Spoilers for last night’s Glee follow: Prom night, typically, is about failure to live up to expectations, the disparity between an impossible fantasy and an unattainable reality. It’s long stretches of mundanity, redeemed, if you’re lucky, by a few memorable moments. (So I’m told. That, or your date comes down with mono like two days [...]

Spoilers for last night’s Glee: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is a classic of pop rock, a genre that Glee introduced itself to the world with (Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”). And it’s a notoriously personal work, inspired by the couplings and decouplings within the group, compounded by gossip and misinformation outside the group—pretty much the essence of [...]

Spoilers for last night’s Glee follow: “Born This Way” was something different for Glee: a 90-minute episode (even if a lot of that extra time was for commercials). And in another it was something absolutely ordinary for Glee: a return to its default theme of difference and acceptance. The former fact made the episode a [...]

Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up: Whether Glee is in the middle of a strong or shaky set of episodes, powerful or ridiculous storylines (or both at once), it usually manages to get things together for its regional/sectional competition episodes. It’s the opposite of what one might think, because the demands of those episodes—more [...]