Glee Recap: Relationships Suck

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By Pollyanna | Tuesday, October 9, 2012 | 11:30 am | 19 Comments
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All right people, hang on to your seats because shit’s about to get real.  Things are so off balance that we aren’t even going to start with someone walking down the hall.

Say what?

Marly is in the cafeteria not doing a very good job of hiding her lunch tickets when Jake finds her.  Do they still do lunch tickets?  My kids are in elementary school and have a six digit number for their lunch money account. Couldn’t her mom just have the school credit her lunch account?  Anyway, Jake is so compassionate, telling her that it sucks to be poor.  I really hope that Jake doesn’t write greeting cards in his spare time, because that was a really lame.  Meanwhile, Brittany and Blaine are watching them, remembering about the fun of starting relationships. 

 In New York, which is the furthest thing from Glee club that we can find, Kurt is making breakfast.  Rachel comes in, complaining about being up late.  Kurt is obviously blind to tension because he makes a crack about needing ear plugs.  Rachel informs him that they didn’t do anything, just laid there. Finn comes in, Kurt makes an awkward exit.  I’m sure you have all been on pins and needles wondering why Finn is there.  Turns out that Finn shot himself in the leg while cleaning his gun (aptly named Rachel).  Rachel wants him to find his way in New York and live happily ever after.  How I long for the day that New York turns cruel and shits all over Rachel’s hopes and dreams.

 Kurt calls Blaine, but puts him on hold.  Kurt is upset because they never get to talk, but not enough to stay on the phone. Blaine is upset, which prompts our first song of the night.  Singing along with Blaine, Finn is watching Rachel in dance class.  They sing a moving rendition of ‘Barely Breathing’.  At the end of the song, Blaine texts someone named Eli about coming over.  Meanwhile, Kurt is trying to get Finn to wear a suit to go out in New York. Blaine shows up.  I’m so confused – what happened to the text?  Rachel is so happy because they are all together again, just like the good old days.  You know – when they used to hang out at the Max.

 At the bar, Rachel and Finn run in to Brody.  Finn seems to be the only one that got the memo about the fact that this should be awkward.  Brody wants them to sing a duet, but Finn suggests that he and Rachel sing a duet.  They don’t think this is a bad idea at all and sing ‘Give Your Heart a Break’.  It isn’t enough to shove their closeness in his face, but Finn is also having some flashbacks from the gunshot.  I’ve never heard of someone have PTSD from shooting themselves.  After Brody and Rachel are done, Blaine gets up to sing.  He sings an acoustic version of ‘Teenage Dream’ that is so depressing they should have passed out razor blades before the performance.  Cue the ugly breakups!

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19 Comments

  1. 1
    alicecarroll13
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    dear ryan ..what ever your last name is………..your show glee has lost alot of its underdogness…”yes,i just made up a word” .the show is getting boring..the music is starting to suck……the show used to be up bring…i used to sit down with a ben and jerry and enjoy the show…because the shows sucking there no ben and jerry and i should see a six pack within a few months…why not have eden wood guess star on the show and invite her mommy too..that would bring something to the show..i can picture eden standing on a table in the lunch room singing twist and shout with the glee people doing backup…..ha ha ha!!!

  2. 2
    hot cawfee
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    It surely has Alice–I miss my old GLEE–I miss Becky, most awesome Dad Bert Hummel, and Coach Bieste, Mercedes and Quinn. New girl Marly and her story is good–not being pushed enough. The graduates are gone–let them be gone. The trying to transition them in and out of the cast isnt working.

    I think you hit it Polly– Finn will take over Glee club–shades of Leroy filling in for Lydia on Fame.

  3. 3
    Jimbob Jones
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    AAAAAANNNNNNGGGGGGGGSSSSSSTTTTT!!!

    Damn, this show sucks now. It’s a chore to sit through.

    And whatever the hell happened to “This won’t be the type of show where people are in high school forever. They’ll move on.”

    Umm, yeah, but when do WE get to move on from THEM?

  4. 4
    Pari
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    I agree with you guys. As much as I loved the original cast, they need to graduate and move on. Maybe let them guest star on a homecoming special, but other than that they should go away.

    Also, they shouldn’t just reincarnate the old people. Kitty, Unique and Jake should be their own people. Not replacements of the originals.

  5. 5
    Honeybee
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 1:25 pm

    Season One, was awesome. Season Two and Three started off shakey but finnished well enough. This season is terrible, just completely awful. Ryan Murphy has lost any and all direction that this show once had. It’s dark and depressing and has nothing to do with any sort of Glee Club. What he should have done was every season introduce one or two new characters and then as a few move on, there is revolving door of characters. You know like in school.

    Rachel and Kurt should have gotten a spin-off. Schuster and Emma are soooooo boring. I just don’t care anymore. I have stick in for what like 4 episodes this season…and it just sucks. Thank god Netflix has new episodes of shows that I am behind on, so I can give up on this piece of crap. Thanks for nothing Ryan Murphy.

