Did Mary McNamara of Fox give the new TV show “Glee” a good review?
By MARY McNAMARA, Television Critic May 19, 2009 The only real problem with “Glee,” Fox’s new musical comedy, which premieres tonight, is that viewers will have to wait four whole months for the next episode. That’s a long time but wait we will because wait we must: “Glee” is the first show in a long time that’s just plain full-throttle, no-guilty-pleasure-rationalizations-necessary fun. Heaven knows why it took a network so long to cash in on the “High School Musical”-generated frenzy. Nickelodeon took its shot earlier this year with “Spectacular!” and “Glee” unabashedly holds the best of both shows up to the dark mirror that is the mind of creator Ryan Murphy (“Nip/Tuck,” “Popular”). His McKinley High is real high school, a place where moments of shining exultation are surrounded by pits of despair, tripwires of petty rivalries and pathetic hierarchies — a place that leaves such a permanent imprint on the collective psyche that “high school” has become an adjective and its own genre
he only real problem with “Glee,” Fox’s new musical comedy, which premieres tonight, is that viewers will have to wait four whole months for the next episode. That’s a long time but wait we will because wait we must: “Glee” is the first show in a long time that’s just plain full-throttle, no guilty-pleasure-rationalizations-necessary fun.
