Glee – Furt
This episode is going to remain on the dvr for a while. I really, really liked it, and felt very emotional when it ended. The whole “Sue marrying herself” storyline aside, because that storyline sucked, this ep was great.
So first Sue’s storyline: Why on Earth did they do this to her? Sue deserves better than to be this ridiculous story. I understand wanting to bring Carol Burnett on as her mother, the Nazi hunter, but this wasn’t necessary for that to happen. She could have just shown up. I did love the track suit wedding dress though, and the Carol Burnett-Jane Lynch duet was excellent.
The other side of Sue, the one that helped Kurt as principal and expelled his bully Karofsky from school is the Sue I would love to see more often. I know she has to be a foil for Will and the Glee club, but she was so amazing with Kurt I would like to see that more. Now because of the school board Karofsky is coming back, and Kurt is transferring to Dalton
The wedding between Kurt’s dad and Finn’s mom made me very happy. The Glee club performed at the wedding, Will performed at the reception, Kurt planned the whole wedding, and Finn finally, FINALLY seemed to start to accept that he and Kurt are brothers. When the rest of the guys in the Glee club who are also on the football team warned Karofsky to leave Kurt alone, and physically fought him, Finn refused to be a part of it. I have a feeling, now that Kurt will be gone and Karofsky will be back, Finn won’t be so quick to walk away. He will have Kurt’s back, even if Kurt isn’t there.
This episode was light on the singing, and it was kind of a nice break. I liked that the music was confined to the wedding, and the rest of the episode was really about storyline and emotion. After the Gwyneth episode last week, it was nice to be back with our core characters and see some really storyline advancement.
No Ordinary Family – No Ordinary Accident
Jim’s powers are in and out in this episode and they figure out it was something he was allergic to in Stephanie’s lip gloss. If bad guys get a hold of this information, Jim could have some serious trouble down the road.
Katie is dating “Will” who is actually The Watcher. He is definitely doing it to get closer to Stephanie, under orders from Dr King, but I am hoping he found Katie as cute and nearly irresistible as I did on their date. I am hoping he develops feelings for her, and maybe that will delay or stop whatever he and Dr King plan to do.
JJ’s teacher, Mr Litchfield was still being a jerk, and honestly when his car got T-Boned I was kind of hoping he would be dead. I don’t wish death on real people, but I think it’s okay to feel that way about a character on a TV show. Instead, dude had a rebar in his chest, and it couldn’t be removed safely because he would have bled out. JJ convinced Stephanie to operate using her super speed and his super brain, and it worked. In the end, the teacher didn’t even remember what was going on with JJ, the trouble he was in, and that he was planning to go to the school board and the police because JJ had hacked the school computer system.
Daphne’s storyline was so inconsequential this week; I am not even going to talk about it. All I will say is I hope she has finally realized the shallow way in which she is using her powers, and maybe tries to do something better with them in the future.
Parenthood – Happy Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving reminded me of our family Thanksgivings when I was growing up. My mother had 2 brothers and 2 sisters, and they all also had children, so there were many Thanksgivings with my family like this one. We never played football, but we did WATCH football, and there was one Thanksgiving where a chocolate pie ended up upside-down on the floor courtesy of yours truly. My grandmother yelled at me, and it ended up with me running from the room in one direction crying, and her running from the room in the other direction crying.
There were a few Thanksgivings that ended up with someone yelling, some when someone ended up crying, there were always a lot of laughs, and there were some pretty crazy stories that got bigger and bigger every year we sat at the table and retold them. There were boyfriends that were there one Thanksgiving and gone the next (like Gordon, apparently). My sister didn’t eat turkey and the fixings for dinner for years, and she would eat only spaghetti-Oh’s (later spaghetti) or Cheerios.
Every family has these kinds of stories, and I thought Parenthood did a really great job with this episode. As you can tell, it made me nostalgic for my family’s Thanksgivings, even while reminding me they were rarely perfect. The Braverman Thanksgiving wasn’t perfect for them either, but it was a day they celebrated being able to be together, which is honestly what Thanksgiving should be all about. I hope you all have all the good parts of Thanksgiving, and none of the bad.
Sons of Anarchy – June Wedding
Thank God we are back to English titles this week; those Irish titles were wreaking havoc on my spell check.
Friends and I were talking about this episode, and we all seemed to agree that Stahl is like a cockroach. She’s dirty, nasty and almost indestructible, not to mention she is constantly rolling around in the shit and seems to like it. I really hope Stahl is gone by the end of next week’s season finale, one way or the other, and honestly I am hoping she somehow ends up dead. I don’t care how; I just don’t want her to be able to keep coming back at the club. Nothing against Ally Walker, I like the actress, and my hatred of Stahl is really a testament to how good she is in the role. Next season we are probably going to have to deal with Hale and the state police taking over for Charming PD, we don’t need Stahl too.
Salazar is finally dead and gone at least. I was glad it was Jax who made the choice, and not Alvarez or anyone else. Jax put his love for Tara ahead of what may have been best for the club. His priorities are established, Tara and the baby (and Abel I am sure) ahead of the club. I am glad Tara and the baby are okay.
Opie asked Lyla to marry him. Well, he said he thought they should get married. He talked to Gemma about her, and how much he dislikes the fact that she is in the porn industry, and he knew he had no right to ask her to quit. Gemma told him she likes Lyla and she thought if he married her, she would probably quit the business, because then she would have the security she is looking for, for herself and her son. Then Opie talked to Lyla about the fact that things are changing, and the club is in trouble, and he could go to prison and didn’t know how things were going to land. So he thought they should get married. He has said “I love you” to her before, but didn’t during his “proposal”, and it seemed more like a business proposition than anything else. I think we should get married, so I can give you the security you need and you can quit doing porn, and if I go to jail you can take care of my kids legally. I did notice she didn’t say yes yet.
I laughed when it was revealed that the beef between Tigg and Kozik is all over a dog. Now, don’t get me wrong, I understand the love of, and for, a dog, but these two are taking it to extremes. It appears to me that whatever happened, Kozik holds most of the blame and Tigg holds most of the bad feelings. I am almost afraid to find out what actually happened to the dog, but I imagine we will find out next week, in the finale.
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