The Glee-kly Recap: 5 Episodes Until “Goodbye” and We’re a little “Choke”d Up!

Hola Gleeks!

Another week is upon us and I come to the realization today that there are only 5 episodes left until the end of the season, including tonight’s all new episode “Choke”. The previews have let us know that this week we will meet Puck’s father so we may get a rare Puck-centric story. I’ve also peeked at the tracklisting and checked out one of the First Listen Friday recordings and someone will be doing one of my very favorite songs by the Church of Pop’s Lady of Broken Hearts: Kelly Clarkson. Needless to say, I am stoked.

In case you didn’t catch last week’s Whitney Houston tribute… (Here’s what you missed, on GLEE!)

Let’s get on with it, then?

The Glee-kly Recap: It’s an “Extraordinary Merry Christmas” but WHERE is Sugar Motta? (also My Word Count Drops SIgnificantly…)

When we last left off on Glee, we pulled a Tabula Rasa (Clean Slate) and un-did pretty much everything that’s happened in Season 3 thus far. The gang are all back together (after that large group hug) and it’s the Christmas episode so obviously we’re not about to have any major plot points thrown in! This should be a nice one-off storyline kind of episode.

As last week’s recap clocked in at over 3600 words (my longest ever), I’ve realized that I have a problem with being long-winded. I will put extra effort into making this one a bit more “Coles Notes” as a friend suggested rather than writing a piece longer than the original script!

Here goes nothing…

The Glee-kly Recap: Everything As-It-Was! Well, almost everything…

When we last left off, New Directions was left reeling when their long-time M.V.P. Rachel Berry was suspended from school and disqualified from performing at Sectionals after she tried to fix the Senior Class Presidential vote in favor of her best gay: Kurt Hummel. As a result, it seems that their rivals: The TroubleTones think they have a Sectionals win in the bag… but New Directions have always been the underdogs and they’re not giving up just yet…

Read on for my recap, thoughts and opinions about this week’s episode: “Hold On To Sixteen”. I say it every week and I know it’s obvious, but there are many spoilers ahead…

The Glee-kly Recap: It’s Ladies’ Night, Gleeks! (oh yeah, Election Day too!)

It’s been only two weeks since the last new episode of Glee aired, but to this Gleek it feels like a lifetime. How about you?

Tonight, Glee returned on FOX to the delight of Gleeks everywhere who were left devastated by the events that took place in the amazing but intense final five minutes of Season 3′s sixth episode: “Mash Off”. If you don’t recall, our favorite still-in-the-closet, tough-as-nails, Cheerios Captain: Santana was faced with being an unfortunate casualty of a political slur campaign which is about to result in her being outed on a television spot to her entire hometown. To add insult to injury, she’s hardly come to terms with being a lesbian herself, let alone admitted it to her family. Her inner conflict and anger are all directed at a Mr. Finn Hudson – who called her out on her repressed sexuality in the hallway at school and unfortunately someone overheard and started this whole mess resulting in one hell of a slap in the face at last episode’s conclusion.

On top of furthering Santana’s story arc, this episode also promises to bring two of this season’s main storylines to a head. It’s a double election day! We will see the race for McKinley High’s Senior Class President and the Congressional Race come to a close. Who will win? How will the losers take it? It’s a nail-biter, folks. A NAIL-BITER!!!

An early synopsis of the episode also states that the Puck/Quinn/Shelby storyline becomes more complicated and that there’s some sort of “shocking” event that will complicate New Directions’ chances to compete at Sectionals. Read on for my reactions, opinions and general musings about Glee’s latest episode: “I Kissed A Girl”.

(As always, and I’m sure you all realize this, there are many many spoilers after the break. You’ve been warned.)

The Glee-kly Recap – “Pot O’ Gold”

Harry Shum, Jr. As "Mike Chang"

So, though this is my first Glee-related post, I will admit that I am a rather devout Gleek. While I know there are lots of folks out there who do a weekly Glee-cap, I’ve decided that as I intend this blog to be all encompassing when it comes to Popular Culture (i.e. music, movies, books, art, television, video games, etc.) that I will probably do some reaction posts about my favorite shows!

This week’s all-new Glee came on the heels of an early season three-week hiatus that had most of us Gleeks feeling rather down in the dumps. After the complete amazing-ness that was the last episode, “Asian F”, we were all left foaming at the mouth’s for more Mike F**king Chang (P.S. Did anyone else suddenly feel a little bit in LOVE with Harry Shum, Jr. after “Cool”?)

But anyway, that was then and this is now and clearly, if you watched “Pot O’ Gold” you know that the glory that was episode three has not quite lent itself to episode four. It’s a little bit surprising, really. This episode had a lot of things going for it…

• Directed by Adam Shankman – Director of the fabulous movie musical adaptation “Hairspray” and previous, much-hyped Season 2 episode: “The Rocky Horror Glee Show” which received a slight mention from Santana tonight (“Well I did get to be the lips in Rocky Horror!”)
• The premiere of ‘The Glee Project” winner: Damian McGinty as Rory, a foreigh (Irish) exchange student staying with Brittany, who believes he’s a leprechaun.
• A list of songs that sounds, in theory, like a lot of fun. These include: Katy Perry’s summer hit “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”, Christina Aguilera’s “Candyman”, Foreigner’s “Waiting For A Girl Like You” and most oddly, Kermit The Frog’s “Being Green”.

Unfortunately, where the last two episodes shined, “Pot O’ Gold” felt rather flat. Read on if you don’t mind SPOILERS. Be warned…