great show bit cheesy at times but funny all the same lol. the teacher that plays the coach of cheerleaders makes me laugh all d time cause of the way she acts reminds me of people iv met or know. and also i dont know if it there voices or not but the song get you moving aswell so well worth looking at.

Glee bounces onto the screen as a mishmash of genres, each with a long and, to be honest, hackneyed history. A likable high-school teacher, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) hopes to escape a home life from hell by reinventing the school’s once award-winning glee club. Because all the money goes to the cheer-leading squad and all the glory to the football team, Will is left with no budget, a crew of misfits, and no place to rehearse. His principal would rather rent the school auditorium to Alcoholics Anonymous than let the glee club practice there.

The show’s most immediate ancestor is the hectic rah-rah of the “let’s put on a show” musical, and its TV offshoots like Fame. Then there’s the underdog subgenre, where losers of one kind or another battle adversity and prejudice in pursuit of their art, the hero (or, occasionally, heroine) winning a contest with raw talent and heart. Glee draws as well as from stories of high school’s lower castes, where freaks and geeks prove human too. The lessons are many: follow your passions, no matter who mocks you. Think for yourself. It’s okay to be poor if you do what you love.

The result of all this cliché-lifting should be a mess. Instead, it’s an exhilarating hour satirizing American socialization processes, with a wicked soundtrack. Creator and writer Ryan Murphy (formerly guru of nip/tuck and Popular, an obvious precursor to Glee), along with co-writers Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, works this alchemy through complex characters, acid dialogue, and sharp performances. The cast includes Broadway stars like Morrison and Lea Michele, who plays Rachel, the diva daughter of two devoted Dads, not to mention the glee club’s most talented singer, as well as TV and film veterans like Jane Lynch, as lean, mean, cheerleading coach Sue—clearly longing to deploy her handheld blender on something meatier than milk and protein powder. This mix proves effective: each player resists the temptation to parody, instead highlighting characters’ endearingly awkward efforts to navigate everyday life unharmed.

These kids and adults appear exactly as they would to someone who pretty much despises them, every quirk exaggerated and every weakness magnified. Rachel starts her daily MySpace post by snapping open the legs on her video camera tripod with the deadly energy of a battlefield sniper. Will’s wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) hopes to use his ardent desire for a child to push him into more lucrative employment as an accountant; she claims exhaustion from a job that keeps her on her feet “four hours a day, three days a week.” Emma (Jayma Mays), a fellow teacher with a crush on Will, dons plastic gloves to wipe down the lunch room table, then finds herself prostrated on a campus bench by bubblegum on her high-heeled pump. Quarterback Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith), whom Will bribes into the glee club with a wholly invented marijuana bust, marks his four-month anniversary with his girlfriend Quinn (Dianna Agron), even as she presides over the celibacy club. It’s all hyperbole, sharp caricatures of conventional aspirations for money, love, prestige, and fame.

It’s also very touching. Will’s own limits are laid out when he acclaims half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, banned at home because his wife is allergic to nuts, as the best sandwich he has ever eaten. The pudgy football coach (Patrick Gallagher) drives everywhere in a golf cart and leers at Emma, encouraged to persist by a politeness he is too obtuse to read as distaste. One of the cruelest cons perpetrated on the young is the promise that adolescence is merely a particularly unpleasant “phase.” Glee, with malicious joy and some sympathy, reveals the adult world no less uncertain and delusional.

By the end of this first episode, Glee recalls Friday Night Lights more strongly than it does its obvious comedic predecessors. Both series evoke the ambiance of a declining town on the far edge of the American dream: in Glee, it’s the rustbelt Midwest of Lima, Ohio, where the population has dropped by a third since the 1950s. Lack of hope pervades the student body; as Will remarks, “There’s no joy in these kids… That’s why they all have a MySpace page.” Only half of their high school graduates go to college, and very few ever leave the state to do so. “We’re all losers here,” Finn tells the football cronies who still think brute force and athletic skill guarantee success. More clear-eyed than teachers, the students in Glee are already facing an America in economic decline, with only evanescent celebrity as a strategy for escape.

Such daunting themes are hardly resolved in this “premiere event.” Though Finn exhibits delight as he crosses caste lines to play football and to sing, his claim that the team can’t win without him isn’t absolutely assured. We’re left wondering how long it will take Will to see through his wife’s machinations. Will the principal’s need for money kick the glee club out of school? Will Emma win Will or will Sue emasculate him so thoroughly that he leaves the school forever?

