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Glee is a new (2 shows so far) comedy on Fox. It's about an earnest, well-meaning but utterly clueless and ineffective high school Spanish teacher who has just taken over the Glee Club. His glory days were in this very high school, and he clearly wants to relive them.
Loser.
Worse, his wife is a liar, a compulsive spender, a wastrel, a manipulator, and an egomaniac with few if any redeeming virtues.
The pretty red-headed English teacher who has a crush on him (which is unacknowledged but requited) has an obsessive-compulsive disorder involving dirt-phobia.
She is being courted by the loathsome gym teacher/football coach.
The coach's star player has been blackmailed into singing in the Glee Club, although it appears that he likes it more than he likes football. He's quite talented, but has been poorly educated. Possibly this is actual stupidity, or perhaps just raging hormones. Or stupidity: he joined the Celibacy Club in order to get intimate with the president, who is the head cheerleader.
The cheerleaders' coach is a caricature of iron-fisted queen bitchdom; her sense of entitlement and outrageous demands are only now being reigned in, slightly, by the penny-pinching and cowardly Indian-stereotype principal.
And I haven't mentioned the other members of the Glee Club: Ms. Female Lead, who has been prepared all her life to parlay her actual talent into divadom, but hasn't quite managed it; the gay fashionista, the kid in the wheelchair who is in with the A/V Club, the Jazz Club, and probably the theatre folks; and the African-American girl with the voice of Aretha Franklin and an attitude to match.
Everyone acts like a hormone-crazed teenager, especially the adults. The singing, however, is lots of fun.
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Loser.
Worse, his wife is a liar, a compulsive spender, a wastrel, a manipulator, and an egomaniac with few if any redeeming virtues.
The pretty red-headed English teacher who has a crush on him (which is unacknowledged but requited) has an obsessive-compulsive disorder involving dirt-phobia.
She is being courted by the loathsome gym teacher/football coach.
The coach's star player has been blackmailed into singing in the Glee Club, although it appears that he likes it more than he likes football. He's quite talented, but has been poorly educated. Possibly this is actual stupidity, or perhaps just raging hormones. Or stupidity: he joined the Celibacy Club in order to get intimate with the president, who is the head cheerleader.
The cheerleaders' coach is a caricature of iron-fisted queen bitchdom; her sense of entitlement and outrageous demands are only now being reigned in, slightly, by the penny-pinching and cowardly Indian-stereotype principal.
And I haven't mentioned the other members of the Glee Club: Ms. Female Lead, who has been prepared all her life to parlay her actual talent into divadom, but hasn't quite managed it; the gay fashionista, the kid in the wheelchair who is in with the A/V Club, the Jazz Club, and probably the theatre folks; and the African-American girl with the voice of Aretha Franklin and an attitude to match.
Everyone acts like a hormone-crazed teenager, especially the adults. The singing, however, is lots of fun.
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