Oooh, can you smell it? Fall season premieres are brewing!
On tap for tonight is the first non-pilot episode of Glee, the buzzed-about high school Glee Club comedy. The pilot aired back in May following American Idol (sweet spot!) and has been available online for quite some time. Tonight, however, we finally get our next look.
Created by Ryan Murphy (Popular, Nip/Tuck), Glee follows William McKinley High School’s show choir as it it’s taken over by Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), an idealistic Spanish teacher who hopes to revive the team to its former glory.
The Glee Club consists of a slew of lovable losers and a handful of misguided popular kids, including superstar and popular kid whipping post Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) and former star quarterback Finn Hudson (Colin Monteith). Singing back up are diva Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), flamboyant Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), wheelchair-bound Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), and goth Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz).
Also in the mix are the Glee Club’s two arch-nemesis groups: the cheerleading squad (or “Cheerios”) and a football-teamful of bullies.
I finally caught the show’s pilot this past weekend and I think Glee’s got promise. It has some tone issues, can be overly cheesy, and has a few stereotypical characters, but it’s quite pleasant to look at, has got some great one-liners, and the musical numbers (including a rousing rendition of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” in the pilot) will leave you positively… gleeful! SNAP!
And best of all, we’ve got the amazing Jane Lynch (Best in Show, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, other misc. Christopher Guest and Judd Apatow movies), as head cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, a woman unafraid to be absolutely cruel and crass. Sample quote: “You think this is hard? I’m living with Hepatitis, that’s hard!” LOVE HER!
Tune in tonight! We’ll see how Glee progresses. Catch the pilot here, in case you missed it.
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