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Captain& #39;s Log; 4/10/2020 - 2:43 AM
I am a twenty three year old homosexual man and I have not watched a single episode of Glee (2009-2015). I feel like experience with this historic piece of culture must be recorded. Mother grant me strength. Mute this thread if needed.
I am a twenty three year old homosexual man and I have not watched a single episode of Glee (2009-2015). I feel like experience with this historic piece of culture must be recorded. Mother grant me strength. Mute this thread if needed.
I know I lived through this era of gay representation but it doesn& #39;t make it any less wild to see a little twink remove his designer jacket so he may be put in a dumpster. In 2009.
LIKE A BUG TRAPPED IN AMBER...
I did not expect to be astral projecting out of my body almost immediately.
Nevermind this is representation for MySpace musical theater girls I& #39;m glad their legacy is being preserved.
Katie Homophobia is the only character who& #39;s kind of endearing because she& #39;s so wildly overacted that she& #39;s just kinda entrancing to watch.
You are SELLING the fantasy of being a high school sophomore who thinks this moment right now is the most important thing that has ever happened.
I have watched other Ryan Murphy joints before so I know the lens that he filters queerness through to talk to a mainstream audience but to think that this is where we were in 2009 is... both, incredible and depressing simultaneously.
Also, specifically when it comes to gaze of the directing? Really didn& #39;t need an excessively long scene of an adult man wandering into a locker room shower to watch a jock boy singing naked in the shower. Weird tone there. Reminding me why I will never write about teenagers.
Just my evergreen rule of "I understand we want our teen media to be edgy and adult but if you are not equipped to deal with the realities of the messages you are sending to these audiences, write about college students."
Weirdly this accurately depicts the ways that musical theater programs interact with the concept of ~*diversity*~ and how they fast track the same people they always did for the same hollow reasons.
Also I am so sorry to this black girl who was told,
"You will sing the one part of an Aretha song that every suburban mom loves, and also, compare yourself to Beyonce. These are your only lines in the first episode."
"You will sing the one part of an Aretha song that every suburban mom loves, and also, compare yourself to Beyonce. These are your only lines in the first episode."
OKAY FIRST MUSICAL NUMBER BABY!
THIS EDITING IS ALREADY SO STRESSFUL I AM GETTING KIND OF MOTION SICK.
THIS EDITING IS ALREADY SO STRESSFUL I AM GETTING KIND OF MOTION SICK.
I understand how pilot episode works I understand that this insane tone and pacing and sudden moments of delirious spectacle are like, okay, sure, but all of my sources tell me that this is a rollercoaster that goes mostly down.
ADULT WOMAN DRAWING A SHARPIE HEART AROUND AN EPIC DIVORCE MAN IN HER YEARBOOK IS OFFICIALLY THE FUNNIEST THING I& #39;VE SEEN THIS WEEK.
Lea Michele is truly always acting at an 11 for no reason and she& #39;s the single best character because of it.
I like that this show briefly tipped their hat towards the fact that for some reason, the straight, white, able-bodied characters get all spotlight and focus and then promptly continued to only use its full cast for when it needs to show them being abused. Okay. That& #39;s fun.
This Journey number really highlights everything I feel like will make me utterly delirious about this show. The camerawork literally uses the characters around the marketable straight couple as props. It borders on parody.
I feel like I& #39;m going to say "Where in the world did Mercedes and Tina go in this scene?" about a hundred and thirty more times while watching this show.
