Glee Season 6
Apr. 1st, 2015 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroGlee died the way it lived: Completely what-the-fuck off-the-rails insane. Season 6 began with a misery parade of epic proportions, danced through some pure fanservice (double gay wedding!) and a litany of under-used guest stars, and continued its long tradition of ignoring reality and professional qualifications whenever it darn well pleased.
(In a lot of ways, I was reminded of the final season of Deep Space Nine, where the network was busy with new projects and the writers had free reign to do whatever they wanted, so they did.)
In the end, the writers never could quite decide if Sue was evil, completely batshit, acting the foil, possessed of cosmic awareness or some combination thereof. The long tradition of forgiving characters their early sins to bring them into the happy family (from Schuster framing/blackmailing Finn in the first episode to Rachel marrying Jesse in the last) continued unabated. Burt Hummel retained his spot as the series’ most sane and rational adult, though the original breakdown (parents being generally capable but non-present, teachers being insane drama queens who mean well, all other adults being utter nutjobs, and teenagers being monsters who grow up into mentors) stayed fairly consistent.
The final episode itself was…fine, I guess? I didn’t get what I realized I really wanted, which was an Animal House-style credit roll with a line for every character who returned in the finale. We got to see what happened to the “core” characters (Schuster, Rachel, Kurt, Blaine, Sam, Mercedes, Sue; and to a lesser extent Artie and Tina), but they couldn’t spare a proper credit roll over that last big musical number to give us a sentence about Puck, Quinn, Mike, Brittney and Santana? Not to mention Unique, Ryder, Jake, Kitty, Joe, Sugar, Rory, or any of the season 6 new kids. Glee has had so many characters and they got most of those actors back for a three-minute cameo, they couldn’t manage a headshot and a sentence?
I think I stopped buying into the drama long ago, but the series still managed a few manipulative emotional beats to the last, the music and dance were consistently good (I hope the woman who played Jane in the final season goes on to something else musical, because she was amazing and criminally under-utilized), and I obviously stayed interested enough to keep watching. But I think it ended at a good point.
(In a lot of ways, I was reminded of the final season of Deep Space Nine, where the network was busy with new projects and the writers had free reign to do whatever they wanted, so they did.)
In the end, the writers never could quite decide if Sue was evil, completely batshit, acting the foil, possessed of cosmic awareness or some combination thereof. The long tradition of forgiving characters their early sins to bring them into the happy family (from Schuster framing/blackmailing Finn in the first episode to Rachel marrying Jesse in the last) continued unabated. Burt Hummel retained his spot as the series’ most sane and rational adult, though the original breakdown (parents being generally capable but non-present, teachers being insane drama queens who mean well, all other adults being utter nutjobs, and teenagers being monsters who grow up into mentors) stayed fairly consistent.
The final episode itself was…fine, I guess? I didn’t get what I realized I really wanted, which was an Animal House-style credit roll with a line for every character who returned in the finale. We got to see what happened to the “core” characters (Schuster, Rachel, Kurt, Blaine, Sam, Mercedes, Sue; and to a lesser extent Artie and Tina), but they couldn’t spare a proper credit roll over that last big musical number to give us a sentence about Puck, Quinn, Mike, Brittney and Santana? Not to mention Unique, Ryder, Jake, Kitty, Joe, Sugar, Rory, or any of the season 6 new kids. Glee has had so many characters and they got most of those actors back for a three-minute cameo, they couldn’t manage a headshot and a sentence?
I think I stopped buying into the drama long ago, but the series still managed a few manipulative emotional beats to the last, the music and dance were consistently good (I hope the woman who played Jane in the final season goes on to something else musical, because she was amazing and criminally under-utilized), and I obviously stayed interested enough to keep watching. But I think it ended at a good point.
