Today I just finished watching the very first episode of the Fox TV show called Glee. When the show first aired in May, I was a little skeptical of it. Normally I don’t watch a lot of TV, and when I do, I always watch shows that I have already seen before. But when all of my friends wouldn’t stop telling me about Glee, I decided to check it out.
I have to say that I was impressed. So far, I LOVE the music; but everything else about this show reminds me of High School Musical. The characters in Glee, however, are new and unique, which is something that, in my opinion, High School musical was lacking.
The story is all about a high school Spanish teacher (Mr. Schuester played by Matthew Morrison) who decides to go out on a limb and run the “Glee” club; a go-nowhere choir club that everyone in the school views as losers. It is a challenge, not only because of poor public opinion about the choir club, but Schuester has to overcome an OC (obsessive compulsive) wife (Terri Schuester played by Jessalyn Gilsig), and a school that is facing funding cutbacks.
Needless to say, there is not a lot of participation at all. But after a short time, Schuester cons a jock (Finn Hudson played by Cory Monteith) into joining Glee club. A beautiful transformation occurs when Finn saves the kid in the wheelchair (Artie Abrams played by Kevin McHale), also part of Glee club, from being beat up by the football team.
All in all, I really liked this first episode, but I’m hoping that this show gets a little better. If it weren’t for the great music rumored to be involved, I don’t think that it would be something that I would normally watch.
