Glee Pilot Sneak Preview Review

I did not see Glee last night because I was busy. I watched it on the FOX website. Some insiders say that the pilot that aired was not the full pilot. Many people are raving about this show. It is from Ryan Murphy, the openly gay and crazy creator of "Nip/Tuck." The show starts out like a indie movie (doesn't help that Jane Lynch is in nit, when I first saw the promo--I thought it was a movie!), with its outspoken cartoon-ish flawed characters but it sucks you in. The stand-out characters are Rachael (Lee Michele)--the obnoxious overachiever (who happens to have two gay fathers); Kurt (Chris Colfer), the out and gay talented singer; Arty (boybander Kevin McHale), the boy in the wheelchair; Mercedes (Amber Riley) is the sassy Black girl; and of course the football player who really can sing Finn (Kyle XY's Cory Monteith). One of the lines I like is when Rachael says, "I can feel the clock ticking away, I don't want to leave High School with nothing to show for it." and Finn says "When we fought the Osama Bin Laden for the first time."

I can really feel for the teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), mainly because I am a teacher too, well a substitute teacher. I am still hopeful. And Murphy was smart to hire Jessalyn Gilsig (who played Gina in "Nip/Tuck" and Meredith in "Heroes"). She is not a bad girl here, she is just overbearing and an interesting character. She has a craft room where Will is not let in there and she doesn't want him to be a teacher but an accountant. Some great casting, characters are a little overbearing, and I hope they tone them down. Jane Lynch is just at her best really, not too overbearing and she is to what everyone expects her for now, even if everyone know their name. If you think it is just like another underdog story... then yes, it is. But you want to cheer for these freaks. The most brilliant part of the plot is when Schuester, Morrison's character plopped marijuana on him to get him in the Glee club because he is a good singer.

Also, could the pilot have a reference to "Kyle XY"? Finn mentions "Sour Patch Kids." "Kyle XY" had sour patch kids product placement all the time. Finn also has a celibate girlfriend who is into celibacy. One interesting sequence was when Will takes the Glee kids to check out the 'competition' and the camera sticks to them in a long shot when they enter the auditorium. Very rare for a TV show. Justin Gaston, current boyfriend to Miley Cyrus and Nashville Star contestant, plays one of Finn's teammates that pelts him with paint from his paint gun. Lee Michele looks familar but she hasn't been in anything else. But in that finale, seriously, was everyone in that auditorium and how freaking big is that freaking auditorium???!

"Re-capturing the Golden Days"
Terri Schuester thinks Will is trying to recapture the glory days by being a teacher, I resent that. As a teacher, I do not believe I am trying to recapture the glory days. There was no glory days. My high school days suck. I do want the kids to succeed in school, but it's because I've been there and I want the best for them. I only substitute for Elementary school students and in many of these classes, I see kids that remind me of the kids I went to school with. In fact, I am teaching at the schools I went to as a kid, so same neighborhood I grew up in and my former classmates are either in jail, dead, or in debt. So, I don't want that for them. It's a vicious cycle. Also, I stuttered as a kid, I like that Tina is Asian and stutters.

I hate those movies when Angel gives one person another person's life

I don't know how to describe this and I don't have a lot of examples because I can't remember any but I know there are more movies to illustrate my point. IMDB doesn't even have a keyword for this anyway. The movie Ice Angel (2000) had a popular hockey player who dies and comes back as a woman figure skater (who was in a coma). What I don't like about that is that the woman looses her life and some jerk takes over her life because he died too soon. As for the movie Down to Earth (2001), Chris Rock takes the life of an old rich white man---old white man ends up going to heaven and then the body dies with Chris Rock in it and then Chris Rock goes in the body of another comedian and forgets who he is and the original inhabiter of that body goes to heaven. Confusing? Well, I am not confused but I wonder who ever invited this idea for movies and TV shows, I have seen it on Sci-Fi shows too. The reason I don't like the idea is that you are living your life, you get in an accident and then someone else takes over your body living your life.

It has also been done in the show Ghost Whisperer where big boobs' husband died and then when one guy went to heaven, he scooped up and went into his body. Now, I think he's back from the dead in his own body or something.

Top 10 Biggest Douchebags of the past 6 Months

What is a Douchebag?
For me, it is a jerk or an asshole, a man who thinks he is a big shot when he really isn't anything. He is all talk and very annoying.

