Still A Bad Graduation

Ugh! So now the Glee people are saying that Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith aren't leaving Glee. I'm so sick of your games! The cast members signed on for 7 years and therefore can't be leaving the show after the 3rd season. Makes sense, but stop messing around. One of the creators was asked during Comic-Con if these 3 were leaving and he said:

Cory, Lea, Chris, they are seniors and so they are graduating. But because they are graduating doesn’t mean they’re leaving the show. I always say, if you have Lea Michele under contract, you don't just say, “You know what? We’re gonna let you go.” It just wouldn’t be kind of the smart thing to do.

Well duh!!!! I would come over there and strangle you myself if you did something like that. There are just more and more things that make me dislike Glee. It makes me sad because it has the potential to be a good show, but when you throw this bullshit into the mix, I'm outtie.

New Home?

So now that you all know I think the Glee writers are dumb, could there be a new place for Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, and Chris Colfer? Doubtful, but it’s worth a shot. Ryan Murphy and FX announced a new show called American Horror Story to premiere in October. I didn’t realize Ryan Murphy came from FX originally with Nip/Tuck. Kind of surprising that he co-created that and then went on to Glee. Totally different ball parks. Anyway, now he has created this new show about a family who moves into a haunted house:

The series, about a family that moves across the country to deal with past issues, features a cast that includes Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”), Connie Britton (“Friday Night Lights”) and Jessica Lange. The show follows a husband and wife (McDermott and Britton) trying to rebuild their family after a few setbacks -- a miscarriage and an affair -- and a change of scenery. Only problem: Their new house is haunted.

Hmmm. I might watch that depending on how they handle the haunting. I wonder what made him decide to take on another project and not stick with Glee. Maybe the Glee cast members will have guest starring roles.

Worst Graduation

Ok, I can’t ignore this any longer. I think this is the dumbest decision the Glee writers and producers could possibly make! Lea Michele (Rachel), Chris Colfer (Kurt), and Cory Monteith (Finn) will not be returning for season 4 of Glee. They will be “graduating” and they won’t be followed off to college. I understand that the writers didn’t want it to be one of those shows where the kids are in high school for 8 years, but wow. Your show is popular right now. Why would you change the cast so dramatically like that? I pretty much only watch the show for Lea Michele. She’s amazing and belongs on my TV singing. There’s a show right now called The Glee Project where the Glee talent guy is actively hunting for new talent. I don’t really like any of the kids they have on the show. I’m not even a very big fan of Glee and this makes me a little mad. I think it’s a really bad decision and I wouldn’t be surprised if the show gets canceled not too far down the line.

Fox is also going to release a 3D concert movie of Glee. I’m kind of over you!

Weekend Show - Glee Live

I hope everyone had an awesome weekend. I wish it was longer, but what can you do. My weekend was packed with entertainment. I saw Glee Live at the Staples Center on Saturday night. The show quality was just as good as their last tour and it was very fun. There were little girls in front of me who would not sit down so I had to dodge a lot to see the stage so that was annoying, but there was a little boy sitting next to us who was so in to the show and that made it better. There were definitely more solos this time around, which I found interesting. I mean it made sense because there are a lot of solos in the show, but of course the big numbers were amazing. I'm happy that they at least hold up live show quality because sometimes their TV show quality is lacking. Here are some fan videos from the Vegas show in case you missed out.

Valerie


Born This Way

Nonfail Blog Friday

Some of you may think this is a fail, but I totally thinks it’s a nonfail, or win depending on how grammatically correct you want to be. I read this article yesterday and it made me laugh. Poor Glee. Guns N’ Roses was asked by Glee to use their songs for an upcoming episode and this is what Axl Rose had to say:

"We got asked about that once already but it got turned down. I draw the line at Glee.Glee is worse than Grease and Grease is bad enough. I look at Grease now and think, 'Between High School Musical and Glee, Grease was a work of art.'"

High School Musical 3 was actually a good movie and Glee can be alright sometimes, but this comment just made me laugh and I had to share. Have an awesome weekend!

Nonfail Blog Friday

Enough said.



Have a good holiday weekend. I will be back on Tuesday.

The Return

The rumors are true. Gwyneth Paltrow is coming back to Glee. No one knows when yet, but she was so liked by the cast and fans that the producers are bringing her back. I'm not going to lie, she was very cute/good on the show. Normally, she does nothing for me. I always thought she was kind of a boring actress, but on Glee she was fun and she can actually sing. I'm kind of looking forward to her return. Glee isn't returning until after the Super Bowl, which isn't too far away. They're taking a break to allow American Idol to have it's turn. Barf. Looks like the cast is going on tour again, which should be fun. Their show last year was freaking incredible. I think I've given up on focusing on the lack of story line and hating Kurt and have just focused on the songs and the fun of it all. At least for now...

