Glee 3×06 “Mash Off”

The Troubletones: Santana (Naya Rivera), Mercedes (Amber Riley), Brittany (Heather Morris) perform a Mash-Up of Adele on "Glee"

“Everyone already knows!”

Lets start with Quinn/Puck/Shelby. So Puck is in love with Shelby and it’s creepy… very very creepy. He even goes as far as to corner her in her classroom and tell her that he can’t stop thinking about her and that he knows that she wants him and it’s all just dirty and weird to me. Quinn is still on a mission to destroy Shelby in order to get her daughter Beth back from her. Quinn is delusional. Nobody in there right mind is going to give that teenager a kid. Puck confesses to Shelby that Quinn planted things in her apartment to make her seem like a bad parent and then called CPS. Shelby is pissed, especially since Quinn asked her to join her choir group in order to get closer to her. I love the glare that Shelby sends Quinn when New Directions is singing there mash up. You can just see the hatred and loathing in her eyes and it’s fantastic. Quinn ends up showing up at Shelby’s house w/ a gift asking when she can see Beth, Shelby says, no, and tells her that she knows about CPS and pretty much tells her what I’ve been saying all along: Nobody is going to give that “skank” a kid! NOBODY!

Then there’s the Rachel/Kurt storyline. Rachel, Kurt and Brittany are running for class president. Kurt is pissed off at Rachel for trying to steal his thunder. He’s not talking to her at all and the two had been really close since the beginning of the season. All of the candidates are asked to give a speech at a school assembly. Kurt gives his about anti-bullying (he focuses more on anti-dodgeball) which makes Rachel realize that he is the best option for president. When she gives her speech she ends up telling all the people in the audience (all 30 of them) to vote for Kurt for president. Cue adorable makeup session in the hallway. I love Kurt and Rachel together as friends. They are damn adorable.

Sue and Burt are still battling over the state senate seat. Sue has gone so far as to run false political ads about Burt claiming that he has a Baboon heart and that he’s married to a donkey. It’s all very ugly.

Now the juicy storyline: Santana and Finn. Santana is back to being the school bully, and her target: Finn. She makes comments about his weight, his singing and everything else that he can think of. They decide to settle their differences on the dodge ball court (which, I’m sorry, is pretty lame. No high school teenager has every used the phrase “lets settle this with dodge ball.” You know how many kids these days have weapons and are willing and able to kick your ass without the help of a rubber red ball? Ya, dodge ball = lame). Santana and the Troubletones win. Santana is urged to apologize to Finn by Brittany, but Santana is definitely not good at apologizing because she just seems to make it worse because Finn goes off on Santana telling her (really loudly and in the school hallway) that she should just come out of the closet already. Everyone knows that she’s in love with Brittany and it must be hard not to show everyone how much she cares for her. Oh snap! Well, with everything that Santana said, it’s not surprising that Finn blew up on her. You can only push a person so far. Well when Finn said all these things, he was overheard by a kid of one of the candidates for senate who uses Santana’s lesbianism as an attack on Sue. The candidate says in an ad that Sue can’t be all for family values when she promoted a lesbian cheerleader to cheer captain. Needless to say this ad upset Santana… a LOT. She ends up slapping Finn in the face after the Troubletone’s mash up performance. Ouch.

Quotes:

Brittany: “Rachel Berry is still on Myspace.”

Rachel: “I just really want to be your friend again.” Kurt: “Well you should have thought of that before you walked all over me on your borderline sociopathic climb to the top.”

Santana: “Please put a sock in it or ship yourself back to Scotland. I’m trying to apologize to Lumps the Clown.”

Santana: “The Troubletones are 3F; fierce, femme and phenomenal.”

Overall Grade: C. This episode was pretty slow and things didn’t really get interesting until the end when Santana was shown the ad that revealed to the world that she was a lesbian. I was bored. The dodge ball fight was lame, you kind of saw how the Kurt/Rachel storyline would go and Quinn just majorly pisses me off. Oh, and was I the ONLY one that didn’t like the Adele mashup? Nobody sings like Adele so I really wish they would stop trying. Oh, and the Hall and Oates porn stashes made me laugh so hard. Overall, the last 5 minutes were the only part of the episode that I found interesting.

What did you think of “Mash Off?” Hit the Comments!

Next new episode of “Glee” airs Tuesday November 29^th at 8pm EST on FOX.

