Well if there’s anything I like better than riding my bike off a cliff, it’s an hour-long season finale allegedly focused on the impending high school graduation of a mixed-gender crowd that somehow manages to be all about BOYS. Oh wait, I’m sorry — MEN! Once, they were boys, and now they are men. How did they become men? By supporting each other. Because that’s what men do. Yay men!
Anyhow, this week’s episode didn’t knock my socks off. However, it didn’t inspire me to strip down to my socks and run drunkenly through a glass door, either. It was, all-in-all, “okay.” To be honest I think this show has worn me out to the point where I’ve been unable to make any meaningful commentary on it for some time now, and I apologize. I’m doing my best, I swear.
We open in the Hallowed Hallways of McKinley High, where the Glee Club OG (“Original,” not “Olive Garden,” my former employer) can be heard performing “Sit Down (You’re Rocking the Boat),” a medley which serves to subsume Mr. Schuster’s fuzzy head into brief nostailgic hallucinations, like this one, from back when Kurt still had that unfortunate haircut and Tina still had lines:
were we ever so virginal?
Alas, the children are no longer children, are they Mr. Schuster?
were we ever so sexually experienced?
After glumly intoning that there’s nothing left to do or prepare for, Schuster scrawls “GOODBYE” on the whiteboard and assigns his students to prepare tear-jerking songs for each other to celebrate the end of Season Three — the underclassmen must prepare a “goodbye song” for the seniors and vice versa.
it would've been funnier if he'd written "goodbye, you stupid bitches!" on the whiteboard
Mercedes: “Part of me wants to lock these doors and stay in here with everyone forever.”
Brittany: “We could use the wastebasket as a toilet, and then we could eat Joe for the food, since she’s been here the shortest so we know her the least.”
Quinn: [to Will] “I really hope you’re about to rap.”
No, worse — he’s going acoustic on a stool with “Forever Young” and it’s fine, maybe even good, but we don’t really give a shit, ’cause it’s Mr. Schuster.
it's so easy to say goodbye to yesterday
We then cut to that ol’ familiar Hallowed Hall of McKinley High, where Kurt’s monologuing about his personal development for those of us unconvinced that any of these children have played out actual character arcs.
Kurt: “When I first got to McKinley, I was afraid to make eye contact. I didn’t talk about my politics, I didn’t share what was in my heart, I — oh, let’s just call the cadillac pink and be done with it — I was in the closet. Most days, I was also in the dumpster.”
kurt gives himself a facial, circa season one
Kurt: “But McKinley has made me a stronger, more socially conscious fashion-forward person. and perhaps I played a small part in making it okay for tadpole gays all over Lima to be themselves in public — not a bad legacy for somebody who once pretended to be in lust with Rachel Berry so he wouldn’t have to date Mercedes Jones. Now if I could just get through the next few days without turning into a hot mess teary trainwreck…”
omg don't you just LOVE adam lambert's new album?
Kurt then trots into the McKinley High Auditorium to meet up with Burt Hummel, who is taking another one of his exceptionally long lunch breaks to chit-chat with his homosexual offspring.
See, Burt’s got a “graduation present” for Kurt, and it’s not a Lamborghini. Is it a pony? It’s not a pony.
but i wanted to go home with the homo
It’s a dance!
Burt’s been exercising his dancing shoes with Tina Cohen-Chang and Ms. Brittany S Pierce to create a near-re-creation of Kurt’s glittery gay “Single Ladies” situation circa 2009:
So that was nice and weird and cute or whatever, and Kurt says it’s the best gift ever, even though it’s not a pony.
We then cut to another strangely abandoned classroom where Blaine’s getting antsy regarding his future with Kurt.
Blaine: “We’ve been putting this off for far too long but don’t you think we should have the talk?”
Kurt: “Can’t we just have two final days of denial?”
Blaine: “No! No, we cannot. This is happening right now, kurt, it’s not some far-off thing in the future. You’re graduating, I’m not. You know how hard long distance relationships can be. We both saw The Notebook.“
but is it possible I might go to posh 7 nights a week and sleep with strange men? well, define "possible."
Kurt: “You wanna know how I picture the end of my life? Just like in The Notebook, I’m sitting in a nursing home talking endlessly about my high school sweetheart, my first love, going on and on about every little detail as if they matter. Only in my version, he’s there with me, telling me I should shut up so he can watch The American Cinematheque Salute to J-Lo.
