Glee: Silly Love Songs

Last night was Glee's Valentine's episode, and as I blogged about, it was supposed to be one of the best episodes they've done.  While it was a solid episode, hilarious, and plot developing, I wouldn't call it one of the best. Two of my favorites this season have been "Grilled Cheesus" and "Duets".  Anyway, allow me to talk about the episode.

It opened with a teaser (tv term for that short segment that comes before the opening titles) that completely surprised me. I knew Puck was getting a love interest, but I had NO idea that it was going to turn out to be Lauren (played perfectly by Ashley Fink). A character who when first showed up I thought was just a throw away character and kept appearing in episodes randomly, in the course of about a 2 minute teaser was turned into a power house, hilarious, tough as nails love interest for Puck, who is going to give him a run for his money.  I was instantly sold on the character, and we hadn't even gotten to the one sided catfight between her and Santana (which, by the way, was one of the funniest scenes they've ever done). Only one question remains...can Ashley Fink sing?  Only time will tell, but I'm sure she can, and I hope she's around a good long while.  One of my favorite things they do on Glee is take a song, and then turn it on its head. Perfect example was when Puck sang a "love song" to Lauren (who is over weight, and not typically Puck's type) and that love song turned out to be Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girl". Oh..my..gosh. I was laughing so hard. I was waiting with worried anticipation through the entire song to see what Lauren's response would be, and it was perfect: "That was the first time anyone has sang a love song to me, and it made me feel like crap". Great writing, great delivery, great scene.

This episode was also the continuation of the love pentagon between Rachel/Finn/Quinn/Sam/Santana. Was anyone else uneasy with Quinn's behavior in this episode? As far as we've known (until the Super Bowl episode), Quinn and Sam were perfect together, and perfectly happy together.  Then all of a sudden she's kissing Finn...then kissing him some more...and giving each other Mono (perfectly planned and executed by Santana)...and not breaking up with Sam.  It strikes me as not very Quinn-like, after the lessons she learned during baby-gate last season. Things are about to get more complicated though. Did you see the look Sam and Santana gave each other at the end of the episode during the Warbler's version of "Silly Love Songs"? Yeah...me too. Verrry interesting.

Speaking of the Warblers. I'm done with them.  I like Kurt. I like Blaine. I liked this storyline in the beginning, but that was when I thought the Warblers part of the story would be like a 3-4 episode arc, and now it's turning into the entire season.  The only performance I've truly enjoyed by them was "Bills, Bills, Bills" during the Super Bowl episode. And why must Blaine get all the solos? Do they not realize that Kurt can sing? Did Kurt lose his voice? What gives?!  Kurt needs to go back to McKinley pronto.

A few final thoughts:

Lea Michele sings Katy Perry songs better than Katy Perry sings Katy Perry songs. She actually made "Firework" tolerable. But please Ryan Murphy...make the Perry stop!!!  You've done all her current hits, so please give it a rest.

Also: I ALWAYS notice and always care when there is no Emma or Sue in an episode. This episode had neither of them...and for the first time, it didn't really bother me. Emma and Sue are still two of my favorite characters, but this episode was so well written and paced, that it was barely obvious that they were even missing from the episode!

That's all for now.  Hope you all enjoyed the episode, too. Next week should be good: Sue joins New Directions.