After a dismal performance for two weeks running, the Glee I've known and loved is finally back again! No more crappy romances! No more Desperate Housewives-y acts of passion and lust! It's all gone, and hail the return of Glee!
This episode focuses on the trials and tribulations of Mercedes, Kurt and Finn. After joining the Cheerios, Mercedes is pressured by Sue to slim down because she was fatter than the rest. Encouraged by Kurt, Mercedes starts eating a lettuce leaf for lunch but sees everyone transforming into food around her and finally faints.
Mercedes finally decides to screw Sue with Quinn's encouragement by performing a moving rendition of 'Beautiful', a song depicting the insecurities of a teenage girl and encourages to entire school to accept themselves and their looks for who and what they are. Because, to hell with everybody, they are beautiful. This is one of my favorite moments of this episode, and with Mercedes' powerful vocals, has become one of my all-time favorite Glee songs, besides Defying Gravity.
Meanwhile, Kurt literally throws his father into Finn's mother's arms at a PTC, and as a result they fall in love. Kurt's initial reason for this was so that Finn would move in with him (since he has a crush on Finn and all) but things fall apart when he sees how his father bonds with Finn, the son he had always wanted. Feeling jealous, he and Finn decide to break their parents up but after a talk with Burt (Kurt's dad), Finn changes his mind. So Kurt is left alone at the sidelines, no longer in love with Finn, but hating him instead for taking his place as his father's son.
April is back too, this time as a mistress of a strip mall tycoon and owning a skating rink. After performing two duets with Will, he encourages her to dump the old man and get a life of her own. There's one scene where they start singing in Will's house and actually end up in bed together! I felt a little sick watching this but apparently nothing happened.
The best scene of the episode is when Kurt watches from the sidelines as his father bonds with Finn, doing their 'guy talk' when Kurt had painfully reminded his father that he's a guy too. I really pity Kurt, but it's actually his own fault that his plan to stay under the same roof with Finn backfired. Still, the emotion in his eyes, kinda hard to not feel for him.
All in all, I'm happy with this week's episode of Glee. There might have been certain unsavoury moments (like April in bed with Will) but on the whole it was a pretty good one, with three outstanding songs, performed by Kurt, Mercedes and April. Hopefully Glee continues like this and not fall by the wayside like before, becaue this is great!
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