'Glee': Now with Drug-Rape (Or Rape-Rape?) Plots!
I have never, ever seen this television program called "Glee," because I don't watch any program set in a high school. (I had to not really watch "Vampire Diaries" for a couple episodes when recently we were reminded that these 27-year-olds were actually supposed to be high school students!) But apparently "Glee"-related stuff went sort of off the rails last night? According to brave TV watcher Halle Kiefer, things got a little weird and rapey: "Sue Sylvester is obviously the best part of the show. Schuester is a whiner, Rachel be crazy, the football player is like, 'I am very old to be playing a high school student!' Sue gets the best lines and we love her because she is just so, so hilarious, the pitch-perfect quality of which lets us mitigate the fact that she is perpetually trying to destroy everyone else. And now she is a rapist. A rapist who not only drugged and took advantage of a coworker, but is now currently BLACKMAILING HIM OVER IT. LOLZ! Uh oh, how did this puke get everywhere? It's in my eyes! O WAIT, NO, THAT'S JUST GLEE." And to think that everyone at Columbia sat in front of the Jumbotron and watched it together.
All sounds very plausible, who honestly hasn't been there?
When Sue took off the covers, she was fully dressed in one of her track suits. I was left with the impression that while she did drug Principal Figgins, she did not actually date-rape him, she just wanted him to think she did.
Oh, phew, I was afraid the victim was going to be the sallow cutesy teacher, who would have just cracked into a thousand pieces.
You are correct.
Or not even "think that she did"–just know that she had potential blackmail photos.
I'm operating under the hypothesis that it's difficult to rape an unconscious man, but I'm not planning on testing it.
Sue's not going to do more than she has to for blackmail material. She didn't even take off the tracksuit for the photos, she had no need to actually sex the principal.
Rina is totally right. Sylvester obviously didn't date rape the principal.
Also, this sentence from Kiefer is particularly ugly and inartful, if not just wrong: "Sue gets the best lines and we love her because she is just so, so hilarious, the pitch-perfect quality of which lets us mitigate the fact that she is perpetually trying to destroy everyone else."
"[W]hich lets us mitigate the fact…"? SHUDDER
You know there's other reasons for not liking Glee: the kids have strident, belty Broadway voices; they hit all the stereotypes (gay kid, black kid, wheelchair kid); Puck's the only cute one…
The Puck?
Also the music itself is overproduced to within an inch of just being computer-generated voices. Agh.
You have to admit the Vogue video was faboo!
I invented Sue Sylvester at Danceteria in '82.
Well, considering this show comes from the creator of Nip/Tuck, it was only a matter of time. I breathlessly anticipate a lobster hand baby/little person cuckholding.
Glee is a terrible nightmare show! Everyone on it is a goddamn idiot and I refuse to participate!
Phew, glad I'm not alone in my Glee-hating. In fact, we've got the makings of a backlash right here…
What does recreating Madonna's ode to gay fashionistaism have to do with date rape? Everything apparently.
The not-quite date rape went over the line? Wait until Schuester starts banging Mercedes while Kurt films it.
Also, the Glee soundtracks are Kidz Bop for young adults and I am so tired of my friends putting them on when we are hanging out that I'll probably never watch the actual show.
Choire, did you really just plagiarize this article?
(http://mustanghalle.tumblr.com/post/520034140/on-what-just-happened-on-glee-aka-infinite-barf)
Do you mean the article he linked to?
Links to, quotes with real-live quotation marks, and name-checks the author of?
i must have become misedumicated about the meaning of 'plagiarize'.
I'm filing this post along with that initial sympathetic take on Eric Cantor's press conference about the phoney assault on his office in a folder called "The Awl Goes Wrong".
Well if it helps, that post was clearly ultra sarcastic. This one isn't though. Glee sucks.
I don't know, was that initial Cantor post sarcastic? The last few lines strongly suggest that it wasn't intended to be sarcastic — and I find it almost impossible to read these lines as sarcastic:
"Some might be tempted to see this as a remarkably transparent attempt by Cantor to distance the Republican party from recent disgraceful behavior and to portray Democrats as whiny pussies who are wetting their pants over a few minor death threats and incidents of vandalism in hopes that they might further their agenda, but I think that's a little too cynical. Eric Cantor knows exactly who most vociferously supports The Party of No, and he knows exactly what they're capable of. I think he's genuinely concerned for the safety of his friends across the aisle, and this is how he's trying to help."
At the time, I asked Balk if his initial take on Cantor's press conference was a joke (i.e., was Balk being sarcastic when giving Cantor the benefit of the doubt). I don't think Balk responded.