Not filled with Glee.

I’ve just absented myself from ‘Glee’, the Fabulous New Rave Series hot from American TV. It’s Ugly Betty with dance numbers. Mother Mouse suggested sticking with it because it may have hidden depths. Well it sure looks like it! It’s already going down like a greased skydiver without a parachute. To our English eyes these are caricatures as uni dimensional as the original Superman. To imagine they have hidden depths is to confuse the plot twists of a scriptwriter, held in solitary, probably being waterboarded in Guantanimo Bay as we speak, until he’s written 3 series, with something, anything approaching the human condition! But it’s light and entertaining. No it’s not, it’s BOLLOCKS! This should not be watched by anyone aspiring to be human. It’s America’s limp attempt to come to terms with its 50 year ridicule of all us shmuck non celebs by suggesting a mixture of a nerd, fatty, ugly and cripple can make it too. So long as the real celebs get all the money they’re happy to give the no leg dancer centre stage, the no thumbs guy a spot as a card sharp and the fat girl a bit part in an anti cholesterol commercial. Of course the actors will be seen to have legs and thumbs and be perfectly formed as they walk the red carpet of superiority and assert their claim to the cash. At least Ugly Betty was just ugly. Now it seems we’re heading for paraplegic boy and grossly disfigured burn victim girl making it big as angels in ‘I’m in Heaven’, the Fabulous Even Newer Rave Series hot from American TV. Should we lap it up like a dog glee-fully tucking into its own yesterday’s sick or, in our polite English way, say “Keep your fucking plastic and stick it up American Express’s API? Seriously this is the stuff of emotional fundamentalism. Lets hear it for Ms Acid Beaver and her college cheerleaders. At least they have a chance of bringing down the evil empire from within. GW did his best but….