Fail or NonFail Blog Friday?

I'm really not sure how I feel about these pictures. I mean, yes this isn't something I want to see, but I'm not sure how I feel about this in general for the public to see. Glee has such a squeaky clean rep and then they do something like this. Yeah, they can do whatever they want to do, but does this somehow taint their show? Does this make younger girls think that it's ok to suck on a lollipop and spread your legs like that? I'm not a parent, but I probably wouldn't want my teenage daughter to have this magazine. I know that when I look at these pictures it makes me wish my body looked like Lea Michele's. I definitely don't appreciate the view of her crotch at all.

To look at the other side of things, I used to be super obsessed with Jennifer Love Hewitt and I had this binder that I created with all these magazine clippings and magazine covers and what not. Well, there were some pretty crazy pictures of her in there. She posed on the cover of Maxim and stuff like that and my parents were ok with me getting those magazines because I liked the actress and they knew I wouldn't go around flashing my stomach the way she did. I was a tomboy too so I'm sure that helped a little.

I guess now that I'm older and actively watch the show I just feel like these pictures are wrong. Glee has a certain reputation and I feel like showing these actors in this light kind of defeats that. If these actors posed like this individually, it may not have had the strong outburst that it did, but because 3 actors from the show posed together I feel like it kind of deserves a fuss...

Cheesus

I'm not sure how I feel about last night's Glee episode. They started talking about God and immediately I tensed up and was ready to hate Glee forever, but then Sue came in and said they weren't allowed to sing about God in a public school, which I completely agree with and Kurt said he didn't believe in God and told his classmates to stop. So I think I was semi ok with the God talk on the show last night. Then, Kurt's dad had a heart attack and was in critical condition the entire episode. Freaking sad. Glee is supposed to be sunshine and rainbows not making teenagers cry.

I do have to say one thing that may make all the Glee fans out there hate me, but the kid who plays Kurt needs to take an acting class or something. He is awful! Sometimes he can sing and sometimes he can't, which is whatever, but his acting is atrocious. I want to slap him sometimes. When I read that he was nominated for an Emmy, I almost committed suicide. I'm glad he didn't win.

Anyway, back to the episode. A lot of the songs were very pretty. My favorite was Papa Can You Hear Me, but that may just be the Jew in me. I'm not sure if Glee needed a serious episode like this. Last week was all about going to the dentist and Britney Spears and this week was all about the possibility of dying and the belief in God. Glee should not make me want to cry. Maybe I'm just mad at them for making me suck it up. I was listening to KROQ this morning and they were bashing Glee and it was a little funny. I can't lie. I don't know if the show deserves to be bashed though. Last night's episode did make me seriously consider my future with the show though.

Glee Isn’t So Gleeful Anymore

Glee has really started to piss me off. I’m kind of sick of all the flashy crap. At first, the show had me super intrigued because the show did things no other show would dare to do. They had amazing singers singing out during any moment. To me, that’s amazing and I loved the show. Now, I’m kind of over all the crap. They went on hiatus forever and I’m sure they lost some of their fan base. Then, when they came back, the show sucked butt. There wasn’t a story line anymore and the episodes were only relying on the musical numbers. The last few episodes of season 1 were ok and they ended on an okay note. Then, they decided to do a cattle call and have people audition through Myspace for season 2 and the producers told everyone that 3 new cast members would be chosen from these Myspace auditions. Yeah, that didn’t happen at all. Then, I walk through the mall and see huge Glee memorabilia displays in the middle of nowhere. I’m just kind of sick of it. I liked the show so much better when it wasn’t about all the flashy crap. You have musical numbers on your show. There’s no need to get flashier than that. Stop with the lies to the fans and the crazy memorabilia. Stop with the flashy! I still like watching the show because they do some interesting twists on songs, but if this continues on much longer, I may need to boycott. Last nights episode was a small wet dream for me because I used to freaking love Britney Spears because she had amazing dance numbers and they did a Paramore song, but all the songs were exactly the same as the original. No super awesome Glee twist. Are they getting lazy? Come on Glee, come back to me the way you used to be!

TV is Back!

I'm so excited for this week. All of our favorite TV shows come back and we even get some new ones. I've been having mini withdrawals here and there. I watched Bones and Grey's Anatomy from the beginning this summer and those are my main shows so my withdrawals weren't too bad. But I miss Glee and Biggest Loser and Hell's Kitchen. I miss watching Gordon Ramsey yell at people. I miss watching Jillian Michaels make overweight people run up hills. Luckily, the shows Master Chef and Working Out With Jillian Michaels held me over for a bit, but it's still not the same. The Jillian Michaels show was so boring I could barely make it through 2 episodes. Master Chef was awesome though.

