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: 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: 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…