Blaine: “So, we’re gonna be alright?”
Kurt: “Yes, we’re gonna be alright. I told you I’m never saying goodbye to you. We’ll figure out this whole long distance relationship thing.”
Best evidence that they’re gonna be alright: Blaine just managed to transform a conversation about why they’re not having The Talk into “The Talk.”
Cut back to Glee Club, where Kurt intros his sure-to-be-dazzling tribute song by thanking everybody, “but especially the men in the room, who never saw me for the things that made us different. You only saw me for the ways we are the same. Because in this room it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight, what matters is that we’re friends.”
women, on the other hand -- i mean, ew, right? ew girls!
Yeah what about the girls who never saw him for the things that made them different, but the ways that they were the same, because in this room it doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl, what matters is that they’re friends. What about that? What about your Hags, Hummel?!
I’m completely unable to participate in the emotional experience of Kurt’s Madonna cover due to my slack-jawed awe at how blatantly — yet invisibly to those not paying attention to such things — this show’s obsessed with its own manhood. Also he’s doing the assignment wrong, so.
Cut to the Hallowed Vanishing Hallways of McKinley High, where Rachel’s wetting her Tuesday panties over the acceptance and/or rejection letters arriving shortly for her, her gay best friend and that vertically blessed pile of peet moss the kids refer to as “Finn Hudson.”
i'm even wearing the headband that inspired "my headband" for good luck
The trio pinky-super-promise to rendez-vous in the choir room and open said letters together, which’ll undoubtedly be happy for some and sad for others.
kurt will bring his marc jacobs letter opener
Also in the Hallowed Hallways of McKinley High, Sam has raided Party City and buried his ambitious girlfriend in a mountain of purple party balloons to celebrate today’s preposterous and insane development regarding the future of a McKinley High senior: an “indie label” representative in Los Angeles saw Mercedes singing “Disco Inferno” on YouTube and wants her to do backup vocals for somebody, somewhere.
i mean, they haven't seen this hat yet, so there's a possibility they could change their minds
In yet another terrific feat of policy-defying college admissions stunts, Mercedes demurely adds that she’ll be taking “extension classes” at UCLA, the second-highest-ranked public university in the entire country.
Santana says if it was anybody but Mercedes, she’d be super jealous and bitchy about it, but she truly believes Mercedes deserves it and therefore deserves a hug, and everybody knows that the point of a hug is to make your boobs touch.
a) wow that must be special for you, b) oh god, him too?, c) well isn't that precious
Sam enthusiastically notes that Mike’s future is also looking bright bright bright, and he’s correct as Mike Chang is actually doing what Mike Chang would do if Mike Chang were a real person.
Mike: “I was all set to go to Alvin Ailey but then The Joffrey in Chicago called and offered me a scholarship.”
and between you and me, i can tell you right now on the record that joffrey actually exists
Tina jovially adds that Santana must be creaming in her skort about swapping out that filthy Cheerios outfit for whatever fantastic uniform University of Lousiville’s got up their non-existant sleeves. “Yeah, I can’t wait!” says Santana in a voice tht suggests she could totally wait, possibly forever.
to be honest with you, i'd rather study brittany's inner thighs than any part of Kentucky
And thus, Santana’s stormy VaLima monologue begins:
Santana: “This is so embarassing. I’m a star. So what am I doing heading to Kentucky? I’m just as talented as Mercedes, Boy Chang, Berry or Lady Hummel. Thank G-d for Mom. She’ll know what to do.”
…and just like that, we cut to Gloria Estefan partaking in breadsticks & lettuce at breadsticks with Good Ship Brittana.
three girls, one cup
Much like the rest of us, Brittany’s remained in the dark regarding Santana’s “coming out to her parents” experience and is undoubtedly rapt with attention as Maribel delivers the scoop:
Maribel Lopez: “When Santana finally said, Mami, Papi, I’m gay, all I could think of was ‘I should’ve known’! When she was 8 she went trick-or-treating as Uncle Jesse on Full House. Spent three years growing out that haircut — business in the front–”
Both: “Party in the back!” [laughter]
Heather: “So you really didn’t care?”
Maribel Lopez: “I care that my baby’s happy.”
Santana: “I wish Abuela felt the same.”
Maribel Lopez: “I know, it sucks, mi hija, but you don’t want a person in your life that doesn’t support your dreams.”