-Casey (@SecretAgentNerd)

Glee 3×05 “The First Time”

Blaine (Darren Criss) and Rachel (Lea Michele) perform 'West Side Story' on "Glee"

The kids are all grown up and lacking in parental supervision! I wonder what’s going to happen…

So Artie is directing “Westside Story” and is worried about Rachel and Blaine’s performance… how can they play people that are going through a sexual awakening when they themselves have never had sex? Well…

Let’s start with Finchel. Finn’s parents aren’t home… so he invites Rachel over for “dinner.” The two share a meal, and decide to snuggle by the fire where Rachel reveals that shes basically doing this because she wants the experience to perfect her role as Maria. Naturally Finn is hurt. Later in the episode we find out that Finn is looking forward to the fact that a recruiter is coming to town to take a look at the football team. Turns out that the recruiter wants to get to know Coach Beiste a little better (get some Beiste!) and has no interest in recruiting Finn but is looking at another player on the team. Finn is obviously upset (what is this, bag on Finn episode?) and after seeing “West Side Story” he decides to go home without so much as talking to Rachel. She decides to stop by his house, finds out about the recruiter, and comforts Finn… the two end up getting to know each other in the Biblical sense.

Next there’s Klaine… my favorite couple on the show. Blaine goes back to Dalton to see the Warblers, which is awesome, I really, really like them. Anyway there’s a new gorgeous young thing in the group named Sebastian who calls Blaine “sex on a stick” (I’m glad someone said this… I’ve been saying this for awhile… that boy is gorgeous.) Enter jealous Kurt. Sebastian tells the two that he can supply them with fake I.D’s in order for them to get into the gay bar “Scandalous.” Blaine claims that it’s not there thing, but jealous Kurt says they should go, so they do. At the bar, Kurt runs into Karofsky and there’s a surprising/touching scene between the two of them. Blaine is dancing with Sebastian all night and gets sloppy drunk… like completely hammered drunk. Kurt is supporting Blaine as they leave the bar and when they reach the car, Blaine pulls Kurt in with him and tries to get Kurt to have sex. Kurt is pissed, he says that he wants his first time to be romantic and he is feeling not at all romantic because Blaine has been dancing with someone else all night. Blaine storms off. Later, after the first performance of “West Side Story,” Blaine is working on a dance move that he says he messed up during the performance. Kurt walks in, the two make up (and it’s a really sweet moment) and instead of going to the after party, they decide to go to Blaine’s house. You can guess what happens there. (Also: I’m going to go on a mini rant for a minute: people were upset that this was included into the episode, and to those people I have one thing to say, and pardon my language: go fuck yourself! Nothing was shown, they didn’t get Brokeback Mountain with the scene, it was two people, in love, cuddling in a bed with the intention of having sex. There are heterosexual couples on television that have way more graphic sex than this everyday and people don’t bat an eye. It saddens me greatly that this homophobia still exists in this country. People are people, no matter who they love. So if you were one of the ones upset, you are the problem with this country, not the solution. Anyway… back to the recap.)

There were two weird parts to me in this episode. Artie freaks out because he thinks that everything that he did was wrong in his direction of “West Side Story.” His fears are quelled when the cast gives him flowers for the great job he did on the show.

Also: Mike’s dad shows up out of nowhere and yells at him for still doing the show. His dad claims that until he gives up this foolish idea of being a dancer, he is no longer his son. Mike tells him that he doesn’t have a father than (go Mike!).

Small reveals in the episode: Beiste gets a date with the recruiter. Mike and Tina have had sex (I don’t know why this shocked me, but for some reason it did.)

Quotes:

Karofsky: “I’m what they call a bear cub.” Kurt: “Because you look like Yogi?”

Sebastian: “I don’t know who this Blaine guy is, but I hear he’s sex on a stick and sings like a dream.”

Rachel: “You can’t do this with your brother.” Finn: “Not unless you live in Kentucky.”

Rachel: “Even a People’s Choice would have gotten you to third.”

Overall Grade: A. I was pleasantly surprised by this episode. It was sweet. Sometimes “Glee” goes a little too far in one direction or another and there is no balance to the episode… this episode was different. It had a central focus with a few small storylines that didn’t interfere with the overall plot and theme. I enjoyed it, and I am excited to see how the story evolves from here.

What did you think of “The First Time?” Hit the comments!