These open questions pose something of a problem. Fox and the production team have scheduled Glee’s premiere directly after the concluding segment of American Idol, a strategy to cross over an audience primed to appreciate popular music and the triumph of the unknown. No more episodes will appear, however, until this fall. The summer is a risky hiatus, even for well-established shows, especially now that the summer season nurtures its own crop of steady earners for both the networks and cable. We all have to wait to see how much of that Idol audience returns, just as we have to wait to see Murphy and crew can keep the satire popping.

''Glee'' (finally) was the first TV show, that I truely loved (well, ''Gossip girl'' is nice too)!
Full of possitive emotions.
It gave me someting...i can't really explain that, but it gave me joy and ... i finally had the courage to go to audition in our city theatre - and now - i'm a full time actress in it.
I ralised, that i CAN sing, i CAN dance and i CAn act pretty well. :))

It gave me inspiration. Plus - i could enjoy beautiful performance and singing. And if you're non-popular at your school - you should watch this! :)

I hardly recommend watching it!
Especially - for girls (and gay boys - well, not only, but mostly).

10/10 ! :)

-Annie-

As the awards stack up for this hit television series,it's more than ratings that make Glee special. The show mainly focuses the students and faculty of Mckinley High School. Using a blend of drama and comedic relief,we follow the ups and downs of club main characters, they almost always come back to their glee club, which can provide hope and acceptance as they deal with being at the bottom of the barrel in at Mckinley.Even with the great story lines and plots, the show is known for their show stopping musical numbers. From Gaga to Madonna, the cast proves that they can make any song their own, (which as spread to sold out concerts and best selling soundtracks from the series}. Overall, I would describe Glee as a show about hope. No matter what circumstance or challenges you face, with hard work and believing in yourself,you can acheive anything.

This show is very inspirational and they all have amazing voices. It is a very diverse T.V. show. They sing classic rock songs as well as new songs and they really show the emotion that the song is trying to express. There is a lot of drama and peer pressure that most shows do not have and centers on each person equally. This show deserves 5 stars for its excellent choreography and vocals and showing stuff that happen in every teenagers lives that most T.V. shows do not.

There are several aspects of this show that I love, but what I love most is the music. I was in high school from 84'-87' and it surprised me to see when I started watching this show that they were singing a lot of the songs of my era. Judging by the responses of other viewers it seems like they too are liking the music from back then and it is nice to see a fresh take on some of those songs of old. The storyline is also very nice and entertaining and modern so today's teens can identify with some of the dilemmas that the cast on this show have to deal with from week to week. This is a great show with a great cast and most of all great music!

Glee is now one of my all time favourites. All of them have stunning voices and are just amazing in my mind. At first, i didnt think i'd watch it while it was advertised and so the first 2 season just flew past my mind while they were showing on TV and it was only when i saw an episode while i was channel hopping, did i realise just how good it was. I have to give thanks to the moderators of this site for allow the upload of glee otherwise i would not have been able to watch all the episodes, thanks guys!

This episode was very well made, They show a much softer side of Sue Sylvester. For the people who really like the musical parts with the songs of this tv show, should definitely like this episode. A lot of different songs are sung by different people. One of Glee's better episodes.

Glee, oh how I love thee.

Glee, one of my favourite T.V shows. It manages to put you through the whole spectrum of emotion in every episode and leaves me so excitable by the end that I'm either crying with happiness or screaming for more at the screen.
Yes, it is cheesy. Yes it is about high school children. Yes it's almost sickeningly happy. But considering it's aimed at teenagers, I think it covers a vast variety of topics well. Things such as sexism, homophobia, teenage pregnancy without being depressing or sappy.

To put it this way. If you love musicals, or cheesy T.V or long for the happiness that previously has only been achieved by looking at cute animals on the internet, you'll like glee.

Obviously if you do decide to give it a go, watch it from series 1, and watch at least 3 episodes before you decide if you like it or not.

Got to love Glee, i love the fact they put a hairspray song in there show proper made me laugh. I totally hope everyone enjoys this episode as it will make you want to watch the rest. I recommend for everyone who loves musicals to watch this as it's something you's don't want to miss.

Really good i loved every minute of it. I can't believe how thick Britney can be good job she picked herself up and seen sense lol. Feel a bit that New Directions have split up hopefully they will reunite eventually. And how dare puckerman kiss Shelby lol. Nobody wants to miss this.

Santana was just dragged out of the closet. She didn't want people making a spectacle of her and they did it anyway. She didn't want Finn organizing anything for her because she still wasn't ready yet. He went against her wishes to cure his own conscience. Not cool. I'm tired of finn looking like a good boy when he didn't apologize and pushed her out of the closet even more. Not cool. I'm tired of the guys being the heroes and the girls looking stupid on this show.