in “Special Education”, the drama is definitely there. However, I think the episode failed to utilize the same. But overall, this is a good episode for Glee.
TV Fanatic: Instead, after weeks of practice, in a rushed, panicked move, Will suddenly changed up everything about the group’s Sectionals performance. The show may have been trying to prove a point about how much he’s whipped by Emma, but it came across as manufactured drama instead.
Elsewhere, Emma married Carl.
Again, instead of actually feeling bad for Will, I felt manipulated by the writers. We haven’t seen Emma in weeks, and she’s given every indication over the last season-plus that she’s pretty much the last person on earth who would ever take such a rash step in a relationship.
This is the kind of problem Glee can run into when it spends so much time focusing on societal issues over character development and storylines: all intrigue, suspense and emotion feels rushed and unearned.
Two more complaint before I get to the parts of “Special Education” I loved: first, after dedicating so much time to the issue of bullying with Kurt, why is everyone – within New Directions itself, no less – allowed to just lay into Rachel?
I find her irritating, as well; and I acknowledge nothing she’s going through is on the same level as what Karofsky was doing to Kurt. But am I the only one who feels like there’s a double standard at work here, when the show makes the issue of bullying a gay student so substantial, yet is perfectly fine with Quinn telling Rachel she wants to punch her in the face every time she talks?
Second… a tie?!? Seriously?! What a cop-out. It’s safe to assume any competition such as this would give us an odd number of judges as a safeguard against that possibility.
After this episode, what more do you expect from Glee?
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