Glee.
Are you watching? Fox has amped up so much hype for this show since airing the pilot back in May after the American Idol finale. I can't say I spent my summer anticipating its return but I was stoked to see it returning early on in the September series returns.
After last night's episode (the second to air this fall), I find myself wondering whether it's OK to laugh at some of the ridiculously offensive jokes or whether I should be donning my student affairs hat and saying wait, just a minute! That's not right! I will honestly admit I do both.
Ryan Murphy, the show's creator either has an issue with individuals with disabilities or sees individuals with disabilities as the easiest group to target. Each each week there is normally a horrific comment directed toward Arty, the Glee student confined to a wheelchair. Last week the comment was that he only counted as half a person because he was in a wheelchair and this week a choreographer told him he was fired for not trying hard enough at walking. Ouch!
But the show has some touching moments and I couldn't help but be moved last night when another Glee student, Kurt, came out to Mercedes. It was great.
Overall, the show is INCREDIBLY well-written, the cast is uber talented (both musically and dramatically), and I. love. it. Here's a clip from Mercedes singing a Jazmine Sullivan (not Jill Scott, thanks Cord) song last night. I thought she knocked it out of the park!
Friends who would LOVE this show and need to be watching it because I doubt you currently are: LB, Melissa, Mo.
After last night's episode (the second to air this fall), I find myself wondering whether it's OK to laugh at some of the ridiculously offensive jokes or whether I should be donning my student affairs hat and saying wait, just a minute! That's not right! I will honestly admit I do both.
Ryan Murphy, the show's creator either has an issue with individuals with disabilities or sees individuals with disabilities as the easiest group to target. Each each week there is normally a horrific comment directed toward Arty, the Glee student confined to a wheelchair. Last week the comment was that he only counted as half a person because he was in a wheelchair and this week a choreographer told him he was fired for not trying hard enough at walking. Ouch!
But the show has some touching moments and I couldn't help but be moved last night when another Glee student, Kurt, came out to Mercedes. It was great.
Overall, the show is INCREDIBLY well-written, the cast is uber talented (both musically and dramatically), and I. love. it. Here's a clip from Mercedes singing a Jazmine Sullivan (not Jill Scott, thanks Cord) song last night. I thought she knocked it out of the park!
Friends who would LOVE this show and need to be watching it because I doubt you currently are: LB, Melissa, Mo.
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