My Tivo didn't pick it up! Why Tivo hast thou forsaken me?!

Hec, it was 1.5 hours, so perhaps there was something with a higher priority on at 9?

::huggles dual-tuner TiVo::

Meanwhile, I'm painting hearts and stars around Raising Hope

I am so glad that at the beginning of the season, the TV was set to Fox after Glee and I was too lazy to find the clicker and change the channel. I adore Raising Hope so much. "I'm going to read more book back covers!" I'm just glad that Jimmy didn't get in trouble for breaking into the store (although I'm guessing that the fight club was also "technically" breaking into the store) and that his boss was understanding about the tea trip

It's 100% fail-y on just about every issue. For the record.

Yeah. I quit it. ftr. But I quit SPN too, and I know other people still love it, so my tolerance level is probably pretty low. I guess I just figure I deal with enough sexism and racism on a daily basis that I don't need it in my entertainment. At least not my entertainment that tries to be earnest. I somehow am willing to give a pass on shows that don't even try. But try and fail, and show runners demonstrate that they don't think they're failing? And I'm out.

I miss both shows.

But try and fail, and show runners demonstrate that they don't think they're failing? And I'm out.

Huh. Points for not trying then?

It's the transitions between when Glee feels like it's not even trying to when it is very very earnest (and vice versa) that make my head hurt. I keep watching, but I'm not really invested.

I don't mean to bust Liese's chops. Glee is the least consistent show I've ever watched. From scene to scene, from episode to episode. It's so incredibly tone deaf at times, and will frequently deform characters for a cheap joke or a plot point.

The thing that bugs me the most is that its consistently bitchy tone is reactionary and judgmental. It wants to be all about outsiders but it constantly reinforces the status quo. Guess what Glee writers? Not everybody wants to be popular in high school. If Daria and Jane were at this school you'd really get a more successful critique of the social order.

I'm confused about what Santana was trying to do. She thought that everybody would vote for her if she got Kurt back? Why?

What I found weird (and I realize I say this as a non-watcher) is that weird a-capella-esque "doo doo doo" background music during Scenes That Seemed Important. Like OCD Teacher deciding to take her Prozac. The music, because sort of bouncy filler music, totally undercut what I assume was meant to be A Scene About An Important Decision. (I think it was also playing during the meeting with Kurt, Big Gay Larry [I'm sorry I can't remember all their names; I feel like Allyson with LotR], and their fathers.)

She thought that everybody would vote for her if she got Kurt back? Why?

Because everyone loves Kurt? Except Big Gay Larry? Who probably secretly actually does love Kurt, since that's the way TV shows work.

Also, unrelatedly, I am really amused at my hypocrisy: I have NO PROBLEM suspending my disbelief at, say, Oklahoma. I'm down with the cowboys and ranchers singing and dancing and whatnot. Sure. All the Territory folks sing, right?

But I cannot get past the singing in the hallways of school in Glee and -- really, I seriously snorted during this scene -- AT THE MALL? I have NO idea why I can't get past that when I'm okay with ranchers and cowboys singing. Or, you know, Jesus (in 2 different musicals, even). I totally get that I'm inconsistent and a hypocrite, but the contrived singing is what completely puts me off Glee. I might watch it if they didn't sing. Which, I realize, would kind of make it not the show that it is.