Movieline Forecasts Glee's Second-Season Character Arcs
To paraphrase The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Cliffhangers? Glee don't need no stinkin' cliffhangers! The season finale of America's current obsession felt like a series finale with the way it neatly wrapped up all the plot strands that had accumulated throughout the season: New Directions was canceled, but then saved; Rachel and Finn got back together; Quinn had her baby and gave it away; Other Asian had a line of dialogue. Where can the show go from here?! Movieline breaks out the crystal ball and predicts what lies ahead for the denizens of William McKinley High School.
· Rachel
How she ended this season: Rachel didn't get her mom back -- see you on Broadway, Idina Menzel -- but she did reunite with Finn and sing a killer rendition of "Faithfully." So, break even.
What lies ahead next season: Here's a fact that Glee conveniently forgets too often: Lea Michele is pretty hot. And that means Rachel is too, even if the show spends a lot of time saying she isn't. Figure that to change in season two, as Rachel will use her obvious hotness to become a Queen Bee at the school and -- basically this plot will just follow Mean Girls. See you at prom, Rach!
· Finn
How he ended this season: With Rachel by his side and Mr. Schuester in his life as a father figure. And Mike O'Malley's Burt Hummel as another father figure.
What lies ahead next season: Finn has been too goody-two-shoes for too long. And since Cory Monteith seems to possess a reservoir of dark and twisty gravitas that hasn't been tapped, how about Finn gets himself an Afterschool Special-approved drug problem? Think of the lessons!
· Mr. Schuester
How he ended this season: Will kept the glee club, professed his undying love for Emma and sorta reconciled with Sue, all while singing "Over the Rainbow."
What lies ahead next season: Certainly not his ex-wife Terri; if Jessalyn Gilsig comes back for a second season, I will literally pass out. No, figure Will to earnestly continue to teach his kids while simultaneously wooing Emma against the advances of Uncle Jesse. Also, you can bet on more white rapping.
· Puck
How he ended this season: Becoming a new dad gave Puck perspective -- even if it was just for a few minutes. He also got to sing a key part on "Don't Stop Believin'" and busted out his rhythm guitar for "Over the Rainbow."
What lies ahead next season: If Finn is going bad, then Puck has to go good. And nothing like the promised fundamentalist Christian character to put a former bad boy on the straight and narrow. Think: George Michael and Ann, but with a mohawk.
· Quinn
How she ended this season: By finally getting rid of her fake baby bump!
What lies ahead next season: For Dianne Agron's sake, hopefully something more significant than what she had to do during the second half of season one. Maybe a dalliance with an older guy?
· Kurt
How he ended this season: Fabulously holding hands with new lady BFFs Mercedes and Quinn.
What lies ahead next season: Ryan Murphy has already revealed Kurt is getting a boyfriend, so there's that. And really, that should be more than enough.
· Mercedes
How she ended this season: On a high note -- literally.
What lies ahead next season: More Jennifer Hudson-like belting, more bonding with Quinn, and -- if Murphy needs her to do something scandalous -- another body issue.
· Brittany and Santana
How they ended this season: As comic relief and not-really-fully-realized villainesses.
What lies ahead next season: Heather Morris and Naya Rivera are being promoted to full-time cast members so expect some key relationships to form. My nomination: Morris' Brittany and Harry Shum Jr.'s "Other Asian." Their combined dancing prowess alone would cause sparks!
· Artie and Tina
How they ended this season: Holding hands, making plans and still giddy over their first kiss.
What lies ahead next season: Would a show like Glee be complete without a birth control episode? Nope. And there's only one thing that could make it even more salacious: Wheelchair sex! Just ask Friday Night Lights.
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Noooooooooo. Brittany should be with Santana. The "satanic" lesbian couple! 😀
I just really hope Idina Menzel comes back for more. I felt sorry for Rachel.. She desperately wanted to connect with her mom and it didn't happen. They both seemed awckard with each other, but in a good way. And I want more Lea & Idina's duets!
Also, the producers should bring Kristin Chenoweth for another April Rhodes'episode. She was a-m-a-z-i-n-g in the role. And that voice.. Give us more!
To say Lea Michele is hot means one of two things. Chris Rosen is homosexual (nothing wrong with that) or is blind (nothing wrong with that either). He could be both (still nothing wrong with that).
If Lea Michele is 'hot' then Sara Jessica Parker is Grace Kelly reincarnated and Lady Gaga is subtle.
To each his own Allan. Though I'm pretty sure there are many who would agree with me.
Yes Chris, there are many people who would agree with you that she is hot. Here is a small sampling of those people:
(1) the girl who played Blossom, Mayim Bialik;
(2) the Ewoks of Endor;
(3) Roman Polanski;
(4) the cast of Avenue Q;
(5) Hellen Keller from the great beyond;
(6) Lea Michele's immediate family;
(7) Lea Michele's agent;
(8) I'm also starring a picture of Tracy Morgan on the right side of my screen. He would probably think she's hot as well. I don't know what that means.
Very truly yours,
Allan
Why Roman Polanski? She's much, much too old for him. By like 10 years.