…or who was only on contract for one episode. Anyhow, something’s clearly weighing on the mystifying mind encased in Santana’s beautiful melon, and it’s about Kentucky:
Santana: “I don’t wanna go to that cheerleading program at the University of Louisville. I wanna go to New York.”
Maribel Lopez: “Go to college, Santana. Do what i never got the chance to do. New York will still be there after you’ve earned your college degree.”
brittany, not in front of mom, you dirty devil
Maribel Lopez: “Brittany, I understand you got into Perdue University?”
Brittany: “Not the University, the poultry farm. Plucker is a studied profession but I can’t go to either because I’m not graduating.”
It’s hard to know what’s more shocking — that we’re re-introducing the Chicken Plucker joke from two weeks ago or that Santana’s unaware her girlfriend is flunking out, big time.
see this is what happens when we don't get any lines, ryan murphy, we end up missing important pieces of information such as this one about each other
Santana: “What?!!”
Brittany: “Yeah, I was kinda glad when I found out that I was flunking ’cause it’ll give me a chance to do my senior year all over again, and way better! I’ll show up to my classes this time. Plus I’ll get to be a two-term senior class president.”
Santana: “Why are you acting like this is okay? and why didn’t you tell me?
Brittany: “What did you think was going to happen to me? I have a 0.0 grade point average.”
she could maybe do something like this
Let’s not dwell on the fact that Brit-Brit would’ve failed to move forward academically from 9th to 10th grade, let alone 10th to 11th or 11th to 12th, with a 0.0 GPA, and move forward to My Ideas For Brit-Brit. See, here’s the thing: Brittany’s a pretty good dancer. And just like playing football or being a model, dancing is a talent one need not attend college to pursue.
So, I think Brittany should give a local college a whirl, and if the experience flops, I suggest she move to Los Angeles and try out for So You Think You Can Dance. She may only make it to the final 30, but she could still segue that into, oh, I dunno, a spot as a backup dancer for The Beyoncé Experience world tour. Obviously she’ll kill it, and end up working again with Beyoncé on a mini “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” promotional tour which will land Brit-Brit on a series of impressive soundstages, such as the American Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Today. Perhaps Brit-Brit will even snag a spot doing backup for Beyonce and Tina Turner at the Grammys, or get some small parts dancing in films like Fired Up and on television shows like Eli Stone and Swingtown.
Who knows, maybe one day she’ll get a gig teaching the “Single Ladies” dance to the cast of a new program about high school showchoir and the producers will like her so much that they’ll bring her into the main cast. And then she can say goodbye to the Chicken Factory and Lima forever.
Speaking of Lima forever:
Santana: Well, maybe if Brittany’s staying in Lima, I should stay, too.”
Maybe this is just what we do at the end when the future seems too scary to bear — we freeze and cling to the nearest human being because that human being is the only thing we know for sure that we actually want. The rest of it is just so big and scary and unknown. The whole world.
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“LOOK RACHEL, YOU DESERVE TO HAVE SEX THAT LASTS FOR MORE THAN 30 SECONDS, AND I CAN’T GIVE YOU THAT” … No, but I’m pretty sure Quinn can!
let’s see that deleted scene.
I mean … what?
that mr.shue song is worth sitting for the quinntana moment tbh
i mean i was about to skip it but then santana was all “hey q” and then quinn was all “hey s” and brittany looked really bummed cause no one said hey to her
Every time they show Mr. Shue onscreen, I make involuntary gagging noises and have to look away. That happened a lot this episode. Apparently, Mr. Shue’s grossness made me miss a moment. Damn you, Mr. Shue.
Before I read this, I just wanna say that I was fully expecting Vitamin C’s ‘Graduation’ to be in this episode. How disappointing.
Glee is in the business of ruining perfect pop songs, so Graduation would’ve been an autotuned Finn and Blaine duet dedicated to Puck or something. Let’s be glad Vitamin C was spared the Glee treatment.
I was too!
Quinn, I know you love Rachel, but damn. Megabus is so much cheaper.
I think it’s time for me to say what I say every time. I hate you, Glee. I hate you violently.
A friend pointed out last night that Finn’s dad was wearing a Marine uniform in his photo, not an army uniform. That may be why Finn has been so unsuccessful in restoring his dad’s honor. He’s been writing to the wrong branch of the military this whole time. Poor Finn. He is dumb as a box of rocks. And now Finn will join the army in an attempt to give honor to his marine father. And his whole life will be pointless.
Glee is so good at research and fact checking.
