The difference is Glee was never meant to be realistic. Ryan Murphy's sensibility is, as he says in The New Yorker this week, "baroque." Jason Katims' sensibility, at least in this show, seems to be "flattened out." The inability to be convincing is the least of its problems. Glee's inability to be convincing was a feature...
Good point, and I've heard others make similar arguments. But even if the style of GLEE was intentionally over-the-top "baroque," allowing for fantasy musical numbers in real-life settings, etc., I wouldn't describe as "baroque" a plot point about a public school teacher quitting his job, without having another one lined up, because he wants to find a non-teaching job with "good benefits." Rather, I'd choose the word "ridiculous." |
