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Friday
Oct022009

Glee Television Show (Fox)

  • UPDATE: Season 1 ended June 8, 2010 with episode 22
  • UPDATE: Kristen Chenoweth returns in episode 16!
  • UPDATE: Live performance by Glee cast at bottom. Show returns April 13, 2010
  • UPDATE: Removed the “Single Ladies” clip because Fox is idiotic, and has issued a take-down.
  • UPDATE: Added the recent video clip of the Glee football team doing “Single Ladies”
  • UPDATE: Added Bootie SF’s Its My Life Confessions Pt. II A+D Bootie Edit

This new Fox show about a Glee club at a high school has capitalized on the popularity of American Idol, and premiered a few months ago, before the Fall premiere season. The critics love it apparently, and I do too. Here is the show’s blurb:

From Ryan Murphy, the creator of “Nip/Tuck,” comes Glee, a new comedy for the aspiring underdog in all of us.

The series follows an optimistic teacher, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), who — against all odds and a malicious cheerleading coach — attempts to save McKinley High’s Glee Club from obscurity, while helping a group of aspiring underdogs realize their true star potential.

Episodes one through five are available now on Hulu, and episode five “The Rhodes Not Taken” scores a significant win in casting Kristin Chenoweth. She’s a very real star of the musical stage, and has branched out to television. I think it’s quite a compliment to the show that she accepted this “guest star” part. She would “love to come back and do more”, as she says in the embedded interview below. She’s quite a talented actress and comedian in addition to her undeniable musical gifts.

Insider tip: this and another reviewer are certain that the character Kristin plays in Glee is an homage to Jerri Blank, the character created by Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy.

Kristin Chenoweth on Glee - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

 

The Fox site now has a few full episodes available to watch on-demand (streaming). Don’t bother looking for episodes on the Fox site, unless you want to install a “special player” on your computer.

I usually don’t post geographically limited or content subject to removal, but what starts on network TV will eventually make its way around the world, to DVD rental, cable TV and your local TV stations. Apologies to readers outside the U.S. — I’ve embedded Hulu’s Glee, episode 22 below.

 

“The cast of Glee performed this morning at the White House Easter Egg Roll. Watch their final number (with a few audio issues)”

Yes there are a few audio issues! Regardless, this is actually a very good sign, because I promise you they are not using “auto-tune” here. The song doesn’t matter. The audio issues don’t matter. What does matter is that the cast is performing live, each one singing better than Miley Cyrus ever will. If you can’t stay on pitch, or are sloppy, you can not sing in an ensemble. I did not expect them to sound this good live, Glee being a television show (and 2 audio cds) with access to the studio producer’s bag of tricks.

Audio “issues” like this happen frequently with live events, especially when microphones, amplification and poor acoustics are in play.

 

Glee Cast Its My Life Confessions Pt. II A+D Bootie Edit

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