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Episode 4.14: “I Do”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This was a surprisingly great episode, which started on a sad note and then proceeded to slowly let the atmosphere fill with tentative happiness. What with the wedding, there are...
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Episode 4.15: “Girls (and Boys) On Film”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This may be one of the top ten most plotless episodes that Glee has ever done. Don’t get me wrong, it was a hell of a lot of fun, at least for the first few acts, but what really...
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Episode 4.16: “Feud”
(Spoilers lurk below.) I watched Nashville right before I watched this. That was an error. It was like eating a steak prepared by a master chef right before eating poorly cooked Kraft macaroni. In case...
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Episode 4.17: “Guilty Pleasures”
(Spoilers lurk below.) When I first became a fan of Glee, I described it as a guilty pleasure. Around the middle of season two, when the series really began to pick up, I dropped that descriptor...
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Episode 4.18: “Shooting Star”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Is it possible for two outstanding acts to save an entire episode? Is it possible for one very offensive and wrong-headed writing decision to tank it? And what can you say about...
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Episode 4.19: “Sweet Dreams”
(Spoilers lurk below.) After a run of four episodes that ranged from bad to unremarkable to undefinable, and with the specter of two more seasons looming before us, it’s good to be reminded of why I...
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Episode 4.20: “Lights Out”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This episode features a blackout whose length is only matched by how symbolic it is. The blackout is actually fairly unique in Glee terms in that, while it provides an obvious...
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Episode 4.21: “Wonder-ful”
(Spoilers lurk below.) I love Stevie Wonder, so I certainly have no complaints about making him the subject of a tribute episode. His music has a unique sound that makes it feel alive, and his songs so...
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Episode 4.22: “All or Nothing”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Where do I even start with this? Season four as a whole could be described as unfocussed at best and unremarkable at worst, at least until the season finale came along to drag...
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Glee season four overview; or, dissociative identit-glee disorder
(Spoilers lurk below.) Season three was very ambitious in terms of story and number of characters, and, while season four was no less ambitious, it was so in a different way. The stories thinned to a...
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