Glee sucks

[oselle]

I dislike Glee for a number of reasons but not the least is because it asks me to believe that in a time when our popular culture is dominated by song-and-dance competitions, a bunch of attractive kids who can really sing and dance would somehow be the school "losers." Really, Glee? Really?

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[the0neru.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU.

While that was certainly more the case when I was in high school back in the Dark Ages, I can't see it these days. Especially the way those kids look.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I just can't figure this show out at all. Is it supposed to be a sort of quasi-fantasy, the way Gilmore Girls was? Because honestly, this is the most frigging fantastical high school I've ever seen on television. And the musical numbers are absolutely dreadful. They all sound like some kind of Up With People halftime show. The popularity of this show completely evades me.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

ahaha -- Up With People! :D I haven't thought about that in ages!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

They were once parodied on The Simpsons as "Hooray For Everything!" which was pretty spot-on.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

You'd think there'd be SOMEONE lower on the totem pole...

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Well at McKinley High, even a kid in a wheelchair can make it onto the football team, so I guess the whole pecking order is out of whack in that place.

[twirlycurls.livejournal.com]

I made it about five episodes in, and that took almost super-human amounts of effort. I just didn't get it. The characters were so unreal, so completely unlike any actual person that it left me shaking my head in bewilderment. Nothing anyone says or does makes any sense. And this high school... kids are allowed to go around assaulting each other willy-nilly with Slushies? And that's... okay? Because if someone did that to my daughter I'd sue the little sociopath's parents, the school, the school district, and anyone else I could think of.

Granted, all of this might just mean that I don't have a sense of humor, as this show is (apparently) TEH FUNNY.

Also, it hates women almost as much as Supernatural.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I don't find anything remotely funny in this show and I'm mystified by its popularity and all the critical acclaim it's gotten. On top of it, the show's creator is supposed to be a Grade-A asshole who publicly and spitefully rants about musicians who won't give permission for their music to be used in the show, as if it's some kind of personal slap in the face, or evidence of their narrow-mindedness. I think the guy really believes he's created something bold and groundbreaking, and not just a smug, humorless High School Musical that takes itself WAY too seriously just because it has a few gay characters. The entire character roll seems to be populated with Types rather than actual people -- there's the quarterback with hidden depth. The flamboyant gay kid with the indomitable spirit. The plus-size sassy black girl. The super-driven "geek." The wheelchair kid. Yeesh. Awful.

[twirlycurls.livejournal.com]

Smug and humorless -- yes, that's it exactly. And bizarrely self-important too, in a way that made me cringe with embarrassment through all the episodes I endured.

The show-runner/creator is the same guy who brought us Nip/Tuck, another show that I just didn't get. I tried to watch a few episodes with a friend who loved it but it was torture. Ugh.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Anything about medical procedures turns me off (you're very unlikely to catch me watching House), but Nip/Tuck was especially revolting. I know that was what they were going for most of the time but ugh...I don't have the stomach for it. I remember also being really turned off by Nip/Tuck's depiction of women, which was often even reflected in their snuff-porny advertisements. I literally used to feel nauseated whenever I saw that one where they were lacing up the flesh on an anonymous woman's back like it was a corset. Ugh. Grotesque.

Since I wrote this post, I've discovered the joy of GleeSucks.com. (http://gleesucks.com/) I wholly concur with everything they say over there, and I'm grateful to them for putting it all in print.