Gleeful millstones.

[antennapedia]

I watched the episode of Glee that followed the Stupor Bowl and was baffled by how anybody could like the show. It was on the nose, painfully awkward, implausible. The musical numbers were overproduced, over-pitch-corrected, and obviously not sung by the actors. Even worse, its arrangement butchered one of the greatest pop songs of all time and

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[frenchani]

I'm with you. Stupidity is really what puts me off when it comes to tv shows. I can't stand Glee because it's silly, badly written and the characters are stupid, and watching Merlin is just too painful despite King Giles and that wonderful smile of his.

And House is becoming more and more painful to watch as well, now that it has forgotten the Sherlock Holmes pattern to be just soap opera.

*sighs*

[secondalto]

Glee is one of my few guilty pleasures. I agree that most of the storylines (and the musical numbers) are highly improbable. (And don't get me started on the cheerleaders wearing their uniforms in the winter. Lima is just north of me IRL, Mr.Murphy needs to be spending a week of winter here, just saying.)

But one of the storylines they are dealing with this season, involving Kurt and bullying because he's gay is being done very well and I sometimes wish that the whole show could just be Kurt and his dad, they rock my socks.

[wide_rider]

LJ needs a 'Like' button...

[antennapedia]

Heh!

[kivrin]

Try Downton Abbey - it's written by the man who wrote Gosford Park and by episode two* you've got Dame Maggie Smith having a snark-off with Harriet Jones (Prime Minister).

*or maybe three, depending on whether you watch it on Netflix Streaming or pbs.org. Masterpiece recut the original seven 50-60 minute eps into four 80-90 minute eps.

[antennapedia]

Have you just said a number of things that fascinate me strangely? Yes, yes you have.

[clavally]

The only reason to watch Glee is for the cheerleading coach. I watch it, though. Sometimes they have decent musical numbers, but mostly it just pisses me off. Like, I don't think they're doing irony as well as they think they are so it comes off wrong. *shrug* At least the new season of Top Gear has started, so there's that to watch.

[antennapedia]

James May testing the new Ariel Atom has been a high point so far, but the commentary about the Mexican sportscar really fell flat. Not hilariously offensive, just stupidly so. The weird thing is that it was in an ep with a lot of mutual abuse at/from the guys from Australian Top Gear, so it was right next to a case of them getting the offensiveness just about right. So my review of the new series thus far is mixed.

The Top Gear soundtracks are some of my favorite things in TV, by the way. I love playing name that tune with them. I get about 2% of them, and the rest I can look up on this awesome forum.

[clavally]

Oooh, thanks for the link!

And I COMPLETELY agree about the comments regarding the Mexican sportscar. That was uncomfortable to watch. Maybe we're just more sensitive to it because of our proximity to Mexico? They certainly wouldn't have gotten away with it if they were an American show, or I like to think they wouldn't.

[cooljello]

Seriously, forget about Glee. 275# Impressive. In only three years? Muy Impressive.

[antennapedia]

Women tend to do really well with lower-body moves like the deadlift, which hits glutes and hamstrings hardest. I still struggle with the bench press once it starts getting heavy.

I'm giving Glee a pass for now. Sigh.