I credit about 90% of the enjoyment to the musical numbers... While I didn't grow super fond of any of the characters in the regular dialogue scenes, when they bust out with "You're the One that I Want" or "Don't Stop Believing" I go to the same happy place I occupied for most of Mama Mia!

It doesn't hurt that the pilot included three songs I have on iTunes.

Jane Lynch totally cracked me up as the cheerleading coach! I also liked the principal, especially when he said that the AA group would pay him "ten bucks a head!" in that delighted tone. The kids were fine, the glee club coach was sweetly naive, but it's the secondary adult characters that are making the show for me after the fun of the musical numbers.

Yes, and some of the acting is bad. Which annoys me, because I could maybe get over it for a spectacular voice (looking at you, Jennifer Hudson)

My favorite parts are the a cappella Beethoven bits in the soundtrack.

I credit about 90% of the enjoyment to the musical numbers... While I didn't grow super fond of any of the characters in the regular dialogue scenes

Matt is me. And I agree that the acting isn't all that great...except for Lynch, who plays the same character over and over, but in a way I enjoy.

Sadly, a lot of the adult characters are less interesting than the teachers on Sit Down, Shut Up which I don't even like.

And the kids? Well. I did a lot of musical theater in high school. Lived it...not so much entertained by it.

But the Journey song? LOVED.

I have mixed feelings about Glee. I enjoyed the pilot, but I felt that the character portrayals were not all that compelling. I thought the bits of humor were just fine, but the teacher's struggle (will he/won't he/harpy wife) were at once not at all clear and somewhat cliched.

Do they really lock up kids in wheelchairs in the portapotty? Really? They didn't even do that in the '70s in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (the book). Did we need it to get that bad for the footballer to make the choice that he did?

Having watched it this morning, I'm also in the "amused, but not bowled over" place. I hope the kids other than the two leads also get to shine.

Perhaps it's a little on the nose as I'm currently spending the weekend waiting to get called in for a work avalanche, but I just finished watching the first season of The Loop and absolutely love it. It's very weird how much Brett Harrison's character on Reaper has in common with his character in this though, right down to the name Sam.

Yep. The Loop was pretty funny. The second season was different since they ditched the home characters and shifted all the focus to the workplace, but it was still funny.

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