“And now Finn will join the army in an attempt to give honor to his marine father. And his whole life will be pointless.”
Oh Hilary, you make me laugh, which is good because otherwise I might cry about how vile Glee is.
I’m glad I have a purpose–unlike Finn.
I liked where the main characters ended up, for the most part, but I hate how they got there. Like, Rachel would not have gone to NY if Finn hadn’t pushed her to do it, which is just such a load of crap I can’t even. I hope to God having Rachel in NY and Finn elsewhere next season brings the real Rachel Berry back to us b/c I am tired of this pod person. Also Santana had better fucking go to NY so that the best fanfic I’ve ever read can come true. Basically I hope season 4 is the Rachel/Santana/Quinn show.
Also, Rachel would not have arrived at Grand Central on a train from Ohio, she would’ve arrived at Penn. That bothered me the most, I think.
but Penn’s so ugly
I was mostly pissed at how they revealed the desires of the other Glee characters that are not Finn, Kurt, Quinn and Rachel during the very last season of the episode. We never heard what Mercedes or Santana wanted before today, and Mike got that one exposition episode and was promptly forgotten about again. I don’t even care about Puck, but we don’t know what he’s doing, either. Why is it that the black and Latina characters don’t want to go to college?
The Quinn/Puck and Rachel/Finn stuff made me want to scream and throw things at Ryan Murphy’s head.
Lmao at the recap! What happened to this show though considering it used to be so good.. Did Ryan pull an Ilene and fire all the best/brain-functioning writers?
I can’t believe that everyone dropped everything to help Puck graduate, but nobody batted A SINGLE EYELASH at the fact that Brittany was failing. ANGRY. And Santana didn’t even know about it?! Please. Never in a million years.
Do Quinn and Rachel ever talk about anything other than the fact that they’re friends?
I think the thing I found most exasperating, though, was the ridiculousness of the graduation ceremony itself. I mean what was that.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO BRITTANY, YOU ASSHOLE WRITERS, JESUSVSIRNHIOAENHO
My headcannon to make me feel better about Santana not knowing is that Brittany is a genius who sucks at school. The missing Brittana scenes we never get to see are where she shows her true genius.
Nevermind the fact that we’ve seen Santana in classes with her. Nevermind that she’d totally know if her girlfriend/best friend was failing tests when they sit together. It works otherwise. >_>
I’m so glad this horrid season is over. We get a multi-episode arc about Puck maybe not graduating and yet no one gives a fuck that Brittany isn’t graduating, and how did Santana have no idea that Brittany had failed all of her classes.
Yeah, and Santana worried about Brittany failing and not seeing her again for about 0.5 seconds. I wish the writers weren’t so committed to being sloppy.
the best thing about this whole episode was that these words came to be written:
“…and cut to Finn picking up Rachel so they can go get straight-married, have ten bilion lizard babies and start a potato farm to grow as many mini-Finns as possible.”
i hate myself for getting obsessed, excuse me- emotionally involved, in the lives of these fictional characters. so glad it’s over for now. i hate these fucking people. god help us all.
I was really hoping their graduation would go the way of Buffy’s graduation (that is to say — spoiler alert! — awful educators being eaten by giant snake monsters and the high school being destroyed) but really, Rachel and Santana in NYC with Quinn a train ride away and Finn in another hemisphere is the best possible season ending that doesn’t involve Buffy/Faith subtext.
Also, I stopped watching Glee after this season premiere, but these recaps have caused me so many laughs, so thank you!
*puts on tinhat*
So, can we talk about the fact that L. Quinn Fabray just spent a total of $800 ($400 each) to purchase train tickets to make sure that she and Rachel will “stay in touch”?
And that when she says that Rachel and Finn are meant to be together, they break up, but any resistance Quinn has shown to them only reinforces their godawful plans for marital union?
So. What I’m getting is that Faberry is endgame.
*takes off the tinhat*
I fucking hate this show.
actually a round-trip metro north ticket from new york to new haven would only cost like $30
I think those passes are year long, so they can see each other as much as, or little, possible.
You can’t buy yearly passes on Metro-North. In fact, the highest denomination you can buy is monthly passes, which made me wonder why Quinn wasted her money since they won’t be starting college for another few months.
Bless her crush on Rachel.
Quinn is totally one of those girls that is waiting till college to come out.
I don’t know if it was Di’s playing up (her own) gay, the writing, the producers pandering to the Faberry audience, but yea everything about that girl in HS, she’s totally coming out in college.