Next new episode of “Glee” airs Tuesday November 15^th at 8pm EST on FOX.

-Casey (@SecretAgentNerd)

Glee 3×04 “Pot O’ Gold”

Rory (Damian McGinty winnner of "The Glee Project") gets harassed by the Jocks on "Glee."

Why “Glee…” WHY?!

So there’s this adorable new kid named Rory… and I mean physically adorable, otherwise I found him extremely irritating and tiring. You want to make friends kid? How about not indulging in Brittany’s fantasy about you being a leprauchaun in order to get her “pot of gold.” Brittany thinks that only she can see Rory which really pisses Santana off. She tells him to back off or else she’ll tell his secret. Oh, and she wants a wish from him… she wants Santana to leave New Directions and come join Shelby’s glee club, which Rory gets her to do.

This whole time Finn is spying on Santana and Brittany in order to figure out if they are loyal to New Directions, which they’re not. Shocker! Of course Santana isn’t, are you kidding me? Have we not learned anything about her character since the beginning of the series? Anyway, since Rory is a foreign exchange student currently living at Brittany’s house, Finn has him spy on her as well. Rory is the one that reports that Brittany and Santana are leaving New Directions. Finn get Rory to join ND.

Quinn. I really don’t like you. At all. Quinn is on a mission to get her daughter Beth back from Shelby, and I mean seriously, who would give a kid to this girl? Really? Yes, an unwed teen who is probably flunking high school, has no means to support a child, and willingly gave up her daughter in the first place is going to get her back from a perfectly capable woman who is willing and able to take care of her. Ya, I don’t buy it. Quinn tries to sabotage Shelby by calling CPS and placing things all around Shelby’s house that would make her look like an unfit mother. Puck gets a conscience and removes them all. He even helps Shelby put a grumpy Beth to sleep. My only problem is the kiss between Shelby and Puck at the end… WTF! I understand heat of the moment, but Puck is the same age as Shelby’s other daughter… Rachel. HE IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE YOUR TEENAGE SON! EWW! NO!

Is Burt Hummel the best father ever? Probably. Burt is sick of Sue’s whole “down with the arts” campaign. He believes that the arts help promote children’s creativity and allow them to express themselves so he is now challenging her on a pro-art platform. Suck it Sue! But wait… Sue is definetly not out… she still wants to bring down the arts but now she’s going to run on a platform of “we need to help advance the well being and education” of special needs individuals. Touché Sue… Touché…

The music… what is Glee without the music? “Last Friday Night” was fun… and I love any and all things Darren Criss so I loved it. I thought it was awesome (although I did find it weird that Finn was up there singing and dancing after being pissy at Blaine for pretty much the entire episode.) “Canyman” was… well it was what it was. Santana, Brittany and Mercedes are no Cristina Aguilera, but it was… cute? I don’t know, but I do want those outfits. “It Ain’t Easy Being Green” and “Take Care of Yourself” were a no go for me… can Rory just stand there and look cute? Just for an episode? He doesn’t need to talk or do anything except stand there… alright? Done. “Waiting for a Girl Like You” was a little creepy to me… I want to believe that Puck was singing it to Beth (his daughter) but I was struggling… I just think the whole “you’re my daughters adopted parent but I think I’m falling in love you thing” is creepy… anyone else?

Quotes:

Kurt: “She could have a field day with this whole gay son thing.” Burt: “I’m proud of you, Kurt. Don’t care who knows it.”

Santana: “I want to talk about the thing that we never talk about.” Brittany: “That Sour Patch Kids are just Gummy Bears that have turned to drugs?”

Sue: “If this nation wants to impress their future Chinese overlords, we need to get our priorities straight.”

Will: “Sue’s pom-pom budget is $4,000/month!” Sue: “You can’t put a price on cheer, William.”

Brittany: “You cannot call your future president an idiot. It mean, and it’s bullying and I won’t accept it.”

Overall Grade: C-, and I think that’s being generous. I just wasn’t at all impressed with this episode. Rory popped out of nowhere, Quinn is being a total bitch and the whole Shelby/Puck thing felt wrong… so incredibly wrong. The only ONLY bright spot for me was when Burt stood up to Sue. Go Burt!

What did you thing of “Pot O’ Gold?” Hit the comments!

Next new episode of “Glee” airs November 8^th 8pm EST on FOX.

-Casey (@SecretAgentNerd)