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Top 10: Solos → 3. Girl on Fire

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Santana … shimmies on over to some Kubrickian hotel and waits in the dark for Brody to come try to hook for her. He opens the door, all, ‘Honey, I’m ho—fuck. Is this the part where you kill me?’ Santana smiles sweetly and tells him it’s not her he needs to worry about tonight. The bathroom door opens, and out walks Rachel.

Oh, thank God. You know, I kind of thought Glee had soiled itself in my esteem in an irredeemable way last season when Finn had to dupe Rachel into getting on a train and move to New York. This is a show that built itself on the back of Rachel Berry’s ambition. It’s the thread that has always woven everything together, from the very beginning. It brought Glee (and glee club) together and held Glee (and glee club) together and despite all of the other stuff that found its way into the main narrative, Rachel’s talent and Rachel’s aspirations were the themes all the other themes were built on. So to have her lose herself in a boy so completely that she wouldn’t even follow her lifelong dream of moving to New York unless he coerced her into it? What a gross message. What an awful character assassination. And then to bring her to the city and trap her in another storyline where her whole self is built on the validation of another boy? It makes my breast ache with rage.

So it is such a relief to see her finally confronting Brody, both the character who is doing her dirty and the symbolism of the thing that is holding her down. To look that thing right in the eye and say, ‘I am better than this. I see it now. I am Rachel Motherfucking Berry’ is such a relief. Finally, her character can grow into the woman we were introduced to in the pilot.

Just kidding, you guys. It’s Finn in the bathroom. ‘Stay away from my future wife,’ is what he shouts while beating the shit out of Brody.

Not even Liz Lemon could roll her eyes hard enough to convey the correct emotion about that turn of events.

Heather Hogan, AfterEllen, Glee 4x16 recap

Glee - “Girls (and Boys) on Film” (4x15)

• “Come What May” was phenomenal.  I guess absence makes the heart grow fonder because I didn’t totally love Klaine for a long time. I’ve loved Kurt and Blaine as individuals since their first appearance on screen, but it wasn’t until some point in this season that I started really loving them as a couple.  Anyway, their Moulin Rouge number was fantastic, and I loved that they shot it so you thought it was Blaine picturing it, but it turned out to be Kurt.  
• Is Santana back for good now?  Because, yes please.  Between the Klaine duet and Santana running her mouth, that’s probably just enough to get me to watch regularly again.  I’m sad she didn’t sing, but I’ll take her long, insulting, snarky, hilarious speeches any day.  How can you be mad that your friend who arrived unexpectedly to your apartment, whom you let live there rent free, goes through all your stuff and makes fun of you and your roommate’s boyfriends and finds out your big secret?  I love that Kurt was about to throw her out the window but the second she started ragging on Brody he was her BFF.
• I love that Unique sung the lead in the girls’ mash-up.  Both mash-ups bored me, but Unique being the main singer in the girls’ number with no fanfare was awesome.  
• Am completely uninvested and/or over everyone and everything else.  The ginger hair thing, the Marley-Jake-Ryder triangle, the Emma-Will thing, the Emma-Finn thing, the Will-Finn thing, everything involving Plastic Brody, Kurt dating a super-sweet-and-understand-but-looks-35-years-old guy, etc.  

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Grey’s, Scandal, and Glee

Grey’s Anatomy - “Hard Bargain” (9x15)

• Arizona, I wouldn’t give my plane crash money to a hospital, either.  
• Dr. Smash/Shane continues to be amusing.
• Of course the best thing about the guy’s baby mama is that she’s “smart and tough,” not “sweet and pretty.”  I love it.  I also really like this not-couple that had the baby.
• LOL, Cristina’s reaction (hysterical laughter) at the “plan” to buy the hospital.
• God, Jackson is so fucking hot.  April and Jackson, get your shit together and be with each other!
• Damn straight Cristina would have left Seattle Grace if this bullshit was happening during her intern year.  Intern Stephanie:  1.  Cristina:  0.  
• HAHAHA, Callie’s near-death experience with Derek’s financial advisor in the van (that moves).
• Yep, they all quit.  Figured that out as soon as Cristina (inadvertently) said it early in the episode.  Except why’d they all quit without Chief and Bailey?  And even Jackson and Alex.  I know, there are practical reasons they didn’t tell anyone else.  Still.  
• April lied about not sleeping with Jackson…. this is gonna backfire.  LOL, I’d completely lie that I did sleep with him.

Scandal - “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” (2x14)

• Um… most awkward shower scene ever.
• OMFG, David is being set up for murder.  Just like Captain Cragen on SVU.
• I like Olivia’s straight hair.  Also what they’re doing with her clothes - now that she is most definitely not a white knight or a hero and everyone knows, she’s wearing a dark gray suit.  
• And while I’m on the subject of clothes, I love Harrison’s shirts and ties.
• “I didn’t know they made stock this thin.”  LMFAO.  Fantastic line.
• Mellie, you’re a sneaky bastard on multiple levels with that “trust me” speech.  And Fitz, you’re either way too gullible, or you know exactly what she’s doing and are doing some version of a long con yourself.  I hope it’s the latter.
• Damn, that sex scene between Olivia and Fitz.  Did Shonda forget she was on network TV?  
• Good God, Henry, be creepier and stalkier and lurkier.  That is so disturbing.