The thing I couldn’t get over is how it could possibly be ok for Finn to pretend to drive Rachel to their WEDDING only to BREAK UP WITH HER INSTEAD. Also, let her go back to her house and pack for real, c’mon!
I’ll take it over them getting courthouse-married and Rachel giving up her dream to coach her high school boyfriend into getting into an actor’s program he’s a degree short for.
“Maybe this is just what we do at the end when the future seems too scary to bear — we freeze and cling to the nearest human being because that human being is the only thing we know for sure that we actually want. The rest of it is just so big and scary and unknown. The whole world.”
I love you, Riese
amazing that you’re able to pull something profound out of this horrid shitshow
“Did you hear it, reader? Did you? I did. I heard Jane Lynch talking to Dianna Agron”.
Yes !
My favorite scene was with Sue and Quinn.
Everything else was ridiculous. I am done with this show.
hi, fiona grapple. I like Fiona Apple, too.
I don’t think I have ever hated a character more than I hate Finn. I knew the finale would focus on him a bit but dedicating a song to him for his sacrifices? I couldn’t roll my eyes enough. The only reason I watched this show was for Santana which I’m not sure is enough to get me to watch another season.
Finn embodies everything I hate about everything. No fictional character has ever so frequently caused me to explode into paroxysms of rage. I think it’s because the writers seem to have no clue of his utter awfulness. I COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT THEY DEDICATED THE BEATLES SONG TO FINN. I was like, “wait! is this happening on everyone’s screen, or is someone playing a deeply cruel trick with the specific goal of undermining my ever-fragile mental well-being?” GAH, and when he said he hadn’t hurt anyone real bad with that stupid motherfucking smirk (flawlessly mocked by Chris Colfer in last week’s freaky friday episode, by the way!), I threw up in my mouth.
I’ve just realized that Finn Hudson is the embodiment of the White Man’s Burden concept. Does that make sense?
Yeah, “In My Life” is one of the most beautiful songs by The Beatles/of the entire 1960’s and they fucking dedicated it to Finn. I threw up in my mouth too.
On a happier note, I think it’s foreshadowing and I think he’s going to get killed off somehow next season. And I have to say I think it’s looking like they might pair Quinn and Rachel too. They seem to be leaving that door open.
Maybe the show was intended, however unfunny and tone deaf it ended up being, as a commentary on the death of white male heterosexual privilege, as personified by our favorite mindless lump? Either way, FAIL.
Like the writers would have thought to use foreshadowing! (And it’s even less likely that they had the ability to think of making Finn the representation of the kyriarchy). If Finn ends up dead, it’s not because they planned for it.
But I cannot deny that you should be writing for Glee! It would be a lot more interesting. And there would probably be a storyline to follow.
Before I saw the episode I thought I wouldn’t go crazy, I’d just respond to the episode with a simple “ugh, gag me” comment that I imagined would be appropriate enough. It was, but I can’t just say that… I CAYNT. I don’t even know where to begin – luckily you covered most of the killmenow moments or I’d type forever. The episode should have been called “Goodbye Finn” forreals.
I just can’t understand the exaltation of Finn and his sacrifices. Didn’t they all get slushied? Even Brittanaquinn, who joined for the wrong reasons, had more to lose when they stayed because they were *actual* champions with the Cheerios. The football team were literally losers anyway. Not to mention the original five who kept the club in existence and did all the hard work so that there was something for all those morons to join anyway. Yes, they’re ALL morons, because they let the Finn praise happen.
I actually thought this episode would be a tad sad… reminding me of the show I liked when it started. Instead, in a fitting finish showing what this show really is, I had conniptions at all of the scenes that were meant to be heartwarming, and laughed at all the scenes that were meant to be sad.
On another note, Sue’s “re-varnishing your hair helmet” line to Roz Washington did give me the lolz. Entertained by one minute, in forty. Jeez, I can’t believe I made it through this season.
Somehow a show celebrating outsiders turned into a show about pretending that straight white boys are who run around being racist and homophobic are actually awesome people, and celebrating them for it. This crap is now served to us weekly, and we keep coming back for it because of the delicious, if miniscule, side-dish of gay storyline that comes with it. These are sad times, my friends, sad times.
There are so many wrong things about this show post-1st season that I can’t even…
But this is what bothers me the most: “a show celebrating outsiders turned into a show about pretending that boys who run around being racist and homophobic are actually awesome people, and celebrating them for it.”
