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Episode 4.02: “Britney 2.0″
(Spoilers lurk below.) This is Glee‘s first direct sequel to a tribute episode, and one has to wonder why the hell they decided to revisit Britney Spears. I mean, Madonna or Michael Jackson would have...
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Episode 4.03: “Makeover”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Let’s cut right to the heart of the matter: “Makeover” is a flop. But it’s an interesting flop. It doesn’t fail in quite the same way as most of the series’s previous flops...
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Episode 4.04: “The Break-Up”
(Spoilers lurk below.) After two episodes of floundering around, Glee wisely finds refuge in an episode centered around a subject that has proven fertile ground before: relationships. They’ve done...
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Episode 4.06: “Glease”
(Spoilers lurk below.) If this episode had consisted of only the sixth act, I’d have said it was pretty good. Unfortunately, there were five unfocussed, silly, plotless acts before it. At its heart,...
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Episode 4.10: “Glee, Actually”
(Spoilers lurk below.) To say that Glee has a spotty record with Christmas episodes would be generous. Season two’s “A Very Glee Christmas” and season three’s “Extraordinary Merry Christmas” both fell...
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Episode 4.13: “Diva”
(Spoilers lurk below.) After the wackiness of last week, it was good to get a little more down to earth, or at least what passes for “down to earth” on Glee. This was a decent episode, but its good...
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Episode 4.18: “Shooting Star”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Is it possible for two outstanding acts to save an entire episode? Is it possible for one very offensive and wrong-headed writing decision to tank it? And what can you say about...
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Episode 4.22: “All or Nothing”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Where do I even start with this? Season four as a whole could be described as unfocussed at best and unremarkable at worst, at least until the season finale came along to drag...
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Episode 5.12: “100”
(Spoilers lurk below.) One hundred episodes of Glee. Wow. Say what you want about the quality of the show and whether or not it’s gotten worse or better, but for a television musical to last this long...
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Episode 5.13: “New Directions”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This is it, the final farewell to the high school half of the show. And a truly good riddance it is, right? Despite the fact that they have done some good things with it in...
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