Glee-Rumours

Is Will Schuester leaving the Glee club for Broadway? Are Sam and Quinn having an affair? And when will Santana come out of the closet?

These were the rumours swirling around on this week’s Glee, inspired by the iconic Fleetwood Mac album of the same name.

Unfortunately this week’s show wasn’t a classic – creatively it was all over the place with a central storyline that was badly developed and unresolved. Still a few standout moments shone through amidst the nonsense.

So let’s get to it – and first up let’s deal with the negatives. Yep, Sue Sylvester was back again and more cartoonish than ever. Seriously what was the point of having Sue dressed up as David Bowie and Ann Coulter in a coffee shop scene with Terri – a sight gag that wasn’t funny and didn’t make any sense whatsoever. I’m afraid I’m beginning to think that maybe it should be Sue who should be killed off in the upcoming ‘Funeral’ episode (though my money’s on Tina or Lauren at this point). The character is totally adrift.

Terri and Sue were conspiring to destroy the Glee club once again by bringing back Will’s old flame April and having the two collaborate on tunes for her ‘Broadway’ show – a taste of the spotlight that might cause Will to leave McKinley High for good. Except the plan didn’t work and was never going to go anywhere since it was a half hearted plotline that only existed to bring back April.

Look I love Kristin Chenoweth (and am very excited for her upcoming ABC show Good Christian Bitches) but each time she appears on Glee she has less and less to do. This week Kristin got to sing Dreams, which was decent but not earth shattering, and then basically stood around and made drunk gags. What a waste of her talents. Did the writers spend all their time on Gwyneth Paltrow’s episodes instead?

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Speaking of wasted talents, I’m also a huge fan of Brittany but her one liners are growing increasingly weak – as well as hard to hear. (Quick sidebar – why do so many of the Glee cast – Brittany, Lauren, Quinn – speak in mumbles). Brittany was pushing Santana to come out of the closet while Santana wanted Brittany to break up with Artie and be with her. It all felt a bit forced to me to be honest. Perhaps I’d care more if Artie wasn’t such a whining, unappealing character.

Meanwhile we had to endure yet another round of the increasingly tiresome Rachel, Quinn and Finn love triangle that most of us gave up caring about in Season 1. This week Rachel and Finn went on a stakeout to a motel thinking Sam and Quinn were hooking up – but of course the reality wasn’t what they assumed. Sam’s family was going broke and his entire family were living in a cheap motel and had sold off most of their possessions.

When Rachel and Finn confronted Sam with the truth the resultant scene was the best of the night. Finally Sam had a decent storyline – and one that really resonated with our times. For me, Glee is at its best when it captures the zeitgeist and seeing a tearful Sam cramped up in a small motel room was better than a 100 lame Sue Sylvester schemes. Plus how touching was it when Rachel and Finn bought back the guitar Sam had hocked to a pawnshop to raise money.

And speaking of music – did the show’s big Fleetwood Mac experiment work? Sort off… I definitely enjoyed the cast’s rousing versions of Go Your Own Way and Don’t Stop – but was I the only one reaching for the fast forward button on Artie’s dreary cover of Never Going Back Again? I like the idea that Glee is introducing younger audiences to some classic 70’s music but maybe it would have been a good idea to swap out some of the show’s lesser known songs in favor of bigger hits like Little Lies (which thematically would have been a good choice).

So that’s my take – but what did you think? Was Rumours a vintage Glee episode to you – or the time filler it felt like to me? What did you make of Sam’s motel room scene? And is it finally time to cut Sue Sylvester loose from the show… start weighing in everyone!