blurintofocus:Glee Recap - Tragedy at McKinley High - Billboard.comI sat with the suicide scene from
blurintofocus:Glee Recap - Tragedy at McKinley High - Billboard.comI sat with the suicide scene from Glee since last Friday, since I needed to view it to prep for my interview with Max Adler. It was extremely hard to watch, and then watch again, especially without the rest of the episode to see, but I’m glad I did. Sitting with that moment for a while let it sink in, and let me think about how truly masterfully done it is, in comparison to there rest of the episode and, really, all episodes of Glee, as a piece of storytelling. When Glee gets it right, it helps erase all the failings and wrongs of the series, and takes Glee beyond just a TV show, but a social force. That’s why I opened my recap this week with names of young boys who weren’t as lucky as a fictional character and didn’t get a second chance.The things I want to think about Glee as it finishes out the season are still all about destiny and the future, about how much control you have (Rachel and Kurt, to create their success through ambition, and the flipside where you can also attempt your own demise, which various characters have done in their own ways but Karofsky most starkly) and the alternate when life strips your control (Quinn, Blaine and Kurt in their past, Sam by circumstance of his age in this case, although we’ve seen TV magic erase parts of that stress) and how you react to that loss of control. It’s a fluid thing (Kurt couldn’t stop Karofsky’s violence, but he could react to it in different ways, etc.) and the most interesting thing to me about how Glee is setting us up for the great escape from high school. I sit and think about little changes I could have made to my destiny then, and what they would have meant for now. It’s hard to see in such small focus, because it feels like I was always meant to be where I am now. But was I? -- source link
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