Glee: Season 3 Review

Full disclosure: I started writing this back in August, when I first watched the season.  I was so frustrated by the end of my Netflix sessions with the season, that I abandoned the review to focus on anything else.  I also hit kind of a writers-lull, so I didn’t get around to starting this thing again, until I begrudgedly re-watched the season last month.  Basically, what it had boiled down to was that I finished watching the latest seasons of “Archer” and “Parks & Rec” and thought I’d give this season another shot.  The second time was not the charm.

This show started off with so much promise.  Then it kind of veered off into lacklusterness late in the first season.  By the time the second season took off, it was clear the writers had an agenda and used kids as their pawns – like any good liberal would.  This season isn’t worse than the second, but it’s no better.  The show isn’t as agenda-driven, but it’s kind of descended into irrelevance.   Plus, for a show aimed at teens or younger, it’s very dirty and features themes totally inappropriate for kids not yet old enough to understand them.  Granted, they’re being brainwashed this crap every day in internment camps, er, um, public schools.  But what started as a relatively smart show with good music, has devolved into after-school specials on losing your virginity, learning Spanish to benefit your future, bullying-induced suicide prevention, teenage marriage, texting while driving, devaluing Christianity, and transgender promotion. 

I’m pretty sure that I continue to watch the show because of three possible scenarios:

1. I’m a masochist.
2. It’s such a train-wreck that I just have to watch.
3. I’m in love with Santana and Rachel.

You be the judge. (After the jump...)

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President Obama's Inagural Address

I’m so surprised that this speech is actually on time.  That’s the first time in four years that’s happened. 

So it begins.  Another four years of this pathetic excuse for a president. (Technically, it began yesterday, but I digress.  I wish I could say with confidence, "Only four years left."  But we'll see if he stomps on the twenty-second amendment the way he's stomping on the second.)

Now, Chuck Shuemer is introducing the president, right after the swearing in.  “Barack H. Obama”  Really?

I really don’t want to be here watching this.

“O-bam-a! O-bam-a! O-bam-a!”  Oh, so this is a campaign rally.

Oh my goat.  I loathe listening to this man speak.  He’s such a pompous [animal that represents his party]. 

Oh, there’s Michelle with her new bangs.  Quite frankly, that’s the bigger story here.

I’m bored.

Fascinating.  He’s talking about fighting the tyranny of a king, while behind the scenes, he’s setting himself up to be one.  Hypocrite. 

Again, I laugh.  He says that society’s ills can’t be solved by government alone.  Yet, his party claims they can be.

And there’s a shout out to his union buddies: teachers and construction workers.

I’m bored.

“A decade of war is now ending.  An economic recovery has begun.”  Really?  What recovery?!

Oh, and there’s the obligatory class warfare statement.  Speaking of which – because I’m really easily distracted right now – what ever happened to Occupy Wall Street?  Why are they no longer on the radar?

Just looking at him makes me want to throw things at the television – and I love my television.

He just talked about reducing the deficit.  Really?  You clearly don’t care about it, so why talk about it?

I’m bored.  I really don’t know why I’m watching this.  Do I have a psycho-masochist problem?  Do I need to see a psychiatrist?  Probably, after this speech.

And there’s the obligatory “climate change” shout out.  He’s saying the science is irrefutable.  [Malarkey].  

He’s still babbling on about it.  No doubt we’ll be seeing all kinds of executive orders pertaining to this in the months to come.

Now he’s doing a shout-out to the armed services.  And, now he’s switching gears to diplomacy.  “Not because we are naïve…”  Yes you are.  Or, maybe you’re just a pacifist.  Or a communist.  Or all the above.

Is Justice Scalia snoozing?  Don’t blame him if he is. 

He keeps using “we the people”.  I find it fascinating that “we the people” only threw half our support behind this man.  The other half wanted someone else. 

Now we’re moving on to MLK-invocation. 

Women’s pay and gay rights get the biggest cheer?  Seriously? 

Now we move on to immigration reform. 

And I think this is a set-up for gun control.  Maybe not.

“…or substitute spectacle for politics.”  Isn’t that what’s going on right now?

“…an oath to God and country, not party…”  Whatever.  You’re a slave to your ideology.

So…voicing our opinions is a “birthright”?  Oh, that’s unless it’s against your policies.  Then it’s racist.

And now it’s over.  Only about 20 minutes.  This may go down as his best speech yet – due only to its length.

Oh, Kelly Clarskon.   You’re beautiful, but why did you get suckered in to this?  At least she’s not using a teleprompter.   Three minute song.  Beautiful.  Much better than the speech I just sat through. 

And now they’re moving on to some gay Latin poet.  I’m done commentating on the proceedings.  (Oh, I suppose that makes me some racist homophobe.  I don’t care.  This pomp and circumstance was for naught.)

This was a waste of my time.  And yours too.  I apologize.  

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