I’d like to say sorry to anyone who was offended by both the show’s portrayal of Wade/Unique’s trans lifestyle and anything I had to say about it last week. I feel like we’re kind of in the same boat now, as the writers totally massacred what it’s like to grow up with an eating disorder. When you’re dealing with it, it’s extremely private and shameful, yet the show uses it to get Marley out of the room during Kitty’s number, then to get her and Ryder together. Never in a million years would Ryder catch her gagging herself in the bathroom with the stall door open. Since the show also has a history of making story lines magically disappear within 1-3 episodes (Hello, Quinn in a wheelchair, anyone?) we probably won’t see any more of Marley’s stint with bulimia. I don’t know whether to be disappointed over how unrealistic it is for her to get over it so quickly, or to be happy to see it gone so that they can’t make me more upset than I already am.
One contrived moment in this episode that actually worked out well was when Sue reserves the auditorium so that the glee club can’t rehearse for the musical. Using the tire shop fit nicely, though I really wanted them to call April Rhodes for help. Sadly, the only cougar in this episode was Cassie. I have nothing against older ladies gettin’ some, but I thought Brody would have a little more respect for himself. I get that Rachel gave him mixed signals by telling him it was over between her and Finn, then going to Lima for the musical, but ewwww! Just…ewwww. I never really liked Brody and Rachel is even less likeable and more annoying this season (her classic cry), so it’s no skin off my nose if they don’t get together. I predict it’ll get dragged out into a real love triangle, which means more Cassie (blech) and less Lima.
Speaking of Rachel crying, there’s so much thievery going on in this episode it’s disgusting, and it’s all in Cory Montieth’s dialogue. I’ll excuse the whole moose/muse thing because Suburgatory only used that line two weeks ago, and I understand both shows film their episodes months in advance. However, his monologue about Rachel’s four cries was definitely stolen from Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, who stole it from themselves first! If you haven’t seen the movie, Topher Grace tells Josh Duhamel about Kate Bosworth’s six smiles, which he uses to get into her pants, then Kate’s character surprises Topher’s at the end by telling him about his five smiles. Anyways, it’s adorable and they totally ripped it off! This is the kind of unoriginality I’ve grown to expect from Glee though.
As soon as I saw Marley in the catsuit in the final number, I started to wish they hadn’t used it in season one, but I really liked what they did with all the old couples. Well, most of the old couples, because they completely ignored Samcedes once again. They made such a huge deal over them last season, especially in ‘Yes/No,’ only to drop them now, leaving Mercedes with absolutely no story line. They could have completely left her out of the last two episodes and nobody would have cared. As much as I hate Diana Agron on the show and in real life, she made the right decision in not taking Ryan Murphy up on his ridiculous offer to let all of the original characters stay.
As for the music, I’m glad they went with all Grease songs. ‘Greased Lightning’ was adorable, and we actually got to hear from Sam for two seconds! While I hate when they break into song in the middle of dialogue, I loved the transition from rehearsal to performance, it was all very true to the musical. I can’t stand Kitty, but her rendition of ‘Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee’ further highlighted her character’s cattiness, even though they misused Marley’s bulimia to complete the scene. Another thing they could have left out was her continuation of the song. Though Melissa Benoist has a beautiful voice, I felt like they made light of a serious issue again by telling the audience that it’s so easy to stop any sort of self harm when a boy starts to like you. Moving on, Blaine’s ‘Beauty School Dropout’ was cute, as were all of Sugar’s facial expressions, though the audience on the show would never see them because she had her back turned away the entire time. My only complaint about ‘There are Worst Things I Could Do,’ other than Cassie and Brody together, is that Santana’s part was completely unimaginative. I know it wouldn’t be right to give her any choreography, but they could have at least set the stage to look like a drive-in like in the original performance.
What did you think of this week’s episode?
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I wonder where they're going with Marley and Ryder since this looks like mixing Fabrevans and Finchel in one thing, this season takes recycling storylines to a whole new level.
And tbh I wish this show would move on, they should learn that even thought is nice to keep the fanbase happy you can't sacrifice all the characters for it. There's not an acceptable reason for Santana, Mercedes or Mike to leave their responsabilities or whatever they were doing and come help them with a musical. Even Kurt and Rachel is kind of forced and they are regulars.
Suspension of disbelief is impossible on this show so I don't jump on the bandwagon with those critiques, it's pointless.
I am 100% not convinced with this eating disorder storyline.I agree with everything you wrote.Also
- Why didn't Marley understand that she still fit into her normal clothes just like always
- She could have weighted herself on a scale and see that she wasn't gaining weight
- No matter how insequire you are,who takes advise from someone who does nothing but insults you all day?
- Marley and the other girls went to a sleepover because of Kitty stating that she wants to be friends?If that were true then Kitty would have apologized.Yet everyone believed this and went on with it???Way to make teen girls look like a bunch of idiots.
