Saturday, November 14, 2009

Glee's "Wheels" episode ranks high in Hulu popularity this week

From the Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner:

Hulu.com shows Glee's most recent full episode below called "Wheels" as the 3rd-most popular Hulu.com video as of this writing.

Set in Ohio and using well-written, quirky and alliterative terms like "Lima Loser" not often seen on TV shows these days, this latest episode of Glee tackled tough subjects like wheelchairs, which Kevin McHale's character Artie Abrams performs fabulously in a scene wherein he spins around to an excellent rendition of Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" and pines away for Tina Cohen-Chang, whom he thinks has stuttering problem.

Chris Colfer's gay character of Kurt Hummel deals with his single, man's man of a father mechanic getting a homosexual slur phone call at work -- and the Finn and Quinn and "Puck" love triangle boils to a head.

Missing was cute teacher Matthew Morrison's character's own love triangle -- but Glee did show a spicy scene from next week's episode wherein Lea Michele's Rachel will develop a huge crush on the cute Glee teacher -- forcing the episode to recall Sting's "Don't Stand So Close to Me," a song Sting wrote from his own experiences as a teacher who "starts to shake and cough, just like the old man in that book by Nabokov."

Jane Lynch's hard-as-nails coach character Sue Sylvester finally unveiled a softer side, when Glee ended the episode with the reason why Sue allowed a cute girl with Down Syndrome (actress Lauren Potter, pictured) to become one of her beloved "Cheerios" -- and why she rode the girl so hard during practice routines.