Gleeful Wednesdays

Hi Delicious-

After a little bit of an unforeseen break, I'm back!  Unfortunately I can't write about SYTYCD yet since J and I only had time to watch the first 8 couples perform before he had to go to his gig...so tomorrow on that one.

I can't believe that I haven't yet even touched on my frenzies of delight over Glee!  It's been a long time since I've gotten so giddy over a new show!  Maybe the last time was Pushing Daisies but I think Glee is even better.  The show is not serious about itself and doesn't want you to be either.  It's campy good fun that takes every stereotype of a high school student and exaggerates it a little bit more.  Then throws in some amazing singing of songs you love in routines that make you laugh as much as they make you want to join them (a football team warming up to Single Ladies=brilliant). It has characters that you hate but can't help loving (who doesn't want to spar just a little with Sue Sylvester?) and characters you love but kinda have to wonder about (why exactly is Will so blind to his evil wife?) and gives them the kind of dialogue that you quote the next day ("Are you questioning my badassness?  Have you seen my guns?"  In fact there are so many to chose from, I could blog about nothing but that and it seems that the blogosphere already has!) 

But the essence of what I love about Glee is that it never really is the same show twice, it always has heart and it is always fun!  One week it's a little telenovela with the wife going after Quinn for her baby and the next it's running a gay coming out storyline.  One week it's the showdown between Sue and Will and the next it's the kids hyped up on cold medicine. 

My only two wishes are that it doesn't go the way of cult-ish, ridiculously good shows I've loved and lost too soon:  the aforementioned Pushing Daisies and the I-still-miss Arrested Development.  Given that the folks at Fox have found a cash cow with all the marketing and iTunes this show generates, I hope this one is around for the long haul.  My other wish is that a new episode was on this week!!!  But since I've saved every epidsode, I guess I'll just have to go watch the unexpected fun mash up of Halo/Walking on Sunshine again.