Glee Recap: Season 2, Episode 14 “Blame It On The Alcohol”
(02/22/2011)
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Glee Replay: "Blame It On The Alcohol"
So last week’s episode of Glee was an hour that I loved for putting the focus back on the
McKinley High gang, but many others didn’t find it nearly as interesting as I
did. To quote a fellow fan of the show who disagreed with my recap: “I don’t
know what it is, but Glee is becoming very boring.” To say this startled me is
an understatement: I watched again and again, and maybe around the sixth or
seventh time, I saw through my Gleek goggles to see what people may have already
realized. Glee’s really hit a point
where it’s been been simply coasting on what it knows works.
Now. Glee can
exist with creating all the gimmicks in the world, and the show may never die.
Tribute episodes, duets, drunk episodes, fine. While it’s churning out weekly
universes and scenarios where one thing happens and it’s THE MOST IMPORTANT
THING EVER IN THIS WEEK OF ALL TIME!, Glee
will work. You can say it’s allowed to have some bad episodes. It’s allowed to
not make sense. In all honesty, it never really has. It’s allowed to be completely unethical, stupid, senseless at
times- in fact, it’s what makes the great episodes of Glee so fantastic, when those silly storylines are forgotten and
everything comes together into one incredible moment. The one thing, the
single, solitary thing that Glee is
never allowed to be is boring. When it’s boring is when it’s done. (Which is
true with any show, really, but when a show is as high-profile and high-budget
as Glee, not only can it not be
allowed to be boring, it can’t afford it, either.)
I can’t truly believe it’s headed in that direction yet, but
after tonight’s episode, I could see the potential Glee has to become very redundant. Although tonight, the gimmick is
alcohol; honestly, I’m not even gonna speak on the validity of an alcohol
awareness episode because I think being drunk is awesome. But while it was a
hilarious chance for the Glee kids get drunk together and provide some of the
funniest moments Glee has ever had,
there was a lot in terms of conflict that were clearly recycled from the past. I
enjoyed the Kurt-Blaine-Rachel bit and the exploration of Blaine’s possible bisexuality
for what it was, but it was absolutely unfairly shortchanged by shoving it all into
one episode. And that’s just about all that was different with tonight: Once
again, Kurt and Rachel find themselves up in arms over the same guy. Once
again, Kurt and his dad conflict over Kurt’s sexuality. Once again, Sue is bent
on destroying Will. And least surprising, once again, Will is still not over Emma. The problem wasn't necessarily that any of this was bad. I actually have a weird affinity for Kurt and Rachel's frenemyship, and Mike O' Malley has yet to let me down as Burt. The problem is just that it’s all happened before.
Which is really unfortunate, because as well as certain
stories are going (I’m a big fan of Puck and Lauren, which wasn’t featured at
all tonight) I honestly feel like there are so many new things the show could be doing. For the first time
tonight, Sue Sylvester actually bored me. It frustrates me that there’s quite a
few characters the show has put on the back burner (Mercedes, Tina, Mike Chang)
in exchange for some hot new substitutes (Brittany, Sam, Santana), that bring
comedy to the show but not necessarily any depth.
The only kid the show has really dove into this year has
been Kurt and all the problems in his world. But I can only watch glossy-eyed
Kurt so many times before I stop caring as much, and tonight was that night for
me where I've stopped. I think the show owes its fair share to other students to have the
opportunity to take Glee in a new
direction (HA! Awesome, that pun wasn’t even on purpose!). I still stand by
last week being a great episode, and this was definitely a level under it. But
Lea Michele got puked on. And I will always love this week for that.
Grade: C+
The Songs (watch them here with our new weekly Glee Replay)
Rachel sings a song about her headband. (?) - C-
Rachel and Blaine perform "Don't You Want Me" (Blaine
sounded amazing!) - B+
New Directions perfoms "Blame It" - B+
Will and Bieste perform "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One
Beer" - B-
New Directions performs "Tik Tok" - B+
The One-Liners
"'Sup, my little hot jewish american princess?"
"Tell him yourself, I ain't no Pony Express!"
"Who told you your hairstyle was cool? Geronimo?"
"Your face... tastes awesome."
"A reminder: I owns that guppie mouth!"
"I sat through that whole Brokeback Mountain... from
what I gather, something went down in the tent."
"Being thrown up on... just does something to a person."
"And now performing the hit single Tick and also Tock,
by rapper K-e-Dollar Sign-Ha... the New Directions."
"And there is simply but one person to blame: the
alcoholic teen vomit fetishist Will Schuster."
"How about you crack a Four Loko, Count Boozy Von
Drunkaton."
"But if you don't drink, what will you have to live
for?"
"I can't believe what you did to my body, I used to
have abs!"
The Rest
Beiste can talk-sing! Awesome!
The whole Schuester bit, I’ll give a bye this week. Normally
I hate when the show even touches him, but everyone was a mess this week, so it’s
fine. Didn’t know Will had a drinking problem from drinking one time. Whatever.
People I need to party with NOW: Darren Criss and Naya
Rivera.
HOLY F*CKING BALLS, HEATHER MORRIS HAS THE SICKEST F*CKING
BODY EVER. Further, she owned Ke$ha. And was actually good looking doing it.
If you watch well enough during the Ke$ha number, you can
notice how the camera used angles and lights to make the kids look like better
dancers than they actually are. Didn’t happen with last week’s “Somebody To
Love”, I must say. Mark Salling and Chord Overstreet are just AWFUL.
I wonder how many extra spin-the-bottle matchups were shot
but never made it to air.
No new Glee next week. What am I gonna do??
Apparently the next episode is called Sexy. Hell yes.
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