Glee Watch: They've Created a Monster
Posted by James Poniewozik Wednesday, October 27, 2010 at 9:39 am
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/10/27/glee-watch-theyve-created-a-monster/Spoilers for last night's Glee coming up:
In one sense, "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" was exactly what I expected: an episode in which the cast of Glee performs songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with the thinnest of plot justifications for doing it and characters behaving inexplicably in order to fulfill the episode's music demands. In other words, it was no better than I thought it would be, nor was it bad in a way that especially surprised me.
Where the episode did become interesting—if not actually good—was not in the show's longterm stories (which it did little to advance) or the musical's themes and sexual complexities (which it watered down or ignored), but in how it worked as a weird, unintentional metacommentary on the GQ Glee photo spread the world freaked out over last week.
