I disagree with Bowling for Soup about high school never ending, but it’s true for those who still hang around the place, and Mercedes has a valid emotional response when she is torn down by others in her industry, reopening old wounds. Rachel is necessary, though, to Mercedes’s (Amber Riley) plot, which reignites their high school feud to be the best.
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Rachel (Lea Michele) is the most surprising student attendee of this event, since she works full-time, goes to school full-time, and is starring in a Broadway show, which is pointed out with a wink that does not absolve the series of the glaring ridiculousness of her presence. This trend of redoing old songs in an inferior manner continues throughout the hour with “Toxic,” “Defying Gravity,” “Valerie,” and “Keep Holding On.” They aren’t bad performances, and “Toxic” has cool staging, but if Glee wants to bring back past numbers, there really needs to be more effort to make it worth the fans’ time. To get into the spirit of celebration, April leads them all in a rendition of “Raise Your Glass.” It’s unfortunate, as the Warbler’s version is a classic that will never be matched. How come they care more about the New Directions than those who are part of the group? But the episode ends with April and Holly vowing to finish their wine, then work on a plan.
April thinks she has a solution in “100,” until Sue thwarts it. What’s more, if the glee club is saved, it will come from these two recurring players, not our main heroes.
They are joined first by April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth), then by Holly Holliday (Gwyneth Paltrow), who arrives with a bouncy, yet underwhelming, “Happy.” Their return is great for viewers, but it’s pretty far-fetched, women who encounter the group a couple of times putting their lives on hold for this club, even if they are flighty free-spirits. Yep, apparently these kids have no lives. I’ll miss Glee when it’s gone because television deserves a musical, but it will also be a relief to not have to write weekly columns for a series I’ve come to have such mixed feelings about, frequently frustrated at things so blatantly screwed up in a show I used to love.Īs “100” starts, all of the graduated seniors (who are still alive) have dropped whatever was going on in their lives and come back to McKinley to spend the last week of the New Directions’ existence with the choir. Pierce (Heather Morris), can never quite make the math add up, continuously falling short of what it could and should be. It seems Glee, unlike the unrealistic uber-genius Brittany S. One path makes for a fitting story but comes across as phony, while the other choice doesn’t make sense for the story, but at least feels right. This means Glee has painted itself into a corner. If it’s saved, though, it’ll be some last minute deus ex machina bit that will surely be disappointing, even though it’s the right thing to do. As much as it’s dumb that the glee club is being disbanded, if it is, this really puts a bookend on the high school story for the majority of the cast, and will feel like satisfying closure. If she succeeds, it’s one last happy time together, ending the group in the best of possible ways, everyone coming back and being together. If, and it’s a big if, the New Directions manage to escape Sue’s (Jane Lynch) draconian cuts, this will stand as the triumphant moment when everyone came together to save a beloved institution. It’s a bittersweet party as old feelings are dredged up and a couple of people try desperately to save the sinking ship. This week’s installment, “100,” is the first of two parts in which glee clubbers old and new come together to celebrate the New Directions in its final week of existence, before the series moves almost exclusively to New York, where it has been splitting its time for the past season and a half. Although Glee already has an end date set for spring 2015, we still have about 25% of the show’s entire run to get through before then, so as much as things are winding down, they aren’t over.
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