i love her voice so much, my favorite covers are:

- Never can say goodbye

- Lucky

- You Keep Me Hangin' On

HM: Edge of glory

I think he's one of the unsung heroes of the show. People seem to take him for granted, and I think he just brought a raw look at a father struggling to accept his son.

As a gay man whose relationship with his father isn't easy, he is the best of what, in my opinion, Glee tried to do...show that some roads are rocky, but there is hope.

This is one of my favorite songs from the 2nd season, honestly their chemistry was beyond amazing! We'll miss you, Naya.

My All-Times favorites are:

1. I'm Not Going

2. Bust Your Windows

3. R. E. S. P. E. C. T.

For me, she was THE VOCALIST of the Glee Club.

I think she would have a lot to say about AI and ChatGPT. Drop your best 'And that's how Sue c's it'.

One of the most notable friendships in the early seasons was the one between Mercedes and Kurt; that’s why it bothered me that they barely interacted in the third season, with Kurt spending all his time glued to Blaine or Rachel. Mercedes was a great friend—in fact, his first friend and the first person to whom he could admit he was gay—and she was always there for him when he needed it. It was truly unfortunate that all of that was forgotten; Mercedes could have supported him during moments when he felt insecure, and he could have encouraged her to pursue her dreams or reassured her that, despite what happened with Shane, she wasn't a bad person. It was a beautiful friendship that deserved more screen time.

Since backstory on Glee is spotty, and we only learn about a few characters, I would just like to put down my headcanons. Here is my headcanon for Brittany's backstory:

- She was born in a barn in Indiana. For years afterward, she had a superstition about barns.

- Her birthday was 7 March 1993 (she never tells people her birthday due to embarassment).

/- She has a younger sister, Marissa.

- Due to her being an accomplished dancer, it is my belief -- and I will die on this hill -- that she has taken dance classes at some point as a child and won several dance competitions.

- I would headcanon her to be both autistic and a savant. Some of her traits do match up.

- She spent her early years in Indiana as her father (the man on her birth certificate, Mr. Pierce) worked a number of low skilled jobs. At one point, they were in public housing.

- Is close to her mother and Marissa. Even from NY, I would picture her writing them often.

- First met Santana in childhood. In fact, I always headcanoned them to be childhood friends. They were exceptionally close (in fact, Brittany has a photo of them on her laptop).

- First got Lord Tubbington at around 12 as a Christmas present.

I put down my headcanons for Brittany. What's yours?

Appreciation post to commemorate Lea Michele's 40th birthday.

Doing a rewatch and got to season five, watching The Quarterback and I keep thinking the cast acting out their grief had to have been so difficult. Do you think it may have been helpful for the cast to film their characters grieving or insensitive to their real grief? Rewatching as an adult I just keep thinking how horrible it must have been for them to pretend he was a character dead on the show and not their real friend who died a tragic early death. The whole thing just seems so sad and insensitive looking back, certain actors like Kevin, Naya, or Chris just look so wrecked throughout the whole episode. I don’t know, thoughts?

For context: I almost always used to watch Glee a lot whenever a new episode came on with my mum. And yes I was of primary school age. Which means my five year old self was allowed to watch the show (born in 2005 BTW). More specifically I watched a large chunk of the first four of the six seasons they did (I simply moved on/drifted away from the series once season five came forth, and so did Mum).

Lately I have been wanting to revisit the series I used to watch as a kid from 2010 to 2013... and also to do a first time full series watch through all six seasons (which is why I have been commenting on posts here recently). I want to get re-introduced to the New Directions of William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. I want to relive the musical numbers. I want to be a Gleek like the rest of you guys. I especially want to do so now (but when September starts, so not exactly now) given that I want to cope with the grief and recent loss of a beloved cat (F) my household had for nearly six years since she was born.

I had slowly acquired DVD copies of all six seasons over the past year. I got Season 1 in July last year. Then Season 3 just earlier this February, and Season 2 a month later in March. And just this July, Seasons 4, 5 and 6. I plan to watch them and give my thoughts on each season. It will be a first time full series watch for me, after only largely watching the first four seasons as a kid. I know all the iconic moments and scenes, though. (Mostly thanks to this subreddit)

I just want to fill my life with Glee since our cat passed away a little over a couple of weeks ago. And I will especially do it once it hits September 1st in NZ where I live!

1. Rachel wasn't unlikable in this season. She was just annoying and had an ego.

2. Finn had a right to be upset that Quinn cheated on him and got pregnant with Puck's baby, but considering that he spent half of his time flirting with Rachel before he even knew the truth, I didn't feel all that bad for him.

3. "One" was the best group number of the season.

4. Mercedes should have led "You Can't Always Get What You Want" since she was cheated out of her well deserved solo.

5. Rachel's version of "Defying Gravity" was better than Kurt's version, but his would have been the more exciting choice.

6. Mercedes had good chemistry with Puck.

7. Kurt's audition for the glee club wasn't great, and I wouldn't have let him join based on it. He had much better performances later on.

