Hopefully this is the first of many. I have way too much free time and way too many opinions to not have started a blog by now.
The topic of the premier blog is about TV. (Odds are that is what the majority of them will be about.) But not TV in general. The topic is Glee. That wonderful Fox hour long dramady that suspends all disbelief and gives us week after week of endless musical fun.
Only half of the cast are recognizable from anything before this Jane Lynch is Sue Sylvester,
Jessalyn Gilsig plays Terri Schuester, and Jayma Mays appears as Emma Pillsbury, are the chief among them. Even the arguably star of the show Matthew Morrison only has 19 credits on IMDB.
While the show may be about the Glee Club Jane is the star of the show stealing every scene she is in with her tirades and condescension. She is the character you love to hate the power hungry arch nemesis who already has the power. She blackmails and intimidates to get her way and we love her for it.
Jessalyn however is not so enjoyable. The baby hungry wife of the Glee club coordinator she has become the new poster child for type casting and the type she is cast as is the scheming bitch. From Heroes to Imaginary Bitches on the internet to Glee she continuously plays an evil character and people who watch the show are ready for her to go.
The third in this trifecta of female stardom is Jayma Mays. Not a name most would recognise but she played a pretty significant role in Heroes season one (the only good season) and some guest shots on shows like How I Met Your Mother Ugly Betty and the big screens "Red Eye". She is the romantic rival of Jessalyn and despite the fact that she is inlove with a married man you root for her because she is just so darn sweet.
As for the rest of the cast you have the pregnant head of the celabacy club Quinn Fabray and her Football playing boyfriend, Finn Hudson who's SPOILER ALERT not the father of her child END SPOILER played by Dianna Agron and Cory Monteith
Resident Divas Mercedes Jones and Rachel Berry played by Amber Riley and Lea Michele. Rachel sets her sites on Finn in the first episode telling him that their team mates will expect them to become a couple since they are the stars of the program. Those that are ready to kick her to the curb along side Will's wife just note that she isn't this way intentionally. It's my belief that she is really wired to believe the things she says and the way she acts is normal.
And then there is Puck played by Mark Salling SPOILER the real father of Quinn's baby END SPOILER and Finn's best friend and team mate on the football team/glee club
Kurt Hummel played by Chris Colfer The resident gay kid and also a member of the football team and the Glee Club
Artie Abrahms played by Kevin McHale Other than the fact that he is in a wheel chair we know little about him. Last week featured the Glee Club storming out and Artie was carried out in his wheel chair by four of the jocks who recently joined the club.
Jenna Ushkowitz plays the stuttering Tina Choen Chang.
Among the other stars we have Iqbal Theba who plays the Principal who is always trying to cut costs and Patrick Gallagher who plays Ken Tanaka the football coach in love with Emma and is sort of marrying her.
My favorite of the cast (I'm not sure why since she has hardly any lines) is Heather Elizabeth Morris who plays Brittany.
The show has a long way to go and has a lot of plots being juggled for a show in its first season. Fox did give them 22 episodes to wrap up those plots so the show will be around for a full season. The most important part about watching the show is the fact that you need to suspend disbelief. Who cares that the football teams correagraphed routine to Beyonce's Single Ladies caused them to cross the line of scrimage and delay the game. Or that the hated wife became the schools nurse on because the Cheerleaders choach wished it to be so. This is a show where kids burst into song in the middle of the halls and it turns into a music video and nobody notices. It's a musical fokes. It's not supposed to be real it's supposed to be fun. And it is. For now.
Next weeks episode is titled Wheels. Check it out and watch some of the previous episodes on Huhu. The Greatest Invention Of The 21st century.
