Glee

Glee. Season 1. (2009). Fox Studios.

Review:

Glee is an hour-long prime time musical television show which airs on the Fox network. The show tells the story of the New Directions high school glee club, as it is taken over by Spanish teacher Will Schuester, a new director who attempts to revive the program. The glee club is seen as a direct rival to the school's award winning cheer leading program, run by overbearing coach Sue Sylvester. Will is faced with the task of uniting a ragtag bunch of students while avoiding the scheming plots of Sue Sylvester. The show is a mix of comedy and drama and deals with touchy subjects like drug use and sexuality comically, yet frankly.   

Opinion:

I had a hard time watching this show... The preponderance of stock characters, some of which are offensively stereotypical (such as effeminate and predatory gay characters), turned me off from the very beginning. I think that the creators were trying to use these stereotypes to comment on social issues, but their attempts falls flat resulting in a show that is only occasionally funny and more often annoying.

Ideas:
Use this show as a way to discuss harmful stereotypes with tweens.