Television: Glee – Go On With Ya Bad Self
Personally, I just don’t like “Glee”. And it’s not because show choir’s a bit too much for me – I was in show choir in high school. The show’s just never really connected with me, perhaps because the over-the-top show choir aesthetic bleeds into the characters until I feel like I’m being shouted at every second of the show.
But it took until yesterday, when scanning Glee victory speeches from the GLAAD Media Awards, for me to realize that it absolutely doesn’t matter if I enjoy watching the show.
The first reason is because my father (ex-Air Force, Southern Baptist raised) loves the show. My father doesn’t really like anything except Nova, so I have to give a hearty “hell yeah” to any scripted musically-driven show featuring openly gay characters and actors that manages to weasel its way into my dad’s heart.
Furthermore, though the “now” me doesn’t much care for the show, I can absolutely see losing my shit over it when I was in middle school. It’s the type of unapologetically pro-gay (and really, pro-person) programming I always complain there should be more of.
Co-creator Ryan Murphy’s acceptance speech really hit home for me – “We have so much love for our own Chris Colfer [a gay actor playing a gay high schooler], who at age 19 when the media came calling… was true to who he is instead of waiting to announce it at age 40 when it doesn’t matter.”
So the Grinch inside me doesn’t want to sit and watch a feel-good parade every week, and that’s fine. But no matter what, no matter how much I may bemoan its dearth of taste or intelligence, I am a huge Glee fan.
- Topher Burns
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I dislike the show too, but you make a good point. Terrible entertainment, but good for the gays.
I like the show not so much for the overtly lip synched performances by the cast or the crappy character development but largely for Chris Colfer’s Character Kurt Hummel. What interests me about Kurt is he is a more realistic image of queer male teens today (apart from the fashion. What queer teen has a dad who is a mechanic yet dresses so fantastically?). His comming out experience seemed more realistic than most other teen drama-comedies in the past. It was difficult without being too emotional. It was not a coming out teen saga which, in the past, was either dedicated one whole episode dedicated to the experience of one character or a multi-episode arch.
It will be interesting in season two if Chris nabs himself a boyfriend or at least a love interest. Everyone has pretty much partnered up or has had sex with each other, except for Kurt. If Fox is to portray an accurate life of high school today, they should, please, give Kurt a sexual-romantic experience similar to the other characters. To have him asexual seems more of slap in the face than anything else.
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