10. Jim Cramer, "Mad Money," he gave a sweaty excuse on the "Daily Show" after that whole to-do.
9. Gisele Bundchen, the 'Other woman,' Tom Brady's girlfriend who thinks Tom's son (son of Bridget Moynahan) is her son as well.
8. Ryan Seacrest, he might seem nice but he can be homophobic (a few years ago with Simon Cowell they would say homophobic comments to each other) and how he treated Kathy Griffin once by going the wrong way at an award show and saying "That's what I get for following a woman." He is just a consistant douchebag.
7. David Hasslehoff, and those British reality-show judges, all those judges, annoying!!!
6. Chris Brown, we are all innocent until proven guilty? For whatever reason, you just don't do that, I don't care if I don't have all the information. That just can't be done.
5. Kayne West, well, lots and lots of reasons but when South Park tore him a new one, he went off a large rant on his blog on his 'growth' and the image he presents to people.
4. Brody Jenner just looks like one and his dad...
3. Bruce Jenner (with the plastic surgery) is just a creepy step-dad to the Kardashians.
2. Spencer Pratt of "The Hills" or "The Hills are Alive" whatever it is called. The Biggest Douchebag ever! But he is not good enough to be number one on any list.
1. Dick Cheney, who goes on the news eight years after being vice-president and go blabbing and didn't even have the balls to do it in the beginning?

Yes, I know, Matthew McConaughey, Dane Cook, and countless others are candidates for douchebags but they don't bug me as much as those above. And Sarah Silverman hasn't bugged me lately, she is not on my radar right now. I have also grown accostumed of Simon Cowel now, I just ignore him, and the shit he says is only directed to the American Idol people, so that doesn't bug me as much. You know who else bugs me? Those Fox News assholes.

Desperate Housewives Season Five Finale

It was an interesting season, while last season became a bit stale and probably felt so-so because of the Writers' Strike, this season has been infused with what made the first season so great. But I think the topper was casting Neal McDonough. If you see the first episode and then last episode, they tie in perfectly. I think it is the first season of Desperate Housewives that feels full-circle, very tight. Because even the first season went into its own tangents. It is the type of show that has no other choice but to go into different tangents, as a new plot or arc is introduced and quickly lost when not popular (for example, when Zack fell in love and tried to woo Gabriele). This season had some of that, for example, one of the Twins getting a lady pregnant, even though it lasted quite a few episodes, it wasn't mentioned in the two-part finale. Anyhoo, I digress. Other than the Susan/Mike/Neal McDonough plot, the other plots in the season finale felt like a bridge to the next season. Like Lynette finding out she was pregnant, Gaby having a rival in her house in the form of Carlos' niece and Bree's new affair with Karl.

Man, Karl and Edie were the whores of the series. Edie was with Karl, Mike, Carlos and tried to get with Orson. While, Karl has been with Susan, Edie, a bunch of other women and now Bree. And as for the new kids, let me tell you that the new kids like Susan's son MJ and Gaby's girls are way more interesting than the other children in the past seasons. But am I looking forward to season 6? No, not really. Last season's cliffhanger was way more interesting and hard to top. While this cliffhanger of who Mike will marry... red-head #2 Katherine or Susan again? And what the hell happened to the gay neighbors? And for once can Lynette be centered around the main plot PLEASE! It wasn't a fluke she got an Emmy for the first season, freeze-face Bree has gotten two big plots and Susan has gotten countless, why can't Lynette be in the center of the action? She was in the center of that supermarket shoot-out and for that episode with a child molester, which could have easily been a season arc.

The Office Season Five Finale

I loved this episode "Company Picnic," it was funny and irreverent. Michael and his soul mate Holly meet again and do a skit that seemed un-funny at first which was a mix of Slumdog Millionaire and Dunder-Mifflin. Michael reveals a branch is closing, which I believe he does out of spite from being fired, then being rivals with the company and then re-hired. Holly and Michael don't talk about their relationship and don't get back together and Michael makes a touchingly sweet and very mature speech on how they will get back together one day. I loved the scenes with Phylis and also the relationship between Dwight and Jim. At the end, it is implied that Pam is pregnant. There is a rumor that the hospital scenes were filmed using the set from Scrubs, an ABC series which recently wrapped its final season. Many may think it is cliched but I personally think it will bring more conflict. Pam just started a job as a salesperson and she is not married yet, and now she is pregnant? She will get lots of flack out of the Office gang and she is planning a wedding, so the stress may get to her. So I see a very interesting arc for Jim and Pam for season six, when fans were complaining that season five didn't give them enough of an exciting plot. I barely ever think about the Office's ficitional lives but now I am wondering if Jim and Pam are going to change Jim's parents' old room into a nursery.