I agree with you Chris! I think Allans idea of hot is one of the Hollywood clone girls, the Kims and Megans, Lindseys and whatever who can barely scrape together a sliver of talent or a brain cell to share amongst the lot of them. Lea Michelle has talent that comes along very rarely and that alone would make her hot, but she adds to that the dark luxuriant look of the Bronx Italian, with a little Spanish and New York krasavitse thrown into the pot. She is there with Barbra Sreisand, Bette Midler, Maria Callas, and dare I say it, Idina Menzel for talent and as for hotness...Isobel Adjani (before the nose job), Monica Bellucci, Isabella Rossillini. Lea has her own look which will get more beautiful as she ages, unlike the FHM hot 100 brigade who will mostly end up looking like leather handbags with about as much charisma as a gymnastic tortoise troop on a trampoline.
I just hope that Fox does not burn her out with their obsessive desire to cash in on the one hit show that they have not cancelled before it has got off the ground.
Per her birth certificate she is old for him, but she's tiny and petite and he could use his directorial imagination while avoiding further legal entanglements.
Dear Disko Troop:
I admire your passionate defense of the frumpy girl next door. I cannot and will not take that from you or my new friend, Chris Rosen. You are a fan of what I would describe as the "natural" beauty. So was my father, hence my current physical state that compelled me, for the better of Los Angeles to move out of the city and to Calabasas.
Any man who uses Babs and Better Midler as examples of what's attractive has his heart in the right place or is living on a Siberian outpost researching the migratory patterns of buffalo. Kathy Najimy just called and wants to take you out on a date.
Regards,
Allan
What an asshat..."I don't think she's attractive [ie. she doesn't give me a boner] and anyone who thinks she is attractive is weird or gay or dumb" or "You have to look all the all other BORING, cookie cutter Hollywood It-Girls [the Jessica Biels and others of their dull ilk] to be 'attractive'"
It's also a little anti-semitic.
You are out of control if you are going to play the anti-semitic card based on a message board post that's tongue in cheek.
First, I don't even know she's Jewish. Whether she is or not should not be relevant to a silly blog post. I hope you are you insinuating that Jewish people should be free of critiques based on their appearance simply because they practice a specific religion. So if she was protestant or Hindu it would be okay but if she's Jewish then commenting on her looks are off limits? If that's what you really think then you are what as you eloquently put it, the "asshat."
Dear Allan,
I am all for everyone having their own opinion, and their own views on beauty, but you sound like the most vulgar person on earth. If people don’t agree with your idea of beauty you just tear them down and tell them they are wrong. You say “natural beauty”, as if it venomous. You say it as an insult. It is almost as if you think that the only beautiful people are stick skinny girls with big boobs and a nice ass, like most of the girls in Hollywood.
Personally, I think that beauty is not all about appearance. In fact,
I think that appearance is only a very small portion of what true beauty actually is. I don’t really care how skinny someone is, or how nice their body or their face is, if they are arrogant, pompous assholes, they are the most unattractive people in the world.
The reason that I like Glee is because they don’t discriminate people based on their body shape or appearance. The show has people of all body shapes and sides. It is a positive show for teens and children as it teaches them that they should not be ashamed of what their appearance, they should embrace it.
As for Lea Michele, I think she is a very talented singer and performer. She is unique looking and real. She seems like a nice and sweet girl who has not let show business go to her head. She is not afraid to embrace who she is, therefore I think that she is a very attractive person.
Hi Allan,
If Kathy Najimy called to ask me out, send me the number because I am there already. I can't imagine how you can have been exiled from LA for having a father with good taste.......Oh sorry, of course I can, we are talking LA!
From my vantage point, here amongst the Siberian buffalo herds, I can see that some people wear blinkers to stop themselves being contaminated by anything beyond bimboland. When I give Babs and Bette as examples it is because Lea Michelle has that same raw talent and gets the power to the blacktop, none of this whinnying like Ms Carey or miming on stage like our beloved Ms Spears. When she goes on stage it is like a tidal wave coming up the aisle. I believe the New York Post theatre critic only needed one word...Awesome.
Happily we all define hotness differently, Dianna Agron is as pretty as a picture, but when Idina Menzel and Lea Michelle started singing from Les Mis together , that buckled my knees, and set the heart in motion...And such beautiful eyes! I call that HOT.
I really appreciate everyone's passion on this subject although some of the name calling directed at me I could have done without. This is the most comments I've seen posted on Movieline, maybe they should hire me. I hope people realize ALL my posts were meant to be a joke, especially the one about my mother. My mother is a beautiful woman and I love her dearly. If a reader couldn't get the joke once I made that comment your ability to take a joke is completely missing.
Also, please do not forget, this is Moveline.com, an entertainment blog, not a symposium on feminism or the female form. For those wishing to get into a serious discussion about what the West considers the ideal female and the misogyny that this construction entails, I direct you to vasser.edu, smith.edu or motherjones.com. Lighten up friends.
Thank you and good day.
Haha, Allan, you win 😉 She isn't hot - wildly talented though. And she's not ugly either.
Great stuff ici.