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It’s hard to remember now, but there was something wonderfully unhinged about the pilot episode of Glee, Ryan Murphy’s hit Fox sitcom about the show choir at a run-down Ohio high school.
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It → ’ → school
By the end of its first season, Glee was already morphing into a treacle-drenched pop-musical dramedy.
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Glee → morph → dramedy
But when it started out, it was far less feel-good and far spikier.
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it → start → ?
Much like high school itself, the show was filled with weirdly inappropriate jokes and unhinged characters.
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show → fill → jokes
With the news last week that there’s a Glee reboot in the works—green-lit by Disney+ and Hulu, written by the original showrunners, and featuring some of the original stars—the creators have a chance to recover Glee’s original offbeat charm.
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creators → ’ → charm
I remember exactly the moment from the first episode, back in 2009, when I realized what a bizarre piece of work Glee was intended to be.
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Glee → remember → work
The show’s protagonist is the talented but overbearing Rachel Berry, played by Lea Michele.
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protagonist → play → Michele
It would be cruel to say that Michele is typecast, but she certainly brought her own obnoxious, try-hard energy to the role.
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she → say → role
Already well known to Broadway nerds (myself included) as a star of the runaway hit musical Spring Awakening, Michele was launched to bona fide national celebrity status by her blindingly earnest solos in Glee.
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Michele → know → Glee
But it wasn’t her singing that pulled me up short in the pilot.
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that → pull → pilot
It was the scene in which Rachel reports the school’s former choir director, Sandy Ryerson, for groping boys in class.
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Rachel → report → class
We’ve already seen Sandy, played by Stephen Tobolowsky in a pink-on-pink button-up and cardigan combo, running his hand sensuously down the chest of an intensely uncomfortable soloist.
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Sandy → see → soloist
But that’s not really why Rachel shows up at the principal’s office with mascara running down her cheeks to tattle.
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mascara → ’ → cheeks
In truth, she feels she’s been cheated out of a lead performance that belonged to her.
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that → feel → her
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