What once brought Glee...

The first time I watched an episode of "Glee", I actually wasn't that impressed. I felt like the storyline was unbelievable and pretty poor in general, but somehow the music and the performing dragged me in. I didn't really start watching it regularly until the second half of the first season. Suddenly I began laughing at many of Sue Sylvester's strange comments and the performances started wowing me even more. I guess I was hooked on Glee, as most people in America are right now. I followed it every week, but since the beginning of the current season, the show has really let me down.

Each new episode began to be more and more risque and almost raunchy at times, but I kept watching hoping it would get better. Sadly, so far it hasn't. Glee was once something I couldn't wait to watch after a long day at school, but now I hesitate to watch in fear that I'm going to be let down by what I see on the screen. I decided that I needed to choose whether I was going to continue watching "Glee" or not. This was hard because the show had once given me lots of joy, and like i said, the music is pretty awesome. But it hit me, I was rationalizing "Glee" the same way people sometimes rationalize listening to inappropriate music. The oh so well known line of, "The beat is so good. I only like the song for the beat. I don't even really listen to the words." Now I'm saying, "Yeah, the story isn't the best and it is getting kinda out of hand lately, but the music is so good!" Don't get me wrong, I'm not condemning anyone who watches Glee. I love Glee, but right now I just don't love the direction they're taking the show.

So thanks to the strength of my friend for saying no first, I've also decided to stop watching Glee for now. I'll be more than happy to watch the episode if someone previews it for me and assures me it's good, so for those of you faithful Glee fans - keep me posted!  But I figure since it was the music that I loved in the first place anyway, I can always listen to the songs on itunes without watching the show. I hope the show does in fact get better, so I can once again find glee in "Glee".