There are some new shows that seem kind of interesting. No Ordinary Family has me a tiny bit intrigued, but I can see it getting old real fast. I heard it's about a family who gets magical powers after a plane crash or something. Kind of weird, but kind of interesting. There's another show I keep seeing commercials for called The Event. Apparently, it's supposed to be the next Lost. I never watched Lost so it doesn't really appeal to me, but I guess it's worth a shot right. Lost had a huge fan base and I'm sure they're hoping The Event will as well. My roommate refuses to watch it because there have been so many commercials. Usually, that means something is going to suck. I will have to watch it and let you know.

Happy TV watching!!!

Emmy's 2010

We all love TV shows here so I thought I would kick this day off by posting some Emmy nominations that were announced today. Glee has a lot of nominations, which we pretty much saw coming. But here are some more in case you haven't heard.

Drama Series: "Breaking Bad," AMC; "Dexter," Showtime; "The Good Wife," CBS; "Lost," ABC; "True Blood," HBO; "Mad Men," AMC.

Comedy Series: "Curb Your Enthusiasm," HBO; "Glee," Fox; "Modern Family," ABC; "The Office," NBC; "Nurse Jackie," Showtime; "30 Rock," NBC.

Actor, Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad," AMC; Michael C. Hall, "Dexter," Showtime; Kyle Chandler, "Friday Night Lights," DirecTV; Hugh Laurie, "House," Fox; Matthew Fox, "Lost," ABC; Jon Hamm, "Mad Men," AMC.

Actress, Drama Series: Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer," TNT; Glenn Close, "Damages," FX; Connie Britton, "Friday Night Lights," DirecTV; Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife," CBS; Mariska Hargitay, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," NBC; January Jones, "Mad Men," AMC.

Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Aaron Paul, "Breaking Bad," AMC; Martin Short, "Damages," FX; Terry O'Quinn, "Lost," ABC; Michael Emerson, "Lost," ABC; John Slattery, "Mad Men," AMC; Andre Braugher, "Men of a Certain Age," TNT.

Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Sharon Gless, "Burn Notice," USA; Rose Byrne, "Damages," FX; Archie Panjabi, "The Good Wife," CBS; Christine Baranski, "The Good Wife," CBS; Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men," AMC; Elisabeth Moss," Mad Men," AMC.

Actor, Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory," CBS; Larry David, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," HBO; Matthew Morrison, "Glee," Fox; Tony Shalhoub, "Monk," USA; Steve Carell, "The Office," NBC; Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock," NBC.

Actress, Comedy Series: Lea Michele, "Glee," Fox; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "The New Adventures of Old Christine," CBS; Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie," Showtime; Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation," NBC; Tina Fey, "30 Rock," NBC; Toni Collette, "United States of Tara," Showtime.

Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Chris Colfer, "Glee," Fox; Neil Patrick Harris, "How I Met Your Mother," CBS; Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family," ABC; Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family," ABC; Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"; ABC; Jon Cryer, "Two and a Half Men, CBS.

Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Jane Lynch, "Glee," Fox; Julie Bowen, "Modern Family," ABC; Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family," ABC; Kristen Wiig, "Saturday Night Live," NBC; Jane Krakowski, "30 Rock," NBC; Holland Taylor, "Two and a Half Men," CBS.

Shooting the Spit

I kept this a secret until today, but the excitement has overwhelmed me and I must share. Tonight, 3 of my friends and I are going to see the cast of Glee live. We will officially be Gleeks tonight, which by the way means the build up of saliva in the salivary glands and the pushing of the tongue against those glands causing spit to shoot out, but we're going to ignore that definition for now. I saw Lea Michele at the Hollywood Bowl in Les Miserables when no one knew who she was and she was utterly amazing and I freaked out, so if you see a story on the news about some crazed fan running across the stage, it just might be me. You know you're all jealous. Happy Gleek day!!!!

Too Much Glee?

Glee was back last night for the first time in about 3 months, but it never felt like it was gone. Yeah, we didn't get to watch episodes, but there were enough promos on TV and Hulu to tide us over. There was enough news going around about the auditions for the second season on MySpace and there was enough news about Glee touring live and yes my tickets are bought. So with all of that, it never felt like Glee even left. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not sure. While I was watching the episode last night things got a little weird for me. The story line was kind of wonky and I was a bit over it. I was screaming "WTF" at the TV. I keep reading other bloggers say "Is there such thing as too much Glee?" and I can't help but wonder if they're right. Is there such thing as too much Glee? Yes, they're trying to keep this brand new show alive with promo after promo and yes it's a huge hit because of the musical numbers and the talent on the show, but does the show have a potential to bomb very soon? I hate to say any of this because I love the show, but when it gets to the point where it's too much singing and drama will we all keep watching and hoping the writers give us something we can walk away with? I will definitely keep watching, but at this point I'm a little scared for the show. I'm scared that people might stop watching and move on. I'm scared that this awesome show will be another Pushing Daisies. Please don't get canceled!

