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Suddenly everything makes sense. Alexis murdered Beckett's Mom.

Am I the only one disappointed that this episode didn't involve Alexis in a huge way? I had kinda got my hopes up, given that introducing her in the intern role in the first half seemed like a set up for something big in this part. Then again, I guess she might still be interning for the rest of the season. Still,…

I get that, and I'm definitely not so blinded as to suggest that scene was a glorious shining example of criticising the systematic failings of the system that the show exists within and blah blah blah blah. I have no doubt a big chunk of it was about the "Grr! Religion! Grr! Gays!" insanityfest that has taken up so…

I guess I'm an optimist. I definitely get the "what are you gonna do?" view. I'd like to at least think the Figgins scene was a sort of a meta-explanation for why they can't show this kind of thing on a regular basis. Doesn't make it right (or even justified, because it took a looooong time for this), but I think it's…

Keeping my fingers crossed on this one. If the Glee Project was anything to judge by, Joe's Christianity is gonna pretty much be his defining characteristic. It won't exactly help the display of other faiths, but it might at least open up some discussion about them. Then again, considering how often Glee veers into…

True, but it never hurts to occasionally raise these points. Hatred doesn't always come from truly deep seated things. Some of it is definitely just unexamined faith. I know this because of my own dealings with passionate Christians (who can be just as unexamined as a particularly frustrating branch of…

I think there's a very good reason to retread stale ground with Santana. Two, actually. The first is 'I Kissed A Girl', a thoroughly terrible episode that decided to make Santana's story all about Finn. The second is the mini-arc Santana has had in the past few episodes. In Michael, she had the passing line about how…

Glee went A-, D+, B+, A-, F at the start of season 2, if that counts.

I just want Schue to start making puns based on his name. "Regionals, kids! Schue for the stars!" "Aw, there's a stray cat in the choir room! Get out of here, cat! Schue!" (Actually, with that last one, I kinda want an episode where Brittany brings Lord Tubbington to school and we have 40 minutes of Sabrina The…

He's been teaching them from a textbook, most likely. You can't seriously ignore the fact that any American High School Subject will be catalogued pretty thoroughly in a slightly out of date textbook. Even fluent Schuester in S1 just requires a textbook and an accent.
Unless they mentioned this and I missed it.

Which can be given a pass in the dance studio. Not in the staged version, where an audience would be expected to suspend disbelief and assume all involved were desperate to sleep with her.

Also, screw whether the dancers are stereotypes or not. If it's a staged version of the show, it's operating in a space where an audience would suspend disbelief (and yeah, it's at its worst when its the staged version. It's a serious misstep given that the entire show is about staging a Marilyn musical. It's been…

Cool assumption about whether I've watched it or not, bro! I know the act of rape does not occur, but that moment where she puts on that "independent woman" smile and walks out is false empowerment at its worst. The fact that she didn't tell anyone that the director tried to pressure her into sex in exchange for a…

How was he testing her? The promo at the end of the online version pretty much makes it clear that he slept with the other singer.

No, I watched it, and that's where my issues come from. I generally give trailers enough leeway to turn a cruise ship around.

and then she leaves the apartment! but the promo hints that the other singer did sleep with him, so therefore we know who to root for!

Call me when Smash addresses how sexist it actually is to base a musical number around passing a woman around a group of leering men as a sexual object. Or when it addresses the 'screw me if you want the part' attempted rape storyline without making it a joke or using it to establish McPhee as a 'good girl' and not a…

He also kicked her out for being pregnant then had an affair… To be honest, not the best advice giver I can think of.

@avclub-42763705844bf5e2af4abd6c898f8dcb:disqus , I see where you're coming from but I just can't agree. The 'staged' versions that we saw seemed like some of the worst impulses of filmed musicals: a sudden switch to a version of the song that has no tie to the world it's occuring in. The songs themselves did seem…