Glee

I thought it was time to write about another of my favourite TV-series. This time I get inspired to write about Glee after watching the latest episode. But the thought was that in this post I was going to introduce you to the show, not talking about the latest episode, so here goes:

Glee started to air in 2009  and is now in its 4th season. The show got a lot of viewers from the beginning but now I think it mostly is teenagers and young adults that is interested because the show itself is about teenage life, high school and being different.

Yes, it is the being different, an outcast or an underdog that from the beginning is the main theme in the show. A group of these not so popular people starts to hang out through the schools glee club and some of the more popular kids, that wouldn't even speak to them before, joins as well (not everyone voluntarily). In the beginning the difference in the group leads to hardships, fights and disagreements but eventually Mr. Schuester, the Glee club director gets the group to work together trough music.

Yes, the show is a musical, but not in the mossy kind of way. The main point in Glee is the story and then the add the music to fit. In the beginning it got me thinking about Disney and how they in there animations add the element of music to get the story to evolve. Glee is a lot like that, singing about being different, expectations, love and hardships as a way to develop and for me this is really really interesting. 

But on of the most interesting parts in the series isn't the singing or dancing, even if the cast does that really well, no it is the intrigue when you put a lot of different people in the same group and how the people you at least expected to see together becoming friends and gets a deeper understanding of each other, something that they never even expected to understand before.  In Glee these individuals starts to form a group despite if they are cheerleaders, gay, nerds, divas or have disabilities and is stuck in a wheelchair, and It makes me happy and hopeful to see scenes like that. 

Somewhere I heard that Glee has made the nerd the new cool, and maybe that is somewhat true. Thinking about it you can see an wave of glasses, suspenders, bow-ties and intelligent getting the spotlight, but I can't possible say that Glee is the reason for this, it could also be the other way around. Either way it is something new for the industry and for me I think it is something good. The show has a good message and if kids and teenagers can see on TV that it is okey to be different then I cant see any harm in that. And in the mean time I will be entertained.