can someone explain what the fuss is about Glee?

[pellucid]

Some weeks ago, I caught about five minutes of the Glee premiere before turning it off when the choir director's wife (I don't know anyone's names) made me want to attack her with a sharp, pointy object. Ah well, I figured, I didn't need another show anyway. But then all manner of my acquaintances, fannish and otherwise, have exploded with love for

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[pellucid]

I think if you have a predisposition toward high school shows, I have a predisposition against them. I admit I've never really understood the broad cultural appeal of shows and movies about high school. I didn't like high schoolers when I was one, and I have very little interest in them now that I'm an adult. There are exceptions--I LOVE Friday Night Lights, for instance--but the fact that Glee is set in a high school is something the good points of the show would need to outweigh, in my mind, rather than something that automatically works in its favor. So quite possibly it was never going to be my thing!

(The other trope with wide cultural appeal that I really don't get is vampires. And the persistent combination of high school + vampires, from Buffy to Twilight to the Vampire Diaries, completely boggles me. I think I'm just not into emo, in whatever manifestation!)

As for Glee, I think I probably would enjoy it if I mostly skipped the plot and just watched the musical numbers, but I really don't have the time right now, so probably I'll just let it go. This discussion has been really interesting, though! I had no idea opinions were so polarized--everything I'd seen had been enthusiastically pro-Glee, so I was a little confused when I didn't like it very much at all. But the whole picture is looking much more complex than I'd initially thought.