The Glee-kly Recap: With “On My Way” Glee gets REAL!

Welcome back Gleeks! The winter finale has arrived and it’s being touted as a shocking, game changer! We all know there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that New Directions are going to lose at Regionals so what could the shocker be? If you read last week’s Glee-kly Recap, you’ll know what my theory is but I’ve been wrong oh-so many times before. If you haven’t read it:

(Here’s What You Missed, on GLEE!)

Let’s dive in, shall we?

The Glee-kly Recap: Gleeks Get a “Heart” On for Valentine’s Day!

Welcome back Gleeks! Some of you may have noticed that I missed out on recapping the last episode of Glee: “The Spanish Teacher. Forgive me Pop Gods for I have sinned. I didn’t get a post up for that episode for the following reasons:

• An unfortunate head cold had me incapacitated and heavily medicated throughout most of the week, which contributed to a lack of energy and drive. Add to that a local transit strike and a 45 minute to an hour walk both to and from work each day. No fun!
• The tragic death of legendary diva Whitney Houston on 2/11/2012 truly affected and upset me. (See Post)
• The episode (outside of the immaculate beauty of Ricky Martin) was pretty CRAPPY and uninspiring. The only thing that happened of significance is that Will Schuster is no longer McKinley High’s spanish teacher and he’s now going to be teaching History class. (P.S. I will probably go back and write a recap during an upcoming, devastatingly long hiatus but we’ll get to that in about 3400 words. I don’t play around.)

Luckily this week we have LOTS to talk about! So let’s get to it!

The Glee-kly Recap: Everybody throws away their V-Card in “The First Time”

Another Tuesday is upon us and The Pop Gods have blessed us with an all new GLEE tonight on FOX. Being that I have been a shameless Gleek since its pilot episode, I couldn’t miss it!

Episode 5, entitled “The First Time” is already infamous in the media as the show’s cast revealed several weeks ago via the ever-hungry hype machine that the third season’s fifth episode would introduce a number of game-changing plot elements:

• New Directions over-achievers Rachel & Kurt (and as it turns out; Blaine) were to lose their virginity. This is bound to piss off tonnes of right-wing “family” groups even if it’s done completely tastefully.
• We were to see the return of the Dalton Academy Warblers, and with them; Sebastian (a new villain and hurdle for the freshly-happy Kurt and Blaine relationship) whom we shall hence forth refer to as the “Triflin’ Ho”.
• The return of David Karofsky. Fans were left wondering after last season’s “Prom Queen” what had become of the tortured (and totally cute) football bully after he ran from the gymnasium in fear of accepting Kurt as the queen to his Prom King in front of the whole school. After Max Adler tweeted that Karofsky would return, anticipation built quickly about the resolution or at least contination of his story arc.
• It’s finally time for “West Side Story”. The school musical is here and four of the episodes’ five musical numbers are from the show. (“Tonight Tonight”, “America”, “A Boy like That” and “One Hand, One Heart”). They are rounded out by the Warblers performing Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”.

Find out what I thought of “The First Time” as well as lots of Glee-cap action, after the break…