Filled with Glee: The Unauthorized Glee Companion
Leah Wilson
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 1935618008
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From its quirky character insights to its inspirational, funny, and touching stories from fellow gleeks, Filled with Glee is the perfect companion for the fan who can’t get enough Glee.
Other standout sections include:
• A guide to putting together a glee club in your own school or community
• An index of Glee song and musical references, by episode
• Biographies of main and guest actors’ musical theater backgrounds (and where and when they’ve worked together before)
The Playboy Interview: Late-Night Talkers
The Hollywood Reporter (12 February 2016)
though I’m in my thirties, Glee appeals to that teen hiding somewhere inside me. The first time I watched the show, it not only validated the way I viewed my entire high school existence—it was hard, unfair at times and just plain awkward—but also made my teen years look like a total breeze. Instead of sticky slushies, mean-spirited teachers, and unplanned pregnancies, my threats were spitballs, glued lockers, bad hair days, and unreciprocated crushes. One saving grace was that, like Quinn, in
in inclusion and acceptance. Whether it is Dr Wu and his bonsai plants, bitchy cheerleaders, or the dumbest blonde to ever grace television screens (“I forgot how to leave”), Glee’s stereotypes aim not only to amuse, but also to educate—with the rare talent of not becoming preachy in the process. There’s nothing new about highlighting minority issues on television; inclusion has become a common theme in recent years. But few television shows have managed to successfully avoid “issue of the week”
who was lying about the father of her baby, and Terri, who was lying about being pregnant at all. But the Glee writers fully established why each of these women would make the choices she’d made. What, then, was the problem? Well, the single biggest problem with Terri’s lie is this: It only works if Will Schuester is a total idiot. Maybe a pregnancy pad worn beneath her shirts could deceive Terri’s coworkers and casual acquaintances. But seriously, how could she think that she could spend nine
begins. Sue had planned to sabotage New Directions, but the self-centered judges do most of the dirty work for her. Sue finds herself actually defending and ultimately voting for her school’s club. The votes are cast, and the decisions are announced. Second place, the “not at all stupidly named” Aural Intensity. And the winner: Vocal Adrenaline. New Directions, our heroes, did not win or place. They lost. The club’s death knell sounds. Knowing their time together is at an end, the students (all
has appeared in over fifty television shows, including L.A. Law, Seinfeld, Roseanne, Ellen, Friends, ER, The West Wing, Joan of Arcadia, Alias, The Tick, Weeds, and Chuck. He played a character with the same name as his own in Married . . . with Children, Life With Bonnie, and Kitchen Confidential . His longest character name to date: Inzamamulhaq Siddiqui, a recurring role in The George Carlin Show. Stephen Tobolowsky as Sandy Ryerson Tobolowsky performed in musicals in his hometown of