Previously on GLEE! Show returns to streaming on Disney+/Hulu

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And that’s what you missed on… @DisneyPlus and @Hulu. 💙💚All episodes of #Glee are coming June 1! 🤩 pic.twitter.com/pDArsnRIrO
- GLEE (@OfficialGLEEtv) May 20, 2022
-2nd Glee post in 1 day? Must be Mercury Retrograde

Comments

[thirteenarrows]

i can't deal with the resurgence of this show with gen z and them saying that it's their unironically a good show and their "comfort show". no real fan of glee actually liked glee. if you were in the glee fandom in the years 2009 - 2011 then you hated this damn show and left by the time half the characters went to college. the "fans" of this show hated this more than anyone else ever could and we were all fighting for our damn lives on tumblr dot com. i'm tired of gen z erasing our struggles!!!

in all seriousness, i rewatched it a couple of years back and my god it is so much more offensive than i ever remembered. like there's no way half the jokes would fly these days, but that almost made it funnier at the start because sue leaving a suicide note saying that she was going to commit "sue-icide"???? such an insanely insensitive joke that it had me cackling. but when the show started to actually take itself seriously and took it upon itself to talk about every damn important issue under the sun, then it completely fell apart because the cis white men on the show didn't know how to write about... well anyone who wasn't a cis white man.

then they tried to backtrack and make fun of themselves in later seasons for how awful the writing got, which was funny at times, but you don't get points after doing that awful writing yourselves and continuing to do it lmao. this show was a goddamn mess all around and after i got past season 3 it got so hard to continue rewatching (even 16 year old me dropped out at that point when it was still airing) but at least the songs were bops.

anyway that turned into a bit of a novel. i miss cory and naya <3

[zhenyaodin2]

LOL it really is true that NOBODY hated this show more than the fans. I feel like people only actually liked the show for the first 13 episodes and then it was a full on hate watch, especially by season 3. It's frustrating because when the show was good, man it was fun tv but when it was bad, it was throw things at the tv bad. There was essentially no middle ground with it. And as you said, some of it is remarkably offensive and honestly, it's amazing because this show is just not that old yet good portions of it have truly already aged like milk.

[thirteenarrows]

that's exactly it. even when the show fell apart in that first back nine and then season 2, i kept watching because it could be so fun. again, the comedy has aged absolutely terribly now lmao, but it was always so sharp and on point and the songs were always a good time. but then when it became an after school special every episode the fun was sucked out and you're just left with horribly written characters and heavy handed PSAs shoved down your throat that weren't ever handled well. i think i gave up when finn outed santana and then the very next episode, she's needing to apologise for slapping him so she doesn't get suspended and he makes it up to her by singing an acoustic version of i kissed a girl???? just horrendously handled on so many levels good god.

[zhenyaodin2]

I will die on a hill that Episode 7 of season 3 (I kissed a girl) is the episode that killed the show. It could never recover. I could never really fully get back into it after that. I continued to watch the show but that episode and its treatment of Santana was vile. I remember there was an extra week break too between when Santana slapped Finn and when the next episode happened so there was this big wait to see what was gonna happen and WOW did they handle it horrifically. The best was when Santana was like UPDATE Y'ALL, MY PARENTS ARE FINE WITH IT. Like....does anyone on this show know how to write AT ALL? So bad, SO BAD. Only Glee could have that fantastic rumour has it mashup and dramatic ending with that slap and then flop so hard the next episode.

[thirteenarrows]

LMAOOO yes that's right the discourse after the outing was so strong as well and the fandom was tearing itself to shreds on tumblr, and then the episode starts with santana having to fight not to be suspended and then finn so kindly saying he doesn't want her to be and i was like???? this boy outed her??? where are his consequences??? and then everyone got so excited that we were going to finally meet her family and instead we got a scene with her abuela that we never saw again for another 3 seasons and the horrific "UPDATE Y'ALL!" line. i was sixteen years old and i remember watching that episode and thinking oh no... there's no coming back from this.

i think i gave it a couple more episodes and got to sectionals episode where quinn is made out to be the villain for wanting to out shelby for sleeping with puck. and while her intentions were obviously nefarious because the show never knew how to write her, this was a teacher sleeping with her student, and she just gets a lecture from rachel about how outing shelby would be the wrong thing, and then another by shelby about how she needs to learn to love herself again and then she says the first few lines in control by janet jackson and is cured??? after that i never watched a full episode again until the cory tribute episode, and then in my rewatch 9 years later.

[motivace]

It was girls just wanna have fun, don't know if it makes it any better tho :D

[ishumy]

This comment brought back the memories, oh man. I remember that by season 4 or so, I was continuously rambling to my friend about how much I hated the show, the characters, the storylines, week after week... She told me "then why do you keep watching it?" and it was like a revelation. Glee taught me what hate-watch truly meant. I finally managed to quit it and felt amazing.

Sometimes I watch clips and laugh, or I make Glee references to my friends, or listen to the songs. But it was awful 70% of the time.

[rev0lution_cry]

aw your icon <3