I've been seeing a lot of people talking about how they can rewatch Glee and how it's their comfort show. I can't do that. I don't know if it's because I was an original watcher and my favorite character was Mercedes. I don't know if it's because I loved Samcedes so much and the lack of attention it got at the time and the tremendous amount of hate that it and Amber got because of it makes it hard to rewatch. I don't know if it's the fact that 3 of the main characters aren't alive anymore. I honestly still haven't watched a full episode because Naya's death hurt me so much.

I hate the way Amber was treated during her time on the show. Certain jokes that people can laugh at now still don't sit right with me because of the in real time hate that Amber got for it. The tots jokes aren't funny neither are the Unique confusion jokes. Maybe it's the fact that Lea made most of the cast miserable and that Ryan was an enabler.

He was being hella aggressive and could have said what he wanted to much better. Also telling Quinn she has to stop playing the victim? Will let's Rachel play victim almost whenever and get away with it but when Quinn is being manipulated into making a video for Sue's campaign Will actually says something? I hate how this show constantly tries so hard to make Quinn the villain like yeah she has her moments but so does every other character yet Quinn has it so bad compared to Rachel or Santana.

Will sucks and although he clearly loves his students, after all of the shit he let's pass and how he talked to Quinn he shouldn't have been a teacher.

Oh let's not forget how Glee tries to get us to like Will and root for him into making him seem like a victim and a good guy even though he has cheated on Emma, ruined her relationships and treats her like shit sometimes.

I don't understand how Will lets Rachel get away with sending someone to a cr@ckh0use and has let her act way more childish than Quinn but when Quinn, someone who is actually hurt and probably has trauma from the stuff she has been through e.g. her father guilt tripping her, her mom not standing up for her, having a baby, putting said baby up for adoption and straight up just having a crappy year, shes punished?

Rachel will act like a brat if she doesn't even get one solo yet Will let's her act like that (except for one time but she still continued her behaviour 🙄)

Also I hate how Will only seems to punish or gets mad at those who stand up to him or reject his ideas like that one time Kurt wanted New Directions to perform Britney Spears songs and spoke up to Will for how wrong he was to not perform Britney because of his biases and although yes Kurt could have said things better I think this really shows how shit Will is of a teacher. He sent Kurt to the office but not any of the kids who physically fought each other, the kids who slushied New Directions and he didn't do a lot when Rachel sent someone to a cr@ckh0use except scorned her.

The more I rewatch this series the more I realize how in the wrong Will is and it's sad because i feel like in the beginning he was kind of in the right but later on hes just a total jerk to his students and others around him.

I like characters that have faults but I don't like how this behavior never seems to be called out and when it is they paint the person who tries to speak out against him as the villain and the person we should be booing when in fact Will Shuester is just a crappy person and a crappy teacher.

Also in case anybody asks when I mention that Quinn gets it worse than Santana and Rachel (especially Rachel) I am mostly talking about how she is constantly painted as a villain and a bad guy yet Rachel is absolutely awful and gets away with it when they should be showing us the consequences for her actions and Santana is just your outspoken bitch character who is constantly a not so great person while they actually try to make Quinn likeable but constantly try to make her a fully bad person when she really isn't.

I believed in your confusion You were so completely torn It must've been that yesterday Was the day that I was born There's not much to examine There's nothing left to hide You really can't be serious If you have to ask me why I say goodbye

This song makes absolutely no sense in the context of the episode.

Finn and Blaine sang it as a duet. Finn was watching Rachel in her element. She was working hard to become a performer, which is what he'd always known that she wanted to be. There had never been any doubt that Rachel wanted to be a Broadway actress. She was smiling and looking at him from time to time to make sure he's still there. She was thrilled to see him – four months after he had taken her to the train station instead of to their wedding. No voice or choice in the matter – an 18-hour train ride, alone. The day she had been looking forward to for months – and she was suddenly single and alone. No matter what we think of Rachel as a person, this was a terrible thing to do to her. And when Finn came back after four months of no contact, she welcomed him with open arms. She tried to get him to sing with her. She didn't want Brody to sing with her. She wanted Finn. She told him that she loved him, and he threw that love in her face. He was angry with her that she had even considered moving on. He acted like she had cheated on him. This song choice reinforced that. Of course, Rachel had to ask why Finn was angry and was calling it off with her when she thought it had been over for four months.

Blaine and Kurt had been talking on the phone, texting, Skyping, watching TV while Skyping, and staying in touch the whole two weeks that Kurt had been in NYC. It seemed like Blaine had joined about ten clubs. He won the senior class president election. How much free time could he have had on his hands to be that lonely? Even after Kurt told him that he had to postpone (not cancel) their afternoon phone call, Blaine tried to call him back. And when Kurt didn't answer (because he was presumably in the meeting that he had alluded to when he postponed their conversation), Blaine felt so torn up that he thought Kurt was "done with him"? It hadn't been more than a couple of hours since he had spoken to Kurt, who had reassured him and said he was looking forward to seeing him. And then Blaine started to sing this song, which accuses his lover of coming and going? Kurt had been there for him the whole two weeks. A couple of missed phone calls while Kurt was working did not equate to being ignored or toyed with.

I don't know who I'm kidding Imagining you care

Both Finn and Blaine were imagining that they had been wronged in some way. Finn had set Rachel free, and then got upset that she was soaring when he came back. Blaine sent Kurt off to NYC as well, and also was seemingly upset that Kurt was starting to fly. He was upset that Kurt was living his life without him by his side. (I know this was done for the drama of it, but honestly, Blaine's parents had the money for Dalton. They let him transfer to McKinley. Why didn't Blaine just ask to transfer to a boarding school in NYC or why didn't he take extra classes over the summer between S2 and S3 to be able to graduate with Kurt?)

