Not a Recap of Glee, The Final Season

It’s hard to believe that what began as a joyful posse of singing teens has turned into such a tired hot mess.  I always finish a book no matter how awful, therefore, I will finish this slow train wreck that is Glee’s last season.

I still believe that Glee should have ended when Mr. Shue turned off the lights in the choir room last season. Had it ended there, I may have forgiven the new cast, and the totally implausible lives of the graduated Gleeks in New York.  I swear, American Horror Story has had much more plausible plot lines then Glee since season 3.

Lea Michelle is unrecognizable from season 1 until the present.  I’m not sure if she had work done, but she’s had a major transformation to a look that won’t happen in Lima, Ohio.  But there she is, having failed at her dream Broadway role and television.  Quite an accomplishment for a person allegedly under the age of 21!

This episode finds her and Kurt now leading the Glee Club.  He’s doing some sort of externship for a NYADA several states away?  I could almost forgive these crazy plot holes when they started to sing Carole King.  It was a nice reminder that this show used to be fun, with downloadable worthy music.  Kurt pines over Blaine, whom he dumped.  Blaine is now with Dave?  I’ve never seen a least likely couple.  It stabs at the heart of the Blaine we met at Dalton; the guy who helped rescue Kurt from Dave and become confident in himself as a gay teen.

Santana and Brittany get engaged in the choir room, where all fated engagements begin. (Finnchel and Klaine)  Kurt poops on that party and gets a classic put down jam from Santana. I know people love her hate, but I never cared for it.  Wasn’t this show supposed to be about how bullies are NOT cool?  

Becky and her potty mouth show up.  I never understood why the writers made her such an unlikeable character.  I think we’re supposed to laugh, since the bias is that people with Down’s syndrome are sweet, and she’s not.  I always felt this was forced. Her new boyfriend is “normal” and immediately everyone hates him, how stupid. I’m glad he called them on their bullsh#t and forced them to see that they were not treating her equally.

The Coach Beastie’s revelation frustrated me.  It’s as if the writers forgot that she who she was in previous seasons.  I remember being moved by her speech to Will in “Never Been Kissed” about how she’s an unusual woman, but she’s still wants to be treated as a woman.  If she had gender dysmorphia, I doubt she would have said those things.  It just seems to me that Ryan Murphy and crew just have to have all the straight actors gay, gay actors straight, and everyone had better deal!  It’s just tired.

There are some new Glee club members, who I refuse to invest in at this point. The “graduates” did most of the singing.  Puck stood there saying and doing nothing.  I suppose he’s AWOL from the Air Force.  (Just like everyone else in the series.)  I rolled my eyes at how proud Kurt and Rachel are at the end of the episode about their “teaching.”  I don’t believe one needs degrees, or years of experience, to host an after-school extra-curricular activity. Expecting Glee to be realistic is like wishing my cat could cook, it’s just not going to happen.