Glee Trouble
I just re-watched the pilot for Glee, the new sitcom Fox has been flogging all summer. Glee is High School Musical meets Election, which should make me really happy. I like HSM and I love Election. Plus, I feel I should automatically support any new show on television that isn’t about lawyers, doctors, or lawyer-doctors.
But beside feeling likes it’s a warmed-over Election rip-off, I struggle with the casting. Rachel, the Tracy Flick character, is all wrong. She’s much too conventionally pretty to be bought as a social misfit. At least Reese Witherspoon had that pointy chin she could play up. This Glee ingenue, however, is all perfectly plucked eyebrows and flowing hair. We need less Rachel McAdams and more Rachel Dratch.
But I’ll try to keep a lid on my carping, lest they replace it with Hot Chicks M.D. Esq.
