has something fail cause you don't like it is selfish and petty.
And Brook, if so many of the religious weren't so hypocritical it wouldn't be so easy to make fun of...You need to pay closer attention to the commercials because it was very clear this was a satire and adult. Hello written and produces by Ryan Murphy, now that was clue to its content.
Most every show on Fox fails. If it weren't for Family Guy and The Simpsons (who suck now, btw), Fox would be off the air because of its rate of failure.
Generlly when the advertise something that much it ends up sucking!