Don't Rain On My Parade

The Glee auditions are finally underway on MySpace. You have 6 minutes to tell the producers why you’re good for the cast of Glee as well sing your heart out. Of course there is a list of songs to choose from and they are all Glee songs and not the good ones either. How are you supposed to show your vocal range while singing Gold Digger or Rehab? Another thing that makes me feel weird about this is that the public can see all submitted videos and can vote on the ones they like best. Talk about being set up for judgment. If the videos went straight to the producers than it would be alright with me, but this is American Idol MySpace style and I’m having a hard time with that. What if people vote on the crappy ones and leave out a lot of good ones? Will the producers even watch the videos that weren’t voted on? Probably not. I’m sure there’s going to be a million submissions for this thing with everyone telling the producers to put them on the show because they are Lea Michele’s biggest fan or something. Hopefully the producers know better and keep the crazies away. So after that lovely vent fest, are you going to audition or is being set up on MySpace too scary?

Glee Can Make Gay Marriage Legal

Sigh. To be a Glee cast member. We know we have a little bit of a chance with the open casting call to be announced soon for 3 new cast members, but I’m talking about the cast of Glee going to the White House on April 5 as personally invited by Obama for the Easter Egg Roll. That’s right, even the President watches Glee. He wants them to sing at his Easter party. I want to be part of this cast more than ever now. Not many people can say they sang at the White House because they were personally invited by the President. This show just keeps getting better. Maybe they can slip in a note about legalizing gay marriage? Just a thought.

Filled With Glee!

I heard the most amazing news this morning. The cast of Glee has released an album. It can be found on iTunes! How amazing. It has “Defying Gravity” from the Broadway show Wicked as well as many other amazing songs. Some we have already heard and some we have not. This means these songs will appear in episodes!!! We will all have to wait for the Defying Gravity episode to hit the air, but in the mean time check out iTunes. The album is listed on the home page. Or you can just listen here. Enjoy!

More Reality TV

Here we go with another reality show. I remember when reality shows first started I was not pleased. Reality TV was going to change the world for actors and I was not happy about that. When asked the other day what my favorite shows are, I noticed that there are only 4 non-reality shows that I watch on a regular basis. How sad and pathetic is that? There are very few non-reality shows on TV right now. The shows I watch that don’t fall into the hate on actors category are Glee, Ghost Whisperer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and 30 Rock. The rest are reality shows and bad ones at that. The show that is on the top of my reality list right now is The Biggest Loser. It has taken the place of Hell’s Kitchen simply because Hell’s Kitchen ended a few weeks ago. Sad day.

I remember a couple years ago I was home on my day off eating Taco Bell and I stumbled across some old episodes of The Biggest Loser. I stayed on the channel and watched and ate and just started bawling. Here I am eating Taco Bell while these people are trying to change their lives because they had one too many tacos. I felt horrible. Now I make sure not to eat while I watch the show. It is one of those feel good shows, unlike some of the other reality shows I watch. The Hills makes us feel better about ourselves because the people on the show are so dumb, otherwise it is just brain mushing. The Biggest Loser shows the audience that if you put your mind to it, you can achieve it. I know cliché, but what can I say. I like seeing the transformations too.

Going from 400 pounds to 100 pounds and seeing how that changes people’s lives is cool to me. The trainers aren't too bad to look at either.

The Night

Tonight is going to be the best night of all of our lives. Tonight is the night Glee begins for real. No more teasing, this is the real deal. As we have waited for this very night, we have been teased with the pilot and then with free videos and songs on YouTube as well as a national tour by the cast to various stores to promote the show. Now we can all set the TiVo or VCR for the technology impaired (my parents) and invite this amazing show into our living room with the fabulous Lea Michele and Jane Lynch. Not only will this be an amazing show, we hope, but it also features some hotness. Oh and lesbians, too. Go lesbians!

I hope everyone gets a chance to watch tonight. If you happen to miss it for whatever lame reason, you can catch it on Hulu. There should be no excuses! So go and watch and report back tomorrow. In the mean time, enjoy!

So Much Glee

The TV show Glee could not return faster. They teased everyone by showing the pilot back in May. Now it won’t air again until September. The actors are traveling around the country to various stores to promote the crap out of the show. I don’t know that it needs promotion. The hype around this show is incredible. I am super excited every time a new song is released on iTunes.


Many don’t know, but Lea Michele is a Broadway actor. She was in the original cast of Spring Awakening. She was also in Les Miserables at the Hollywood Bowl, hence the version of On My Own she sings in an upcoming episode. I remember hearing her on YouTube at one point and going gaga over her voice. Then, I saw Les Mis at the Bowl and recognized her voice and pretty much went ape shit. To know that I can invite her into my living room once a week is freaking awesome.

Until the show airs again, we can only rely on YouTube and iTunes. Enjoy.