  6. 6
    juddfan
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    I feel for the task they have at hand. I’m glad they all broke up. I’m glad Shue is leaving, good riddance!!! They really should have skipped all the new people in Glee, except Jake and Marly . . . and focus on Tina and whoever is left.

    Brittney surprised me in that last number . . . .as usual, on my third attempt to get thru this episode, I was in the other room, and when I heard Brit’s line, I thought she sounded great (it was a first) I had to go look and see who it was!

    Maybe it’s me, but Blaine and Finn doing anything together is a chore to get through. I kinda like Barely Breathing, but yuk, the musical equivalent of wood. Didn’t like Don’t Speak either, and I love that song!
    Santana sounded good on her song, but I didn’t know it, and I liked the last one enough. I thought Blaine performed Teenage Dream well, but again, kind of hard on my ears . . .

    I think this episode is helping them cut the cords with some of the past and old story lines, so hang in there people, it ain’t easy to do this type of transition.

    More Unique singing, please . . .

    And the point of Finn returning and the whole blah blah, what was it all for? You don’t call me in 4 months, you can kiss my ass . . . and even with her, “that is how a man loves” which my disfunction understands, it is not enough reason to not move on to Brody pronto!

    Perhaps this is a trial run at possibly doing a spin off next season.

    I’m still hoping Karofsky ends up in NY, oh please, do one thing for me, Ryan!!!

    Anyone who watched Glee Project, do you think Ali was considered for the Kitty character? It seemed they wanted her for a bitch role . . .

  7. 7
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    I just wish Brittana stuck together and I hate how their relationship seemed to be on the back burner. Okay, maybe it isn’t as special as say “Finchel” or “Klaine” but it was one of the better acted ones on the show.

  8. 8
    itchy itchy
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    I don’t blame the actors, since most of them must know that Glee is the highlight of their careers. How many of the cast do you truly expect to hear from five years from now?

    But they can’t seriously expect the Blaine character to carry this show. He has all the charisma of a King’s Family singer. They need to find another Lea Michele …. and that’s a pretty tall order.

  9. 9
    Parisi LaRoe Parisi LaRoe
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    @Itchy-I totally agree with you. I am glad someone else thinks that way.

  10. 10
    juddfan
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    I actually think Marley is pretty good, and Jake is pretty easy on the eyes as well!

  11. 11
    KartofflMuter
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    Itchy-Blaine-star? headlining the show-wait,seriously? No. Stop you’re killing me. When does the shark swim through? And Grease? If mom is the Lunch lady-why does she need to give tickets? And with the economy the way it is, most streets have 2-3 houses for sale on them,I don’t think snooty kids are too realistic. I live in a snooty neighborhood -it’s a Country Club-but the kids didn’t act like that. First of all,they all went to private school after grade school. Only a few families couldn’t afford it. (us). It might be more now,lol.And the 28 year old high school students are going to have to start touching up their grey hairs pretty soon.
    As for Mr. Shue and Emma. I understand why Emma doesn’t want to go with Shue. “Hey c’mon.It’ll be fun.?”
    Imported booty just for him? In what universe is that fun for her? She’s young.She’s had opressive parents and she’s OCD. They are finally engaged. She loves her job. It’s not a hobby. She’d like to feel she’s needed and not that she’s easily replaceable. If she takes a Sabbatical,it should be for something she really wants to do. Instead,he wants her to go to D.C. and sit in a hotel room all day long waiting for him to come home so maybe they can have dinner and talk about-what? His triumphs and what she watched on TV? I’ve been the take-a-long-wife. A week in D.C.-is no fun. A week in Tokyo-fun. A week in Nice-is Nice.A week in Siberia-turn it down. A week at the Del Coronado-Fun. It all depends where the business trip is. Three months? in D.C-alone without a friend -have you ever driven in that nightmare? We always ended up at the tomb of the unknown soldier but not on purpose. I hope she says no and sticks to it. The last time I said yes to a 3 month business trip I ended up in Delhi. It still beats D.C. Just say no to Siberia.

  12. 12
    PinkTop
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 11:35 pm

    Lunch Lady Spawn should have listened to Unique about Puck 2.0. The bad boy thing is sooo played out. I really don’t see the appeal. He has anger management issues, no relationship or life skills, no money, oh and he’ll play head games with you. Oooh that’s soooo sexy, sign me up – NOT. No woman with an ounce of self respect is attracted to the bad boy stereotype. Please stop perpetuating this bullshit Ryan Murphy! Puck 1.0 overstayed well past his expiry date, and you have to terrorize us with a new one (who’s acting is just as terrible as the original).

    Yes to a Karofsky/Kurt reunion. I so badly want Kurt, as he’s nursing his breakup wounds, to walk into some hardcore bear bar in the West Village and run into Karofsky…

  13. 13
    itchy itchy
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 12:26 am

    This season really does have some serious problems. All of the new characters are carbon copies of the old characters, just not nearly as charismatic/pretty. And more drippy than likeable. Although some of them actually look like they’re of high-school age, which can’t be said for most of the first crew, so that’s progress.

