S2E3

Cheesus!

Okay; main plot; Finn grills a cheese sandwich and gets the image of Jesus on it so he turns religious and Kurt’s Dad gets a heart attack but Finn doesn’t pray on it.

Okay, last time I forgot to give alternatives. I was swept up by the Britneysque episode. Can I sneak it in now? I’d have thrown Will’s eagerness to connect with OCD chic out and put in him lamenting his way through numerous chics at a speed dating scene singing womaniser or something. Then he can get flack about that not being appropriate behaviour while justifying Sue’s calls about Britney being a sexy bad influence.

Now on to Grilled Cheesus. Try as hard as I can, can’t separate God and state in this one (state being code for stupid episode). Apparently Ryan Murphy wanted to include Christians and religious people in the spirit of Glee with this episode. All I know is that he lured them in to get ripped and not in the good jokey way that they do at the Apollo.

I’m hoping someone got struck by lightning for doing this episode and no I am not a peaceable Christian. Falchuk falchucked this episode up. From the in-your-face heart health PSA (Kurt’s dad getting a heart attack like three minutes after Kurt warns him on the consequences of eating cholesterol laden foods) to the whole Christianity-is-only-good-for-personal-needs. It was all so wrong. Alternative? Thank you.

Finn approaching Mercedes about Christianity instead of cutting school in the middle of the day to pray for the opportunity to touch Rachel’s boobs. This would not only give Mercedes some actual light in performance away from being Ephy (dreamgirls) and also form some sort of relationship between Finn and Mercedes. Quinn could also have entered the mix and therein show that their feelings for each other were not over yet.

Kurt’s atheism being presented as more than a teenager throwing a tantrum in his effort to be more different than ever. Most atheists don’t go around asking for proof of a teapot floating around behind the moon; they just don’t have faith in a higher being. He should have been written to present the other non-stereotypical atheists; those who don’t believe in anything but themselves.

Rachel whoring out her body in exchange for her kids being raised Jewish. Is it me or is that really bigoted? How about the lead into second base being her testing her trust borders with Finn and seeing how she reacts to being sexual with her boyfriend?

Sue going after spirituality because she didn’t realise there is a difference between faith and physical reality. Sue’s the villain of the show, granted but couldn’t her villainous ways have been more of taking down Glee club for having a spirituality session in school when it’s clearly stated it’s not allowed.

Then taking away Finn’s discovery of faith at the end? Wow, not really ingenious there. I hope the golden globe wasn’t for this episode. Why not leave Finn’s faith intact or have him change from his superficial approach to faith ie being selfish in prayer to actually looking deeper into the faith of Christianity by ending the episode with him actually opening a Bible?

So much potential; so little effort.

Faithfully,

Hinged.