Poll: what the hell is Glee about?

[Wintermoot]

I got beaten to death by Glee commercials on That Guy With The Glasses and they are planning to air it on Dutch TV channels and I would like to know what its about
PS from what I gathered its a group of kids covering popular songs and some stuff about beauty not being skindeep it sounds a bit too sweet to me

 

[Jefw]

Would you happen to be an alternate dimension version of me?
To much in common to be a coincidence.

 

[Merkavar]

i think its about a way to make covers of actual popular songs and resell them as glee covers of that song and make heaps of money off 13 year olds that will buy the song again

 

[Wintermoot]

Would you happen to be an alternate dimension version of me?
To much in common to be a coincidence.

I,m the evil twin

 

[Wintermoot]

i think its about a way to make covers of actual popular songs and resell them as glee covers of that song and make heaps of money off 13 year olds that will buy the song again

then what,s the point of the TV show?

 

[Popido]

Relevant
Whats it about?...Uuh.. kids being uncool, BUT SUDDENLY its cool to be differenderp.

 

[Jesus Phish]

From what I can tell, Pop Culture. Cashes in on having people sing very well reckonized and popular songs and having clicéd characters such as the very very obviously gay sterotype, the very large black girl who has a great voice, the asian, the skinny nerd, etc etc.

 

[RatRace123]

It's High School Musical the series. OK it's really not, but not much of a stretch to imagine that's the audience they're going for.

 

[brumley53]

They have a bunch of teen's who can hardly sing and they cover bad songs and the occasional good song but usually they ruin the good songs. There's also some school drama story behind it which is mostly shit except once when some dude said his family has a weird tradition of eating chinese food infront of the TV whilst watching shindler's list, I lol'd at that.

 

[Fawful]

It's Nothing, forget the name, bury you head in the proverbial sand and get on with your life.

If you still really need to know.
EDIT: High school musical: The TV show, but with weirder fans.

 

[Merkavar]

i think its about a way to make covers of actual popular songs and resell them as glee covers of that song and make heaps of money off 13 year olds that will buy the song again

then what,s the point of the TV show?

the TV show is giant ad

 

[badgersprite]

Nothing. It has no plot, meaning, purpose or message. And I say this as someone who used to be in the fandom for it.

Basically, the show is about random one-liners interspersed with musical numbers and really bad attempts at drama.

 

[Verp]

So, it's, like, high school kids singing popular songs? Man, of all the things that could be made into TV programs... Well, if it's popular, my country's probably gonna jump on the bandwagon, but I don't watch television so what do I care.

 

[avelmen1889]

"Welcome to Glee, where every episode is the Musical Episode. Trust us, it's Better Than It Sounds.
Glee is about a high school teacher's attempts to organize the glee club while dealing with his own personal issues. The first episode alone featured music from such disparate sources as Journey and Guys And Dolls, and the show goes on to showcase everything from Charlie Chaplin to Lady Gaga.
The musical numbers are usually given an in-universe justification with the activities of the glee club, instead of seemingly springing fully formed from the minds of characters in normal situations, as with most musicals. The effect is very... postmodern. That Reminds Me Of A Song is in full effect. From time to time, an individual does just break into a full-on song and dance sequence with back-up dancers and props and so forth, and it cuts from location to location mid-stream like a music video; based on contextual clues these moments appear to be taking place in the individual's thoughts.
Tons of character stereotypes show up to the point of reviving a few Dead Horse Tropes."

straight from tvtrope's mouth.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Glee

a quick question, has anyone who posted on this forum hating it actualy seen the show?

 

[Tigurus]

I saw some commercial of it but was not interested...

However, suddenly found a cover of Losing my Religion by REM.
And I listened and it was....rather good. *nods*

Then again, I chose a different song and they totally sucked.

Still no idea what it was about though..

 

[SovietSecrets]

People sing(terrible music most of the time), pathetic attempts at drama, more singing(shooting yourself is more fun), and some comedy. Its any teen drama show you have seen except this time with singing! I have watched a few episodes and yeah, its a terrible show.

 

[Wintermoot]

so its HSM the TV series
I think my sister would like that (she loved the HSM movies)

 

[calvincaplan]

high school musical. every week.
thats all you need to know.

 

[Jesus Phish]

a quick question, has anyone who posted on this forum hating it actualy seen the show?

I've not. I've seen enough of their endless ad campaigns to know it doesn't interest me at all.

 

[avelmen1889]

Glee isn't HSM the tv series.

That comparison was what i had at first before i watched the show. HSM is a bunch of flaky characters in a cookie cutter high-school story.
It's way better than high-school musical.

The show tries to actually teach people stuff. Like, for example, the episode with Neil Patric Harris in it [thats right , NPH] it told people that dreams might not come true, but that dosnet mean you should give up on them.

The show also brings to light some actual teen interactions, like them exploring sexuality or things like teen pregnancy, which High-school musical wouldn't touch upon those topics even if they were wearing a hazmat suit.