I’m rewatching glee and Malrey getting suspended for not wearing her costume has always bugged me. But I just saw the episodes Katy or Gaga and The end of Twerk in a row and it created a clear picture of the double standard of William ‘creepy man’ Schuester. I mean there are a lot of problems with The end of Twerk, and Mr Schue’s behaviour in that but Im putting that aside for now because I want to talk about two specific scenes:

What Marley says, in my opinion, is completely fine and kind of reflects some of the values of glee club. A lot of the times the show has mentioned and doubled down on the fact that these kids are outsiders, even going as far as to perform a song called ‘The Outcasts’ written by Marley in one of the episodes. The fact that Mr Schue can't put aside his annoyance or agenda for the week to pay tribute to the idea that its ok to be yourself and only do what your comfortable with shows how close minded and inconsiderate he is (it could also be down to bad writing and tbh it most likely is but I'm just gonna take the show and its characters for how they're written). Also, I feel he could have instead reprimanded her and took her to the side and asked if she was ok or something. Like, this girl has bulimia and you're surprised and angry that she doesn't want to get on stage in a shell bikini in front of a room of people?

Anyway, at the end of the next episode they are talking about twerking and how its just ‘not 100 percent their style’. And near the end of the scene Artie says (sorry I couldn't find a gif so Im just explaining it) “we are who were are. No apologies necessary” and I realised id heard something like that in the last episode. So, like the detective I am, I rewatched the scene where Marley gets suspended, and as you can see from above Marley is saying something pretty similar. And in fact she does apologise for just being who she is and standing up for what shes comfortable with and she gets shunned for it. Whereas in the next episode, Mr Schue stands behind Artie and doesn't seem to have any problems with it then. 

Sorry this is so long btw, this is the last paragraph I promise. So basically, when Mr Schue has gone against his own agenda (twerking) in one episode, its totally fine when someone else speaks out about it, because they are agreeing with him and his actions. Whereas, in another episode where someone goes against his agenda (watching minors perform musical numbers in skimpy, revealing clothing, otherwise known as ‘stepping outside of their comfort zones’) without him going against it first, theyre wrong and getting suspended. Even when all that student is doing is refusing to be almost topless on stage when she is in therapy for bulimia. 

So in conclusion Mr Schue is a dick.

honestly there are some things on glee that really bothered me, here we go.

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Santana did not live in Lima Heights Adjacent 

Lima Heights Adjacent was the ‘hood’ or the ‘projects’ of Lima. If you don’t know what the Projects are, it’s an apartment complex owned by the government for poorer, lower income families. Public Housing. I know. I have lived in Public Housing, in a neighborhood and surrounded by neighborhoods that are named like Lima Heights. However, in Britney, when Carl is about to put her and Brittany under for a dental exam, she convinces Carl to give her anesthesia because her dad is a doctor with great benefits. She would not have lived in Public Housing. She would not have lived in Public Housing. 

What really bothered me about this is that it was clearly RIB’s way of making her seem more bitchy and badass, and didn’t actually think about what they were saying. Because if you live in the bad part of town, you’re automatically a bitchy hood rat always looking for a fight. Even though Santana did not live in Lima Heights. She couldn’t have. Her family made too much money. But because she was a Hispanic girl who always had an attitude, she was put into this box. And I hate it. I hate it. I fucking hate it.

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The Jane Addams Glee Club (And just the Hairography Episode in general)

Once again, RIB has incensed me. Hairography is literally one of my least favorite episodes of Glee because of the way this Glee Club is portrayed. The Jane Addams Glee Club is a Glee Club at a reform school for girls. The school is full of ‘teen juvenile delinquents’ (x). Most of these girls are black, and have names such as Aphasia, Jayelle, and Shandonza. What. The. Fuck. Why are they given these names? Shadonza? What?!

Also, the way Rachel reacts. I do recall her saying that they use their hair as a distraction, because their dancing and singing wasn’t that good. ‘Hairography,’ is what she called it exactly. FIRST OF ALL, their vocals were great. Their dancing, while provocative, was better than literally anything the New Directions did in Season One. And the way Mr.Schue takes this and runs with it, accepting Rachel’s statement like it isn’t offensive at all, disgusts me. Why is it that when a black person wears their hair in its natural form, or wears braids or big hair its to be ‘distracting?’ Which leads me to my next point.

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Glee and Natural Hair

The only major black female character on Glee who wears her natural hair is Jane. Not Mercedes, not Madame Tibedeux, not Roz Washington. That’s where the list ends...huh. There’s one male Warbler who wears his natural hair, but he doesn’t have any lines. The rest of the black male characters on Glee wore their hair short, cut down to the scalp almost. (Matt, Jake, and David Warbler.) 

How come we never saw anyone with box-braids on Glee? Never saw any dreadlocks, even though Whoopi has them. They chose to cover them up with a scarf. The only girl who wears an afro is Jane, and even then, there is a snide comment about it from Madison, a white girl (once again, natural hair is regraded as ‘upstaging’ and ‘distracting). Mercedes always wore her hair straight, even though Amber Riley has gorgeous natural hair. 

Oh, and Darren Criss’s natural hair. As we all know, Darren has gorgeous curls. These curls were smothered under ridiculous amounts of hair gel, and when they were let loose, they made fun of it. (broccoli head, terrorist) And it angers me.

Glee is a great show. I love it to death. But some things are just...ugh. And these are a few of them.

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