A few weeks back, I argued that Glee is at its best when it doesn’t really try to tell any specific story about these…

I’ve been watching a lot of Smash lately because I have to stay up late to make sure I’m awake to write up the network…

Last week, my friend and fellow critic Alyssa Rosenberg came down harshly on Glee, even more harshly than I did (or…

Stop me if I’ve used this metaphor before—and I think I have—but the problem with Glee is a problem of big and small,…

We all have our pop culture blind spots, but for me, the popular culture of the 1980s is a big ol’ black hole. I…

Glee is at its best when everything is executed so well that you don’t really stop to think about how none of it makes…

As soon as I finished watching “Big Brother,” it immediately started slipping out of my mind. Here it is, an hour or so…

When I was a freshman in college, one of my best friends tried to kill herself. I was the one who found her, found the…

“Heart” wasn’t as good of an episode as last season’s terrific “Silly Love Songs,” but it was pretty good for an…

Part of the problem with watching TV critically—particularly with watching a big hit show like Glee critically—is that…

I wasn’t the biggest fan of “The Power Of Madonna,” when compared to a lot of people, but even I’ll admit that episode…

Just why is Will Schuester a terrible character?

Every week in comments—or on Twitter—a few of you say roughly the same thing to me: Why do you keep covering this show…

Michael Chang Sr. did not understand what he had to do to get through to his son.

Way back in season one, I stated my theory that Glee was actually TV’s saddest show, not its happiest one, as…

There’s a crafty little trick that a TV show with wild tonal shifts can use: Take something that’s meant to be a joke,…

Glee has never terribly been a show that’s interested in process. It’s interested in results. Many shows would have…

Every time you watch any episode of television, you have to agree to go along with some of the stupid things that…

Glee’s greatest strength and its greatest weakness is that it has a lot of characters, and none of them are so…

Both the blessing and the curse for Glee when it comes to the fact that its storytelling can be… incoherent is the fact…