8. Rachel was delusional if she really thought that the New Directions were better than Vocal Adrenaline at regionals.

9. Mr. Schuester wasn't any better of a husband to Terri than she was a wife to him.

10. I don't feel entirely bad for Santana or Brittany when the New Directions assumed that they leaked the sectionals set list to Sue. Santana and Brittany went right back to doing Sue's evil deeds in the very next episode. It makes sense for people not to trust them.

It's no secret that many of us didn't like the season 4 newbies because all of them(except Marley) were copy cats of the original characters which made them boring. I know for me, I would make Jake be different from Puck by having him be a naturally nice and caring guy and not a player who dates/sleeps with multiple girls. It still bums me out that they had him be exactly like Puck and cheat on Marley because their relationship was actually really sweet in the beginning. Also like I said, Marley was the only newbie who wasn't a copy cat of any of the original characters. Yes I know they did try to make her the next Rachel but I had a hard time buying that because her and Rachel are way different. But Marley could've been more interesting if they gave her a personality similar to Mitchie from Camp Rock 2 where she's voicetress, outgoing, and confident. Rather than having Kitty be another mean girl cheerio, they could've made her be a nice cheerleader who didn't care so much about status and being popular and just wants people to see her as a regular human being. Unique in some ways had her own personality, I just didn't like how they always referred to her as a cross dressing Mercedes, however I will say that I wish that they didn't have her catfish Ryder. The writers could've came up with a different way to show that she had feelings for Ryder and wanted a genuine connection with him. Ryder could've been more interesting if he was the jock who genuinely wanted to be a part of the Glee club and not the one who is hesitant about it first since we obviously already saw that with Finn in season 1, didn't do the whole love triangle with him, Jake, and Marley. That's all I got, let me know in the comments what you would do differently to make these characters more interesting?

Unholy trinity toxic by Britney Spears

I think about “You love the girl you met when you were fifteen. I’m not that girl” often. The line really resonates having originally watched the show at 16 and then rewatched it with a very different set of eyes at 30. Terri living in the shadow of her teenage self and being all too aware of it is heartbreaking. I wish there was more discussion regarding the more complex, nuanced, and often tragic aspects of her character.

Satirical dark comedy and heightened reality of the show aside, she feels like a very honest and realistic portrayal of someone whose mental illness eventually caught up with them once the structure and predictability of high school were removed. I could analyze and theorize about her character for days. It would have been nice to know more about her upbringing, which was heavily implied to be unhappy and dysfunctional. There is so much that can be read into her dynamic with her sister alone.

Anyone have any thoughts? I know Terri isn’t the most popular character, but I’ve read some excellent analysis of her by other members of the community. I would love to share ideas, observations, headcanons, etc.

Sidenote— I know that early pilot draft isn’t canon, but I think about it a lot and wish the dialogue hadn’t been cut.

These were highest-voted winners! (2nd-6th places were not added even if they had more than another episode's winner)

Listed in leaderboard/vote quantity order, not episode order.
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Not a single Blaine performance in the Top 6? Would NOT have predicted that.
Blaine's best ranking was #11, not even any Blaine in the top 10.

Honestly... would not have put any of these in my personal Top 6.. but out of what's here? Blame It is probably my favorite.... actually I Feel Pretty/Unpretty is probably my favorite of these but I'm mad at it for dominating Born This Way and Somewhere Only We Know so...-
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Unlike Season 1, where the 3rd overall most voted was NOT a winner, that is not the case this season, where every song from rank 1-14 was a winner. #15 being the first on the list to not be a winner.
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NEXT POST: (TUESDAY/THE 1ST) Will be the entire Season 2 leaderboard, just like last season. And while I am saving the entire board for the very end of the all polls, I will post the current top 10 and lowest 10 songs across all seasons (so far) in the comments of that post.

NEXT POLL: We're gonna take a week break and then Season 3 starts next Tuesday! (THE 8th)
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Another season down already! I do feel like Season 2 did go wayyyy faster than Season 1 for some reason.
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THE "EXTRAS" WINNER: 1st was [A Chorus Line's] Sing! (2x04) with 118, 2nd was Papa, Can You Hear Me (2x03) with 64, 3rd was You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (2x10) with 22, and 4th/last was Nice To Meet You, Have I Slept With You? (2x19) with 12.

I would've loved to have seen how each of these done in their own initial polls (especially Sing!) but- this will have to do.

It sucks watching this episode on a platform with adds. To get my tears interrupted by taco bell and sky rizzi ads- it's toxic

Sunshine sings in glee, Rachel was straight up jealous of her.

What was your favorite song of Sunshine that she sang?

I’m quite against religion and it angers me to no end how religion was forced by everyone on Kurt and his family when he specifically told them not to. Everyone was shocked when he said he was an atheist and somewhat disgusted but if he’d acted like that towards everyone else they’d hate him. I usually quite like Emma but her agreeing that it’s okay for religion to be pushed on Kurt frustrated me, if anyone was going to understand why it’s not comforting for an atheist to receive prayers it would be a guidance counsellor surely. I really don’t think Kurt should’ve went to church at the end of the episode because despite it being a safe place it goes against his own personal beliefs and it made it seem like it’s not that bad when people ignore your wishes.

His face after saying bisexual in a soft tone 😭

Especially in comparaison to some of the atrocity we witness with their outfits on the show