Oh The "Glee" Of It All

Fox has always been unique with its airtime. Whether it is airing the news or sitcoms, Fox knows it has a faithful audience. In order to keep this loyalty, Fox needed a new series and this series is a breath of fresh air.


It is called “Glee” and as you guessed, it is about the Glee club. The show is set in a modern day high school in Ohio. Originally, you would think, great, another musical is just what we need, but in fact, Glee puts a different twist on musicals. When you first see the show, you may have flashbacks of High School Musical. However, this show makes fun of those typical high school clichés, and brings light to reality. The show is more entertaining than serious, and if you are looking for a good laugh, Glee will provide it.

There’s wittiness from the nerds, such as quirky jokes about a girl’s “rumored lust for a Jewfro” and the fact that the club can rehearse a song and end up singing it down a hallway seconds later is outrageous; but that is what makes this show so irresistibly charming. Everything is normal, until the vocal cords come out.

Yet, you will see some familiar faces in the show. From the Forty-Year-Old Virgin and Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jane Lynch plays the chief antagonist, Sue Sylvester. She is the cheerleading coach, and the co-director of the Glee Club. The other director, played by Matthew Morrison, continuously butt heads with Lynch. Their off-chemistry works perfectly for the show as they bicker back and forth; devising plans to take each other down. You cannot help but laugh at Lynch’s continuous minority jokes, when she claims to be diverse and non-racist.

It is not only the relationship of the Glee directors that keep the audience entertained but also the situations each character faces. One Glee member, played by Lea Michele, constantly tries to keep nerdy Jacob Ben-Israel (Josh Sussman) from blogging about her secrets as well as those close to her. The irony of having a nerd with a “Jewfro” act as the high school’s Gossip Girl is wildly entertaining and makes the show that much more enjoyable.

When the club breaks out into a song, this is where the High School Musical flashbacks come into play and the show may seem cheesy. However, that’s the point. The show is a spoof on the musical hype and makes fun of the newest shows in a discrete manner. Glee has all the typical characters of today’s shows, such as the pregnant teenager, the nerd, the jock, the girl who wants the jock, and so on. The plotline mimics other shows so well, that you cannot help but watch.

However, the show does have a mind of its own, and you will see some situations that no show has presented before; but again, these situations are funny and the relationship between parent and child, teacher and student, and teacher and teacher make for a great comedy.

Glee airs on Wednesdays at 9pm, only on Fox.