Post by Jeanne Sager
Remember the Glee we all fell in love with four seasons ago? The show with the band of misfits in the choir room who sent us scurrying for iTunes? It's baaaaack. The season four premiere was dubbed "The New Rachel," but it might as well be the new Glee. Graduation and the inevitable mass exodus of New Directions talent have forced Mr. Schue to hold open auditions, and new blood is flooding into McKinley's offbeat extracurricular. Trying to stretch out the same old Finchel love story into college and making it a main storyline wasn't going to work, and the return to the roots of the show comes off as the perfect way to bring us back into McKinley. Picture a Rachel Berry who isn't a whiny, stuck-up beeyotch. A Mercedes who is just looking for acceptance. A Puck with hidden depths and you get ...![]()
Remember the Glee we all fell in love with four seasons ago? The show with the band of misfits in the choir room who sent us scurrying for iTunes? It's baaaaack. The season four premiere was dubbed "The New Rachel," but it might as well be the new Glee. Graduation and the inevitable mass exodus of New Directions talent have forced Mr. Schue to hold open auditions, and new blood is flooding into McKinley's offbeat extracurricular. Trying to stretch out the same old Finchel love story into college and making it a main storyline wasn't going to work, and the return to the roots of the show comes off as the perfect way to bring us back into McKinley. Picture a Rachel Berry who isn't a whiny, stuck-up beeyotch. A Mercedes who is just looking for acceptance. A Puck with hidden depths and you get ...