I recently began watching
Glee after reading several positive
articles. I was intrigued by the possibility of a show which could channel the genre-bending of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the high school social critique of
Freaks and Geeks. I made it to episode 3 before I had to stop. The show certainly has a lot going for it: some well executed melodrama, talented performers, and well executed musical numbers (even though they aren't really my thing, its easy to see that, for what they are, they're extremely well done).
Glee, though, is not without its faults, and it isn't the hammy acting or the forced heavy handed messages that turned me off. It's the way that the show fails to really respect the fringes of society in the way that numerous other TV shows and movies have in the past.
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