Glee - Britney/Brittany - Episode Discussion, Spoilers, & Grading

[tomalak301]

I don't like Britney Spears (Even though I did like her first two albums, when I was like 15) but I've been looking forward to this episode all summer long. It finally features my two favorite characters, and the two funniest, on the show, Santana and Brittany. Looking forward to hearing them both sing. Also, it's the season debut of Emma, and her dentist, which is a nice thing too after wondering where the heck she was last week.

The gang tries to talk Mr. Schuester into letting them tackle a Britney Spears number; Will becomes curious about Emma s new beau, Dr. Carl Howell (John Stamos).

 

[CaptainCanada]

As I was expecting from the spoilers, a lot of the musical numbers were unabashedly just the show having fun; which, hey, so long as they're good and done sparingly, I'm fine with (two of the four hallucinations have real relevance to the characters' emotional state).

Lots of focus on Brittany (S. Pierce), though mostly concentrated in the first half, which leaves it feeling slightly unbalanced. Nonetheless, yowza. Morris acquits herself well in her first time singing. And she and Naya Rivera continue to be the show's most entertaining duo.

Speaking of her, Santana was on fire tonight; she had a half a dozen great lines.

I've always appreciated Glee's willingness to have its main characters be realistically unsympathetic, but I think they're pushing it with Rachel these last two episodes. She comes across vaguely like a sociopath ("I want to be the only thing that makes you feel good about yourself."; run, Finn).

 

[Snaploud]

("I want to be the only thing that makes you feel good about yourself."; run, Finn).

Most of the women on this show are psychopaths. Rachel isn't the only one with random comments about how they only work as "losers" etc. Remember Mrs. "This relationship works because you're unhappy" or Ms. 'You're not even the father, but I'm going to pretend you are so that I can keep emasculating you' (not a quote but might as well have been)...?

By the way, Uncle Jesse came across as very creepy in this episode. Didn't anybody find it strange that he only uses general anesthesia on all his patients? Or that he doesn't have a separate anesthesiologist in the room with him? I think they should all get checked out for STDs.

 

[tomalak301]

Not one of the best episodes, but it was decent. I guess I should never allow hype to get the best of me because I was really looking forward to it and came out disappointed. The first thing that came to mind after watching this episode was "Shades of Gray" for some reason. In that episode, Riker is put under the microscope and starts having fantasies based on emotions. In this episode, the Glee kids are put under a microscope and starts having fantasies based on emotions about Britney Spears. It's almost like this was an event episode (Kind of like the whole Madonna show) and didn't really have much of a plot other than to continue updating us on where everyone is post summer. This one felt more like a fluff piece, which isn't a bad thing.

Of course I gave it a good, and there were many good things. Brittany was great of course, there was some great dialoge as usual, and the numbers weren't bad. Also, the Peramore number fit well at the end after everyone was like "What is Peramore doing in a Britney episode." I will say I'm not liking Rachael this season. She's becoming hugely annoying, and while she was probably always that way, It's really getting obvious now. As for Will and Emma, I feel like we've seen all this before. It's like in terms of relationships on this show, the writers have been put into a corner and can't get out. Hopefully they find a way.

Next week's episode looks really interesting, but like I learned about this one, don't hope for too much.

 

[Caliburn24]

Poor episode, many of the songs had little to no connection to anything which made it often feel like watching a series of music videos.

It is too soon to tell, but I'm hoping that Glee's success hasn't made the writers lazy enough to keep tacking songs onto episodes without connecting them to the plot(s) such as they are.

And dream sequence musical numbers are definitely cheating and lazy.

 

[Checkmate]

Most of the women on this show are psychopaths.

Practically everyone on the show is mentally unstable to one degree or another. Hell, they all but celebrate pedophilia on it (the most notable example being Kristen Chenoweth's character where she fucked Puck and a couple other guys in the boy's locker room to "win" their acceptance).

Most of the time I just shrug it off because it's clear the show doesn't take place in any semblance of reality and all of the characters are crude and over-the-top archetypes rather than real people. But sometimes even that acceptance doesn't stop my eye from twitching (again, as was the case with the implied shower fuckfest).

That said, I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone likes Kurt, let alone finds him even remotely sympathetic or a positive gay rolemodel. He's easily the most evil, self-centered, and cruelly manipulative character on the cast (and that's saying a lot). Which is a shame because his father is probably one of the best characters on the show, too.

 

[Mike Farley]

This was probably my least favorite episode of the show. The music wasn't well integrated. The plotlines just ran in circles. And Rachel's insecurity was really grating.

And while I'm hardly an expert on football, I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to use a "battering ram" on the field--even if it's a wheel-chair kid.

Lots of great one-lines sprinkled throughout though.

Jacob stole the episode.

 

[propita]

Brittany (however her name is spelled) has consistently some of the funniest lines of the entire show. Glad to see her featured.

And Shue is totally screwed up emotionally--which is at least realistic-ish considering.

 

[bigdaddy]

The episode was fun, but had no plot.

I like how some idiot co-host on Access Hollywood LIVE thought because it was a Brittany Spears episode that it wouldn't be too sexual for a 5 year old and a 12 year old to watch. The show was rated TV 14 I think, stupid parents have no right to bitch!

Also the line where the kids went "we grew up with Spears"... umm what?! Here songs and videos were sexual and the characters on the show would have been around 5 when she was really famous.