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Episode 4.08: “Thanksgiving”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Well, the Thanksgiving episode is a week late, but that’s okay because Thanksgiving doesn’t really have anything to do with it except as a way of bringing the non-New-York...
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Episode 4.10: “Glee, Actually”
(Spoilers lurk below.) To say that Glee has a spotty record with Christmas episodes would be generous. Season two’s “A Very Glee Christmas” and season three’s “Extraordinary Merry Christmas” both fell...
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Episode 4.12: “Naked”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Let’s not mince words here: “Naked” is bad. It’s probably the worst episode of an already weak season. On the other hand, it may actually be so bad that it’s good. I laughed...
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Episode 4.14: “I Do”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This was a surprisingly great episode, which started on a sad note and then proceeded to slowly let the atmosphere fill with tentative happiness. What with the wedding, there are...
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Episode 4.15: “Girls (and Boys) On Film”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This may be one of the top ten most plotless episodes that Glee has ever done. Don’t get me wrong, it was a hell of a lot of fun, at least for the first few acts, but what really...
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Episode 4.17: “Guilty Pleasures”
(Spoilers lurk below.) When I first became a fan of Glee, I described it as a guilty pleasure. Around the middle of season two, when the series really began to pick up, I dropped that descriptor...
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Episode 5.05: “The End of Twerk”
(Spoilers lurk below.) This episode matches the plotless rambling of season three with the ultra-dramatic tonal shifts of season one with the odd moralizing and relationship drama of season two. Add a...
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Episode 5.06: “Movin’ Out”
(Spoilers lurk below.) True to its title, this episode is about moving forward, leaving behind the safety of the familiar for the often-frightening specter of the unknown. Blaine is going to audition...
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Episode 5.07: “Puppet Master”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Up to now, season five has mostly been mired in mediocrity, but now we have our first genuinely awful episode of the season. “Puppet Master” is slow, boring, unfocussed, bizarre,...
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Episode 5.11: “City of Angels”
(Spoilers lurk below.) Welcome to “The Quarterback Part II.” Er, I mean “City of Angels.” This was probably the second-best episode of the season, even if that’s not a very high bar. At the same time,...
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