Safety Dance was a standout, as well.

I could have done with less of Rachel's Yentl - by that I mean a shorter version - and a longer closing song, I thought it got it short shrift.

Totes second the Chris Colfer love. I adored his "A House is not a Home", as well.

I think it's time they stop giving solos to Finn -- maybe a verse here and there, but the guy just doesn't have the chops to carry an entire song and there are so many other people in that cast who deserve the opportunity to shine.

Like Mercedes. I love her voice. Although I am ambivalent about this week's "Bridge" cover, because I don't care for gospel as a genre.

I did find it interesting that the religion/spirituality episode immediately followed the Britney Spears episode.

I wish they would do a High Society episode. I have this vision of Kurt and Mercedes singing "Well Did You Evah?"

I've only seen this week's Glee to the first commercial break, so I can only say that Puck did a brilliant job on "Only the Good Die Young." But Puck has that Tin Pan Alley showmanship thing going for him, and Billy Joel is possibly the most Tin Pan Alley rocker ever (with Elton John being his only real competition, and possibly Stevie Wonder if you count Motown artists as "rockers").

While I like the idea of a High Society episode, and Kurt in particular would nail "Well Did You Evah?," I'm not sure who you build the plot around. There aren't any potential triangles at the moment. (Artie vs. Mike isn't strong enough, I don't think.)

I think it's time they stop giving solos to Finn

So much this. I actually enjoyed Corey Monteith this episode more than I have in a good long while, but his rendition of Losing My Religion was beyond bad.

I love Amber Riley's voice, but I didn't care for either of her songs this week. The Whitney song came off like an AI audition and I've heard better gospel covers of Bridge Over Troubled Waters. (Bebe and Cece Winans, for example). I felt like this version was a little shrill and sort of what people imagine church music at a a black church is like without it actually being like that.

Loved, loved Papa Can You Hear Me as a stand alone performance. I thought Lea Michele knocked it out of the park. However, I'm not sure it really worked in the story. It was kind of weird to see Rachel crooning this song to Burt and caressing his face tenderly when we've never seen them in a scene together before.

Overall, I liked the episode. There were some lovely parts(Chris Colfer singing I Wanna Hold Your Hand!) but I didn't love it.

It was kind of weird to see Rachel crooning this song to Burt and caressing his face tenderly when we've never seen them in a scene together before.

That didn't bother me. It struck me as Rachel enjoying being all caught up in the drama, but not really feeling anything for anyone else.

(Insert my standard pedantic rant about how "losing my religion" is not about losing one's religion.)

What's it about?

Lost love or unreturned or something.

losing one's religion

I vaguely remember hearing that it's an expression that means losing your sh*t, going crazy.