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Episode 4.17: “Guilty Pleasures”
(Spoilers lurk below.) When I first became a fan of Glee, I described it as a guilty pleasure. Around the middle of season two, when the series really began to pick up, I dropped that descriptor...
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Episode 4.20: “Lights Out”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This episode features a blackout whose length is only matched by how symbolic it is. The blackout is actually fairly unique in Glee terms in that, while it provides an obvious...
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Episode 5.01: “Love Love Love”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Well, it’s the beginning of a season that is destined to be indelibly colored by the death of Cory Monteith. But you wouldn’t know it (mostly) by the season premiere, which is as...
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Episode 5.02: “Tina in the Sky with Diamonds”
(Spoilers lurk below.) First of all, this episode does not contain a performance of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which I’m afraid I can only count against it. Aside from that, this was another…...
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Episode 5.03: “The Quarterback”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Glee has never felt the need to adhere strictly to the rules of television writing. On several occasions, they’re produced episodes that were little more than long music videos....
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Episode 5.09: “Frenemies”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Well Glee is finally back and, just as the prophets fortold, so am I. You’d think that after a two-month hiatus Glee would be able to come back with something truly...
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Episode 5.10: “Trio”
(Spoilers lurk below.) What do I even say about this mess? Combined with last week’s “Frenemies,” and with nationals suddenly only a week away, Glee since the hiatus feels like it’s trying to just...
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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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Episode 5.18: “Back-Up Plan”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Last time, I pondered what the show was going to do with Rachel now that she has achieved her dream. Well, they didn’t take long to answer. In “Back-Up Plan,” Rachel has become...
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