So, Glee
Gets stupider every week. Still. I hate most of the characters and want to punch them in the face. I tend to skip-forward through the eps because I can't handle how dumb it is.
Like in the most recent episode, with Emma. At the end of last season, she started going to therapy and taking medication for her OCD; at the opening of this season, she's doing amazingly well, with her symptoms apparently very much under control, living with her boyfriend, starting to sort out her sex life. (It's not made clear whether or not she's overcome her illness enough to actually have sexual contact, but she's touching him casually and expressing sexual interest, and they're sharing a bed.)
But then her boyfriend does something amazingly stupid! (Her boyfriend is a cockface, which is not the point of this entry.) She tells him she isn't comfortable with him meeting her parents, but refuses to say why, so Cockface McDouchebag goes behind her back and invites the parents to dinner, because that is a totally logical and okay thing to do. And the parents are horrible racists who make fun of Emma's mental illness, and Cockface shouts at them, and the whole situation is very horrible, and triggers Emma, so she starts exhibiting OCD behaviours and general anxiety.
And things are not wrapped up tidily by the end of the episode! There is a dreadful musical montage where Cockface McTotalAsshole sings a stupid song badly while Emma prays and cries and tries so so hard not to do her little comforting counting rituals. And it's made extremely clear that, even though Emma is doing better, even though she's going therapy and taking her meds and coping, it's a day-by-day struggle, and it's not easy, and it can't be magically fixed. I was so sure that after the end of last season, they would drop that plotline, and Emma would be magically fixed! Hooray! But they haven't. And they're dealing with it with what looks suspiciously like tact and delicacy.
(I mean, for a given value of tact and delicacy. The parents are ridiculous caricatures - "Ginger supremacists" - because god forbid we treat a serious topic with anything other than over-the-top slapstick. And Will, despite being a massive asshole for the majority of the WHOLE SHOW episode, is supposed to be the 'good guy' because he kneels beside Emma and sings to her while she desperately prays her way through a panic attack HE CAUSED. UGH. You can't polish shit, Glee. Dipping it in glitter doesn't count. Will is a smug, arrogant, nasty, horrid man.)
Like in the most recent episode, with Emma. At the end of last season, she started going to therapy and taking medication for her OCD; at the opening of this season, she's doing amazingly well, with her symptoms apparently very much under control, living with her boyfriend, starting to sort out her sex life. (It's not made clear whether or not she's overcome her illness enough to actually have sexual contact, but she's touching him casually and expressing sexual interest, and they're sharing a bed.)
But then her boyfriend does something amazingly stupid! (Her boyfriend is a cockface, which is not the point of this entry.) She tells him she isn't comfortable with him meeting her parents, but refuses to say why, so Cockface McDouchebag goes behind her back and invites the parents to dinner, because that is a totally logical and okay thing to do. And the parents are horrible racists who make fun of Emma's mental illness, and Cockface shouts at them, and the whole situation is very horrible, and triggers Emma, so she starts exhibiting OCD behaviours and general anxiety.
And things are not wrapped up tidily by the end of the episode! There is a dreadful musical montage where Cockface McTotalAsshole sings a stupid song badly while Emma prays and cries and tries so so hard not to do her little comforting counting rituals. And it's made extremely clear that, even though Emma is doing better, even though she's going therapy and taking her meds and coping, it's a day-by-day struggle, and it's not easy, and it can't be magically fixed. I was so sure that after the end of last season, they would drop that plotline, and Emma would be magically fixed! Hooray! But they haven't. And they're dealing with it with what looks suspiciously like tact and delicacy.
(I mean, for a given value of tact and delicacy. The parents are ridiculous caricatures - "Ginger supremacists" - because god forbid we treat a serious topic with anything other than over-the-top slapstick. And Will, despite being a massive asshole for the majority of the WHOLE SHOW episode, is supposed to be the 'good guy' because he kneels beside Emma and sings to her while she desperately prays her way through a panic attack HE CAUSED. UGH. You can't polish shit, Glee. Dipping it in glitter doesn't count. Will is a smug, arrogant, nasty, horrid man.)