(Warning: this Glee season preview contains spoilers. Glee gurus beware.)
Glee premiered its much-anticipated third season as Gleeks across the nation tuned in on September 20th for what turned out to be….. a lackluster first episode.
Though the curtains opened with us feeling nostalgic from the wild, curly hair and nasally voice of McKinley High’s geeky reporter, the episode went on for an hour of the same old television show.
The only things that would catch your attention were Quinn Fabray’s cotton-candy hair and the final number performed by the Glee Club with the new addition of Blaine Anderson.
Fortunately, the second episode partially made up for the blandness in the first.
Shelby Corcoran, made a dramatic-as-ever return to McKinley High to be the coach of the second Glee Club, comprised of the one and only, self-claimed talent, Sugar Motta. The return of Shelby also signified the return of mother-daughter tensions with Rachel and the idea that Quinn and Puck’s baby is very well within reach.
This episode had many more impressive numbers that measure up to the usual musical standards of Glee, as different characters are auditioning for a school musical.
As respectable as it is for Ryan Murphy (in all his genius) to take a risk and showcase the more minor characters, we, the Gleeks of the world, will have to be the judge of whether or not it will be worth it.