- Recovering from an eating disorder doesn't happen by will power,nor it goes away by having a cute guy telling you you're pretty and then kissing you.
- She starved herself for a week and yet she believed that she gained weight?And didn't get suspicious when Kitty urged her to throw up?And besides,2 inches off immediately by puking?That is utterly impossible.
I felt like the fact that her mother putt them both on a diet also gave a message that yeah,it's a good idea to lose weight.You'll be happier when your skinny.It just sent a message that if your thin you're happier.And allthough I understand her mother doesn't want Marley to end up like her,what kind of a parrent tells their healthy teenage girl to start a diet?Especially since she mentioned that she had tried to contain her eating so the costume would fit.And saying that she didn't raise a quitter,referring to inability to fit into a costume.She basically could have just said "yeah,you should lose weight."
I thought it was a wonderful episode, and that is an unusual thing for me to say ever since the show lost its track back in season 2. Of coarse there were a few things that I could not agree with but overall I thought it was a very good episode!
First of all, I am so glad Finn has something useful to do this season, I am excited to see what he will come up with once they start preparing for sectionals. He definitively has the courage and the ability to find a way out of a situation, I loved the idea of the guys rehearsing in the car fixing place.... Especially I liked the part where he told the guys to do the number again cos yeah,MIT lacked energy and grease lightning is such an energy filed song...
About Marley's issues with weight, well yeah that was a very weird way to handle this situation because why did Marley automatically assume she is gaining weight? She is as thin as a stick... Also since Tina was doin all the fittings how did she not notice that the dress has been restitched like ten times.... So again, Glee took a very serious issue and forced it on us...of Marley had been struggling with this since she appeared on our screen then yes, I would feel for her, but now I just wanted to slap her on the head. Also knowing this issue will probably disappear in the next episode...yeah, I don't know. It was all just stupid... Why is Marley so slow in figuring out what Kitty is doing to her.
Everything else was awesome. The scenes from grease were great, and I especially loved how they reenacted the old couples singing "You are the one that I want" with Finchel, Britanna, Mike and Tina and Blaine and Kurt! It made me smile on the inside and outside! Especially because of how they brought in a scene from season 1 where terrified Finn was singing his first song with Rachel. It was so sweet!!!!!
I am currently handling so many tv couples break ups, it's really sad... (Thank god for Revenge's Emily and Aiden). So this is why I was so happy to see such a scene, and I am totally team Marley and Ryder ( how cute was his kiss!!!! ) and happy to hear Tina and Mike are maybe reuniting! I know this episode ended with Finchel parting for good, but it was done in such a grown up manner. I didn't expect them to get back together any time soon, and its good that now they have decided to kind of stop even talking to each other...they really need some time apart. I never saw that movie you talked about and the whole thing about crying was new to me....because I could honestly believe that after 2 years of dating Rachel, it's not hard to believe Finn would know what Rachel is feeling. I just hate the fact that it was about the shower dude.... Srsly, she was all about focusing on her career and now she is crying over a guy she really barely knows.... I just think of it as her mainly crying over the fact that Cassandra was so mean to her..but Rachel really needs to grow up from this.
I agree with most of the things you wrote however, leave it to gleee to make surprising twistes, cassie and broody kissing was completely ubsurb, but its things like this that make people want to continue to watch
Marley's eating disorder seemed a little unrealistic, but at the same time, it didn't feel like an eating disorder to begin with. I thought that, in the end, we'd find out that Kitty was shortening her clothes or something. But just because she ended up not throwing up in the Ryder scene, doesn't mean the disorder is gone. April Rhodes "magically" turned her life around in "The Rhodes Not Taken" at the end, then she was back in a few episodes just as screwed up but richer (I think she was a mogul's mistress or something like that). I loved the Grease scenes, they did a great job, and hearing Santana's voice made me happy. Most of the Finchel/Klaine scenes felt choppy to me. Like when they encountered each other and had their conversations one after another like a turn-based RPG. That was a little tacky. They should have interacted with each other outside of their lovers. Brody ending up with Cassie was a big surprise to me, but after it hit me, I remembered all those little moments where they could've hooked up and the fact that Cassie is one hot teacher (Puck and Shelby, anyone?... except not AS bad). Brody seems like a dog good at hiding his tail when Rachel is looking, but I like the idea of their relationship because it will change Rachel to be more sassy and realistic. That incident will definitely teach her to NOT be an open book for people like Cassie to read and shut down again. Honestly, a teacher like Cassie July, I would have NEVER let my personal life or secrets be known to her. I REALLY liked that Wade didn't get the part of Rizzo. Not because I don't like Wade, but because the underdog getting the solo he/she wanted is SO typical Glee. Characters need to LOSE. THey can't always WIN. This is a lesson these kids kind of learned when they lost Regionals in season 1and Nationals in season 2. Losing is where you learn. And Sue won.
I just wanted the whole thing to be them doing Grease, instead of all the rest of the Glee drama.