Tonight’s episode of Glee on Fox at 9p is called The Break-Up and I am warning you now to have a box of tissues ready because you are going to be crying.
Now that Finn has shown up at Rachel’s doorstep we find out what happened to him after he left her. Since they have been apart, they have both changed a lot and that is putting a strain on their relationship even though they want to make it work. The long distance relationship is also affecting Blaine and Kurt’s feelings towards each other. Blaine is so worried that they are drifting apart, he shows up in NY to see his lover. Even though they are close to each other in proximity, you can feel how far apart they have become as he sings a slowed down version of Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream in a piano bar. Side note it is his best performance to date.
But it isn’t only our NY couples that are having problems, cupid is tearing things apart at McKinley too. There is another couple in this mix that you won’t see coming and it is the hardest one to watch tonight. I won’t tell you who it is, but I will tell you it will really break your heart.
Not only is the acting going to break you up tonight, but their musical performance will leave you in tears. Even though the episode is a gut-wrenching one, it is one of the best ones in the show’s history.
Here is the list of songs, and you will want to own all of them when the episode is over:
– Taylor Swift’s Mine
– Demi Lovato’s Give Your Heart a Break
– Coldplay’s The Scientist
– Duncan Sheik’s Barely Breathing
– Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream
– No Doubt’s Don’t Speak
Glee is back for its fourth season tonight at 9p and it graduates to a whole new level of goodness. I have to admit I had grown to the point that I loved to hate Glee, but the season premiere made me love to love the show again.
The show starts off with Rachel in NYADA taking dance classes from Kate Hudson and she is no longer the star. Her character is getting knocked down a peg and because of that we get a New more likable Rachel. She is basically a little fish in a big sea and she is barely able to swim. She will make one friend and Brody (Dean Geyer) will have you motoring.
There is no Finn sighting tonight and we find out that Kurt did not get into the school with his BFF. So he is back home and walking around McKinely High like he still goes there while he waits to start community college.
Now back to McKinely High, Tina is finally breaking out and that is a very good thing. Artie is just there, Blaine is Blaine and Brittany is still Brittany without her Santana. On that note the only Glee graduates we see tonight are Rachel and Kurt, the rest are no where to be found. Sue Sylvester is also barely there, but in one scene we get to meet her new baby that she brings to work.
And talking about babies, there are a bunch of additions to the cast this year! Season 3 sensation Alex Newell returns as Unique and he has transferred to McKinley. Puck might be gone, but his half-brother Jake is trying to join the Glee Club. Also new to the club is Marley (Melissa Benoist) and she will blow you away. If you thought Lea Michele could sing, wait until hear their cross-country duet for Billy Joel’s New York State of Mind.
On the song front, I am praying that the show finally makes Call Me Maybe go away like all the other kitchy songs they have done in the past like Forget You, I’m Sexy and I Know It, and Friday to name a few. Kate Hudson sings a mashup of Lady Gaga’s Americano and J-Lo’s Dance Again. They end the episode with Adele’s Chasing Pavements. There is one big number that comes before it and it is the rare one where the original is so much better. Blaine sings Imagine Dragon’s It’s Time to Kurt and it just doesn’t work.
Could be because while the NYADA cast got new choreographers, McKinley did not. They so desperately need new moves because they have been boring me since season 1.
Now on that note, tonight’s season premiere is as good as the series one. The show is so tuned down, that it is fun again. It feels more like Fame the series than it does Glee and that is a very good thing. It is real and not cheesy. It is enjoyable again! My theory is that is because Ryan Murphy is so busy with American Horror Story and The New Normal, that he doesn’t have time to make Glee over the top. So if that means keeping TNN on NBC for a full season, so be it. I would rather have Glee like this than Ryan Murphized.
So if you gave up on the show, its time to come back. It’s what was, and not what it has become.
Oh and Kate Hudson has never looked or acted better than she does on Glee tonight. She was born for this role more than any of her others. She will wow you like hasn’t done since Almost Famous. If you need a reason to tune, then she is it.
Fox has released Kate Hudson’s first song on Glee and I hope you can see from it that she was born to play this role. This is seriously her best role since Almost Famous and it’s also her best acting and the prettiest she has looked since then. She will wow you and so will Glee that has definitely graduated to a whole new level of greatness. The show has toned down so much, you will once again love to love it and not love to hate it. So mark your calendars because the show will be back to entertain you on September 13th at 9p with a New York State of Mind.
Chord Overstreet Tweeted the above picture and said, “My 80’s hairband album cover!!! Titled ‘Halls of McKinley'” I don’t know if it is as much of an album cover as much as a hairdon’t poster. What do you think of the ponytail?
The first preview for season 4 of Glee is out and I wonder if you can consider a dumb blonde racist! Funny how those nine words coming out of Brittany’s mouth have me excited for the new season. They shouldn’t, but they do.
I think this proves that I have watched one too many episodes of Tosh.O and it is starting to warp me.
