Glee!

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Anything Kurt and The Host of Nickelodeon Guts (Mike O Malley) absolutely breaks me. I started bawling like a baby the minute he started beating down on Finn using the word 'faggy'. I've never seen anything like that on television or in movies -- the parent absolutely standing up for the child using those words, being that fierce, and it's heartwarming. Warms my heart.

What I don't like about Glee is that it's completely inconsistent. It moves from storyline to storyline without giving the characters any time to digest what's happening to them. Last week they're going to shut down Glee Club, the week before that there's another major crisis, and this week Tina has an identity crisis. I think this is one of the first episodes that really wrapped up a storyline in a consistent way. In that way, it was a good episode.

I'm a pop music fiend so the Lady Gaga theme didn't hurt. Loved their version of Bad Romance and that Santana got a bitchin' solo. I noticed that they took the word 'bitch' out of the song.

I'm not a Kiss fan so I just tuned that part out. Beth was sweet though.

The Idina/Lea stuff is difficult for me to look at with any kind of outsider perspective because I'm in the adoptee position but I like the way that it was handled. A lot of adoptees don't have the Lifetime movie ending with their birthparents and I like that that's addressed in this show. Just because someone gives birth to you doesn't mean that they're your parent and Idina's character realized that instantly. Rachel realized it too. I really liked that acknowledgment between them. So, good job Glee.

I really, really liked last week's and thought that it was perfect (thanks NPH and Joss!) and it's good to see that they've followed it up with another equally strong episode.