And the fact is, these characters were not always like that. I remember at some point Finn (who now I simply can’t bear) being a sweet dumb. That’s what he was: stupid. He just didn’t have enough information to work with, but I don’t think he was supposed to be the selfish a-hole portrayed later.
I don’t know what actually made the producers change their minds about the characters, but I don’t blame the writers (I think they had to work with what they had in hands, at that moment). I guess the problem is FOX, actually, and who FOX sees as audience: gay boys and teenage girls (who mistake their crush on the actors by their actual roles – a.k.a. “The Finn” and “The Blaine” shows).
But I’m glad about these recaps! They are the only thing that will make me watch (or not) an episode next season.
NOOOO, I Blame the fucking writers, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
The ridiculousness the show has become is tremendous. Crap writing is one thing, but crap writing combined with rubbish research (any 1st year uni student could research better than them idiots) and zero effort to make the show even semi realistic is another.
I think you totally missed the point when they were opening their acception/rejection letters. Firstly, props to the writers for not sending them all to New York – it would have been too neat and perfect. While Kurt getting rejected was really surprising, his silent expression seemed a lot more realistic than him going “Ah wow, well done Rachel!”, skipping up and down on the spot. His expression instead was a mixture of hurt, envy, and happiness for his friend. It’s hardly being an “asshole” if you’ve just had your dreams dashed and you’re blatantly upset.
But you know that Rachel would’ve put aside her dejection to be ecstatic for her friend if the roles had been reversed.
EXACTLY
Except, you know, she didn’t? When Kurt got his “I’m a finalist” letter and told her about it she was all “Yay! Now let’s talk more about how miserable I am!” As ridiculous as the entire NYADA storyline was, they set it up so not getting in amounted to their entire dreams being dashed etc etc. I think that merits a moment of “characteristic self-absorption”, jesus christ.
and if she hadn’t, the show would’ve made her seem like a selfish bitch.
Like that time when Kurt got his finalist letter and Rachel still hadn’t and she took all of five seconds before she was crying on Kurt’s shoulder? And like when she choked but Kurt got a good response from the Dean and all that was shown was how sad and unhappy she was and we got nothing about Kurt getting to be happy? Their friendship has always been written unequally, the NYADA arc has been all about Rachel and this last scene where Kurt got no more lines after “I didn’t get in” and Rachel couldn’t even take some time to talk to her best friend about how hard it must be to have, you know, all of his dreams come crashing down, just proved how much the writers didn’t care. It really wasn’t Rachel who was written as being done wrong by Kurt, by any means.
I love how the lesson for the show is you get rewarded and lauded for being a straight white dude no matter how awful and homophobic you are, but if you’re a bi girl you don’t count and if you’re a gay kid, you never win anything no matter how hard you work for it.
Oh yeah, good point. But I guess we expect that from Rachel, for her to be incapable of being happy for others, like she paints herself as self-obsessed, ruthlessly so, so her reaction to Kurt doing well when she didn’t was predictable. Finn on the other hand is allegedly this bighearted guy who puts others first, so you’d think he’d be more happy for her. But I guess finn is never who they keep telling us he is, that’s why we hate him
Kudos to Glee because that break up scene was the first Finchel scene that I liked in the three seasons this show has been on air.
Bless Q Fab. She’s gonna go to Yale and flourish into a beautiful lady lover and her weird obsession with Rachel Berry will finally make sense. :)
I don’t know, I find Kurt’s haircut a lot more unfortunate now than I did in Season 1.
I appreciate the Rarity pic.
As someone mentioned above, Buffy had a much better graduation. Sunnydale High, while having a much higher mortality rate, was far better about not being terrible.
and that vertically blessed pile of peet moss the kids refer to as “Finn Hudson.” <<<< I L. O. L'D! I actually love you for that line.
I’m sorry, but it’s total bullshit that Kurt didn’t get in but Rachel did. He did a great job at his audition and Rachel choked. Is it because she had more extra curriculars on her application? The glee universe is a confusing place.
Also, was there even a point to season three at all? Like, really…nothing happened.
Also, since when has Ohio had a train station??
“Maybe this is just what we do at the end when the future seems too scary to bear — we freeze and cling to the nearest human being because that human being is the only thing we know for sure that we actually want. The rest of it is just so big and scary and unknown. The whole world.”
