I haven’t watched Glee. Elizabeth has, and while I have no idea what point she is at in the narrative, I’ve half-heard enough of it to form a completely ill-informed opinion. My conclusion?
Glee is a show that hates women.
Almost every principal female character is a scheming, manipulative, deceptive bitch. The male characters, however, are almost the polar opposite: decent, upstanding men, valiantly overcoming the problems besetting them; problems created largely by the bitchy women in their lives. There are exceptions, but they are thin on the ground. The only half-bitchy guy in the show is Gay Cliché, while the token non-bitchy woman is OCD Redhead, who appears to have been rewarded for her niceness by a lack of screen time.
What’s more, the writers seemed to only be able to create a single male lead character – so they made two of him. Both the teacher and his protégé have significant others who are deceiving them about their child, have other women on the side that they want to get into the panties of, and boast unwanted admirers willing to do patently ridiculous things in pursuit of them.
Lastly, the show hates musicians. As I said, I’ve only heard bits of the show via Elizabeth’s mid-range computer speakers, but I can tell even from across the room that every performance is Autotuned to within an inch of its life. I’m not even a musician and it sounds offensive.
And that’s what you missed by Not Watching Glee!
