"I think you will be adding revenge to the list of things you're not good at including getting married, running a glee club, and finding a hairstyle that doesn't make you look like a lesbian." Considering the real-life orientation of the person making that statement, that's quite a funny comment. Anyway, Sue Sylvester certainly gets what's coming to her when it's found out she's responsible for the other two glee clubs stealing the set list of the New Directions from hew own McKinley High. Also, Rachel-having a sixth sense-finds out that Puck is the real father of Quinn's upcoming baby and tells Finn who punches Puck out. And when Emma moves her wedding to a few hours after sectionals, well, Ken's not too thrilled about that...With this, the thirteenth episode of the first season of "Glee", most of the loose ends are tied up as the McKinley glee club manages to win the competition despite the judges, which included that news anchor that Sue tried to date a few eps back, not knowing about the other teams' cheating. Quite an entertaining episode musically as well what with Mercedes performing "And I'm Telling You" in the beginning, Rachel doing "Don't Rain on My Parade" for the actual competition, and the whole gang singing "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "My Life Would Suck Without You", the latter on the occasion of Will Schuester's return. Looking forward to the rest of the first season's episodes now...
2 Reviews
"Sectionals" was a fine finale for the initial thirteen episode run of "Glee"
tavm11 October 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Shadow
ttapola8 January 2011
10/10? Meaning this is the best there *can possibly be*? On basis of what? Make no mistake, this is a great episode, but it's far from *perfect*. Too many IMDb users write reviews from *highly* subjective viewpoint, and while they are useful in telling the average reader, what the reviewer likes, they could be more than plot summaries (there is a different update section for that) topped of with a few gushing praises.
So, in a nutshell: great plot and character development, good acting, laughs and drama, *but* Glee's main problem remains: the playback/attempts at lip sync performances are so out of sync it's *distracting*. The singers clearly are talented - why isn't there anyone on the production side making sure the vocals match the lip movements? If bands can put out live recordings with 100% audio/video sync, why can't Glee do it? Until then, we get just a shadow of Glee's full potential, "only" 8/10 at best - like this episode.
So, in a nutshell: great plot and character development, good acting, laughs and drama, *but* Glee's main problem remains: the playback/attempts at lip sync performances are so out of sync it's *distracting*. The singers clearly are talented - why isn't there anyone on the production side making sure the vocals match the lip movements? If bands can put out live recordings with 100% audio/video sync, why can't Glee do it? Until then, we get just a shadow of Glee's full potential, "only" 8/10 at best - like this episode.
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