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  • Glee: season 1, episode 10

    "Ballad"

    November 19, 2009 - 01:11a.m.

    For all of the Glee commentary running rampant on the Internet, there's been surprisingly little analysis of the show as an actual musical. Sure, there's lots of writing about how exciting the show's musical sequences are or ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 9

    "Wheels"

    November 12, 2009 - 02:11a.m.

    I've watched "Wheels" twice now, and I think I like it. Indeed, look at that grade! The thing that's making me say I "think" I like it is the uncomfortable nature of the tone, which at least has ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 8

    "Mash-Up"

    October 22, 2009 - 01:10a.m.

    There are times when I suspect that the reasons I like Glee are singularly unlike most of the reasons shared by the, sigh, Gleeks. (And can we come up with a new word for Glee fans? Gleeberts, perhaps?) The new ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 7

    "Throwdown"

    October 15, 2009 - 12:10a.m.

    Seven weeks in, Glee continues its long-running experiment in whether emotionally true scenes can be built from emotionally false foundations. The answer, at least at this point in time, seems to be a resounding, “Not always!” and I suspect a ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 6

    "Vitamin D"

    October 8, 2009 - 12:10a.m.

    Oh, Glee. Sometimes I just don’t know what to do with you. You’ll do an episode like this one, where the story is an absolute, absolute mess on just about every level, yet you’ll somehow make it ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 5

    "The Rhodes Not Taken"

    October 1, 2009 - 01:10a.m.

    Here in its fifth episode, Glee has finally completed its transition to its third incarnation as a show. With most series, I’d be completely terrified by that, but since the show has randomly become the series I thought it ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 4

    "Preggers"

    September 23, 2009 - 09:09p.m.

    The two biggest complaints leveled against Glee so far by the folks who either hate it or are generally agnostic about its pleasures are that its storytelling is messy (something I could agree with, especially in last week’s episode ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 3

    "Acafellas"

    September 17, 2009 - 12:09a.m.

    When Fox sent out screeners for future episodes of Glee, it left off this third episode, “Acafellas,” which is usually a bad sign. All shows have a few rough episodes in the early going, as they figure out just what ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 2

    "Showmance"

    September 9, 2009 - 09:09p.m.

    It’s been nearly four months since the debut of Glee back in May, and in that time, I’ve started to doubt myself, convinced that I didn’t like the show as much as I thought I did, no ...

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  • Glee: season 1, episode 1

    "Pilot"

    May 19, 2009 - 01:05p.m.

    Glee premieres tonight on Fox at 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT. Or whenever Idol gets over.

    The best television shows construct highly specific, highly detailed worlds they exist in. This is the crucial difference between, say, Seinfeld ...

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