    And Lea Michelle easily carries the NYC part as a spinoff show , but there’s no one to replace her at the high school part. They seem to be focusing on the Blaine character — I don’t see any other replacement anyway. The fact is, the Rachel character was always the most interesting character on the show (thanks in no small part to Lea Michelle).

    I get that they want to try the same mousy-to-sexy arc with this Marly girl, but it’s not going to happen. The actress just doesn’t have the same charisma.

    Meanwhile, I’m enjoying Murphy’s fake earnestness over the whole “we need a christian character” thing — the whole Left Behind/ christian as evil bitch thing is perfect.

    And yeah, obviously Finn’s going to stick around as the Glee coach. Fortunately, he looks like a 30-year-old who’s already completed his college education and earned his teaching credentials.

  14. 14
    blueberryPancake
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 5:37 am

    Blaine’s Sing/Cry teenage dream reminded me of this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ9vcNJ_Ros&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    It is PATHETIC that they are keeping Finn back in Lima-He looks redic.

    I am SO about a Kurt/Karofsky reunion….I am betting it’s never gonna happen, RM knows that is what fans would want, why on earth would he do that! ?

  15. 15
    juddfan
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 10:06 am

    Aw, come on blueberry!!! I never thought Blaine and Kurt would break up, and they did, and it’s because Blaine cheated . . . it’s a perfect set up!!! Bring back Max Adler, Ryan!!!!

    Pinktop, so glad you’re on board with Karofsky too, but isn’t he kind of a bad boy too!?

    I have no self respect, which is why I always go for the bad boy types . . . hee . . .

  16. 16
    PinkTop
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    judd – I understand the appeal of the bad boy, especially to someone young and inexperienced, but at a certain point it gets old and tired. I’m in my 30s now so that point happened a long-ass time ago. Karofsky is (was?) kind of a bad boy (which was caused by him having to pretend to be someone he isn’t in the oppressive world of Lima high school. He simply didn’t have Kurt’s strength). If I remember correctly he saw the error of his ways and tried to make amends with Kurt, so he made progress. I’m not attracted to Karofsky, but I find him to be an interesting character who’s journey I would like to see further develop. The actor who plays him is phenomenal and the Kurt/Karofsky onscreen chemistry is explosive (unlike Klaine!). I’m curious how that relationship would play out, even if it’s only as friends.

    I want Kurt to let loose and have some fun now that he is single, hook up with a bunch of hot dudes, experiment. I don’t want him getting into another relationship right away. A Karofsky romance further down the line would be poetic, but they’ll probably have him predictably end up with Blaine (snore).

    I like Kurt and I like Blaine, but I’m sooo over Klaine and couldn’t be happier that they broke up. Of course no couple on that show is more annoying than Finchel! I adore Rachel, but can’t stand Finn & double couldn’t stand Finchel. Don’t even get me started on my Finn hatred. A lot of it has already been said here, and I’ve written enough for now.

  17. 17
    melange
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    I don’t get why anyone wants a Kurt/Karofsky hookup. Even though Karofsky has magically changed for the better, how can we expect Kurt to forget years of his bullying and violence? It would be like those women on old soap operas marrying their rapists. Just requires too much suspension of disbelief.

  18. 18
    juddfan
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    @melange, sometimes hate is the closest thing to love . . .

    I just really like Max Adler, and yes, I think he’s adorable as well, so it’s only my selfishness that makes me want this.

    Karofsky, in ways, reminds me of Burt . . . and don’t we always end up married to our mother or father!?

    Pinktop, I’m so very glad you are over the bad-boy types!!! I’ve given up, and I’m older too . . . my taste seems to be something outside of my control in this area. Believe me, I’ve tried.

    I will say Jake seems like a jerk to me, so I am safe from that one . . . sigh . . .

  19. 19
    PinkTop
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    melange – For me it was more about a K/K reunion, and seeing the evolution and resurrection of the character, then necessarily a hookup. You are right though. My glee memory is a little hazy, and I forget the details of just how bad the bullying got. I would have to re-watch, but I’m barely hanging on by a thread with this show as it is. For example, I just now remembered that Karofsky threatened to kill Kurt. I does require a lot of suspension of disbelief to watch glee in the first place, but having them date might be a tall order. Any Karofsky romance I conceived would be further down the line, an evolved and self-actualized Karofsky that’s freed himself of his demons & paid off the karmic debt for his wrongdoings, not bully Karofsky that tormented Kurt @McKinley. No worries though, I get it. I am still 100% down for a reunion.

    judd – hang in there! There’s always hope. At least you’re trying. lol.

    Jake certainly is easy on the eyes, but that’s it. Puck’s goofiness was his redeeming quality. Jake doesn’t seem to have one yet.

    If Rachel doesn’t hook up with Brody I am done. Done. It probably won’t work out, but sex with a hot Broadway dancer would put the final nail in the coffin of Finchel. Did I mention I can’t stand Finchel?

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