Glee - “I Do” (4x14)

• Emma killed that wedding song.  Yes, run far away from Mr. Schue, “the man-child with the 19-year-old best man.”
• I like how Finn literally said “I’m the worst person in the world.”  
• I also like how Kurt called Tina out on her ridiculous behavior toward Blaine.  Vapo-rape is never acceptable.
• Mercedes and her “arm-gays”!  Also Mercedes singing.  More Mercedes, please.
• Kurt and Blaine trying to hide their boners was fucking hilarious.  And we all know they’re endgame.  
• Rachel and Finn, I’m not thrilled that they seem to be endgame, too.  But between Brody and Finn, I’ll take Finn.
• Santana and Quinn.   They would be an interesting couple, constantly fighting and competing and being enormously entertaining, not to mention ridiculously attractive.  So a big part of me loved every second they were on screen together.  But as this show is run by Ryan Fucking Murphy, I don’t really know what to think.  It felt kinda random and not all that genuine.
• I really do like Marley and Jake and the others if they could be secondary characters.  I also think Marley is what they were going for with Hobo Jo’s character on Grey’s - someone who is girl-next-door at first glance but who has more to her story than meets the eye, with a specific combination of toughness and vulnerability.  Too bad they missed by a mile.  Hobo Jo is boring and annoying and does not pull off the “I’m tough; I made it through the foster care system” at all.  Aaaand I’ve just gone full circle and am talking about Grey’s again.  Not on purpose.  So I’ll stop.

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Catching up on Glee

I caught up on the last 3 or 4 episodes of Glee after hemming and hawing about whether I should just finally stop watching it.  I’m glad I watched, but I’ve also decided that the best, and really only, way to watch it these days is to have zero expectations.  Literally none.  That way, I’m pleasantly surprised by songs that are awesome, lines that are funny, and character arcs that have emotional weight, like:  

• Anything Santana sings.  Only she could do Tina Turner justice (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - Naya absolutely lights up when she’s performing; she was born to perform), “Girl on Fire” was freaking awesome, and her and Sam sounded great together on “Make No Mistake (She’s Mine).”
• Santana’s cutting and hilarious snark.  The “brutal honesty that’s mistaken for being a bitch.”  Her fight with Sam.  How she just announces that she’s moving in with Rachel and Kurt rather than asking.  Mentioning the Rizzoli & Isles lesbian subtext.  
• How Brittany always sees right into Santana’s heart.
• Kurt bringing Rachel down a peg or ten.
• Kurt hating Rachel’s weird, naked boyfriend.
• Anything else Kurt.  Never have I ever hoped someone would succeed more than I hope Kurt does.  No matter what insane plot (and clothing) he’s stuck in, he’ll go down in history as one of the bravest, most interesting, most important, and most adored characters ever.
• Kurt’s British boy singing “Baby Got Back.”  Yeah, Glee ripped it off of some other cover, but it was still completely enjoyable.  Plus, I’m glad he (and Blaine and the Warblers back in the day) know they need to pull out all stops to woo Kurt.
• Sam.  I love him.  I love how from day one he’s been anything but the generic, uninteresting blonde jock.
• Unique.  I’d watch her being a diva all the live-long day.
• The boys singing “No Scrubs.”  I immediately rewatched that one.

And I can let all the things that would usually frustrate and enrage me roll off my back… ok, not really, but I can at least simmer down somewhat when I see shit like:

• Tina engaging in some SUPER sketchy, non-consensual, sexual behavior (I don’t even know what to call whatever that was that she did) with sleeping Blaine.  Dear Lord.
• Tina lusting after Blaine.  Why?  Just why?  Ryan, if you hate your own character so much, why did you create her??
• Blaine lusting after Sam.  Why can’t they be BFF?  Just a gay guy and a straight guy who are best friends.  And that is all.  
• The entire “female empowerment” concept from the Sadie Hawkins episode.  Could they have missed the entire fucking point any more?!  No matter what the dialogue is, the girls always need the boys to validate them on this show.  All the dance accomplished was empowering the girls to ask the boys straight out to validate them.
• Rachel’s fucking annoying and way-too-smooth boyfriend.  I can’t stand him.
• How Rachel has basically just turned into Lea Michele.   I have no problem with Lea, but I love Rachel.  Or at least used to.  I want to see Rachel singing and Rachel killing it at NYADA, not Lea prancing around (and, in a really strange performance, singing to Rachel).
• Kitty.  Annoying.
• The guy whose name I forget but who is the most recent winner of The Glee Project.  Useless.  
• Teen Jesus dude.  Also useless.
• The continuing joke they make out of Marley’s eating problems… are they gone?  Is she getting help?  It seemed disingenuous to begin with, and they haven’t done anything redeeming with it.
• How Ryan and Co. have apparently never heard of the words “story continuity” except when it suits them.

Sigh.  I’m just an addict.  And now with my new, lowered-all-the-way-down-to-basically-nothing expectations, I’ll probably keep watching for awhile.  Maybe I’m just under the confundus charm.  Why can’t I quit you, Glee??

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