Glee Has Lost Its Glow

I am one of the few who still straggles and struggles with this series as it limps along to its final conclusion. This attached blog post from the Daily Caller by Jonathan Bronitsky sums up many of the points I feel. He is a political strategist and looks at the history of the show from a polarized perspective. As the show became more of a beacon for misfits, it also began to alienate much of its original core by pushing its social agenda. Ryan Murphy has never been a moderate by any means. But what once began as bullying and ostracizing, later gained momentum with teen-age pregnancy, lesbian cat fights, revolving doors of sexuality, and anti Christian-dogma. While I certainly would never fault anyone for their creative outlets, one also has to remember not to cut off the hand that is feeding you. The Normal Heart on HBO has a much different demographic than ABC family audiences. So it was only a matter of time until most had left the room. Sadly - because I think the show raises a lot of great questions that teens should be able to discuss.

Glee and the Balkanization of the Left 

However - my personal disappointment in the show is that at times, it lost its focus and didn't stay true to its own inevitable course. As with any show involving teens, there is a Peter Pan syndrome. We all grow up and lives should move forward. However, here we are on Season 6 and the same people are trying to continue the crusade in the same classroom. It was hard enough to stomach going into Season 2 when not a single character graduated. Convenient enough. But then after 4 years, military recruitment, children and multiple romances - the show was still highlighting the same characters who should have moved on! Even the Glee Project was a genius idea to cultivate a new crop of very earning talent each year. But instead of trusting that new blood to propel the show into new territories, they constantly found ridiculous ways to write dispose them into the votex; Joe, Sugar, Blake, Damian.... At times the show can be downright cheeky with its tone of irreverence they give to themselves about a lack of congruity. But many of these choices are downright maniacal and lose any sense of credibility.

Yes you can say it is stupidly abstract by breaking into song and "how real is that?" But the original intentions were heartfelt and inspired where they are now desperate in spite of being great music. I will likely watch to the end, but the real fire ended at least a year back to be honest. I think as soon as American Horror Story took off, the classrooms were left unsupervised!