For those of you who are not major glee fans, this is what's going on. Rachel Berry, our protagonist is about to open as "Fanny Bryce" in the musical "Funny Girl." Rachel recently loss her fiancé Finn; Although everyone wants her to start dating, she still can not accept the love of her life has passed away. Mercedes Jones is on the verge of making it big. She recently returned to the show and joined the whole gang back in NYC to soon become an R&B artist. Blaine Anderson and Kurt Hummel are both in school at NYADA and Blaine is having some self-conscious issues about his weight. He is concerned he is gaining the dreadful "freshman fifteen." Sam Evans, is Mercedes's boyfriend and he is aspiring to be a male model in the "Big Apple." Artie Abrams is a handicapped freshman that attends a small film school in Manhattan and is having a rough time adapting to the concrete jungle.
Last night, the episode consisted of love and sex, which most high school television shows are about now a days, right? Mercedes admitted to Sam that she was still a virgin and that she would not be ready to have sex until marriage. She sang a jazzy rendition of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." Sam, being a worried nineteen year old did not know how to feel about this. Of course, the writers had to cooperate to what the viewers want because would it even be a 21st century television show if they did not? Sam said he would wait for her because he "would do anything for the woman he loved."
Here's the part that viewers, including myself, may have taken offense to. Artie claimed to be having sex with two different girls and reveals he did not use a condom. He goes to get tested for an STD and the results come back positive for "Chlamydia." Throughout the remainder of the episode, the writers tried to make a sexually transmitted disease a joke. Their perspective was "Lets make it funny, because with proper treatment Chlamydia goes away." Well writer Ryan Murphy obviously did not take Human Growth and Development with Ms. Nelson because in her words "Extra cheese, not STD's."
Overall, I believed the episode was very weak and the song choices were not up to par.
I really like your posts about Glee. It's really visible in your writing that you're into what you're writing about and that's what makes it so interesting. I love the way that you write about the characters like they're your friends and I can totally relate, being a Glee fan myself. Keep up the good work!
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