Oh lord, Riese. You write so well. This was one of those moments where you read something and suddenly the preceding two years of your life make sense in a way they didn’t before.
Who knew there could be such profundity in a recap of the Finn Hudson show?
I can’t believe Rachel wore those shoes all the way to new York. That journey must be about 2 days long.
You know, I might have been sad about the end of it, but I was still Raging over the fact that Kurt did Amazing in his audition and Rachel Stiiiiiiill got picked over him. Like really?? wth??
I’m likewise pissed that no one gave a fuck about Brittany not graduating. And that Kurt didn’t get in.
Wtf.
Also Dani Shay is on the Glee Project season 2!
I had no where else to drop this excitement
I guess it’s good to know that if you fuck up your audition, you can just stalk the Dean throughout the midwest until they agree to give you another chance, then screw over everyone else so you’re the featured person at that performance and the deck is massively stacked in your favor! I’ll keep that in mind for future interviewing need-to-knows.
Burt doing Single Ladies and Mama Lopez were the only things of worth in this episode, which is further proof for my hypothesis that Glee should just be a show about singing homosexuals and their parents. Though Gloria should get to sing next time.
Nothing. Thank god.
I can’t lie, it validated my experience as a baby gay with a mullet to hear that Santana also rocked one once upon a time. I think I was more trying to channel AC Slater from Saved by the Bell though.
However, I find it unlikely that she was idolizing Uncle Jesse at 8 when that would have been like 2002, 7 years after Full House went off the air. I know, that’s nothing in the grand scheme of Glee ridiculousness, but I’m just saying.
Hey now, I’m only two years older than Santana and I had the mother of all crushes on Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky. Full House is timeless.
the thought crossed my mind, but I figured she watched it on Nick at Nite or local TV reruns
While I am glad Rachel is not ruining her life for finn, it still just feels like once again finn got to take away a personal choice from a woman in his life. There was no discussion, he told her they were breaking up and that he had decided what she should do with herself instead. It was all for her own good because her knew what was best for her even if she didn’t want it.
I felt that way too! Like, I am so happy that’s the decision he made, but I was furious because he took all of her agency away and told her to do what he wanted her to do. He even told her to “surrender”! What the actual hell?
Gosh I hate this show so much, even just skimming it these days I still hate it.
I felt like the entire last sequence of Rachel stepping foot in NY would have had a more lasting impact had the show given us THAT Rachel Berry in the last year. The Rachel Berry I met in the pilot, that’s the girl I would have been so happy to see finally get her NY dream and be all filled with happiness in seeing that last scene, instead I was left with “well you went and screwed it up again Glee, I can’t even care that Rachel made it to NY cause you stopped making that important 50 episodes ago”
I hate this show so much now. I had to pause it several times because I couldn’t get through some of the painful parts. When the finale was over, I just felt relief because now I can stop watching it and just check some recaps at the end of season 4 to see what happens to Tina.
-I mourn the death of the original Rachel Berry. Perhaps she will return in Season 4.
-Hopefully Army for Finn means that he’s not going to be around.
-I hope Tina does actually become the lead female vocalist for the glee club next season. She’s earned it, goddamnit.
-When, exactly, did Rachel steal Kurt away from Mercedes?
It pains me to read all of this because it’s so true. I try to explain to my friends that Santana and Brittany (and lowkey Santana by herself) and Kurt and Blaine are there reasons that I watch the show. But I’m suffocating. The problematics are just such atrocious it hurts. Are they aware of what they are doing? Do they care?
This show, I still have to believe, has potential. To be subversive, even in its indentured servitude to mainstream tv.
Where are the misfits? There’s more of us than there are them. Where is the allegiance to the first audiences that gave a musical a chance, that gave Ohio a chance, that gave really intense costume designers a chance?
I’ve sat through so much waiting for Glee to pull its shit together, to do what it seemed it set out to do. Center the margins (still only very lowkey). But I guess I put too much stock in FOX (mistake the first and always). It’s just a damn shame that I have to troll the internet and bad tv to find something remotely dignified, of color, and queer-all together. Begging for scraps like Glee.
It’s been real, Glee. But you hurt me. And I guess it wouldn’t be so bad if it hadn’t seemed like it started off to help.
I bid you a serious and sad farewell.
As for the recap, that was fantastic and that poetic line was quite inspiring. Write on!
Lastly, any QPOC, Lesbian of color, or outshining queer white films and/or series to suggest?