Review: Season 1, Episode 1 of "Glee" is in your face TV

After watching the first episode of the first season of the television show “Glee,” I give it three and a half stars.  The show was entertaining but it had a lot of story lines.

There are several characters that face different problems. There is the Spanish teacher who married his high school sweetheart who likes to shop. He enjoys teaching and wants to be over a “glee” club to help students find the same joy he had when he was in the same club. However his wife would prefer him to get a job as an accountant. His wife tries to manipulate him by becoming pregnant so that he will quit his job teaching to make more money so that she can continue shopping. 

There is a football player who enjoys singing but is afraid to be part of the “glee” club because his classmates think glee club members are losers. 

Another character, Rachel, wants to become famous and thinks that being in “glee” will give her a boost in that direction.

The show brings out a lot of different issues. There was a former “glee” club teacher that was wrongfully accused by Rachel and is now selling drugs to make a living. Another teacher is very tough on the students in order to stay in the newspapers and on television. Then there is a  teacher who likes a married teacher and is a germaphobe.

The show also attempts to be politically correct: one of the members in the “glee” club is a homosexual, one is African-American, one is Asian, one is in a wheelchair.

Of course they mention the cliques of high school, such as the jocks, the cheerleaders, the loners, the wannabes, etc. It shows peer pressure scenarios, so that teenagers can relate.

The show has a lot going on, is in your face, and is comically written.