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Glee had me bawling this week at least twice.
In this very special episode of Glee, Finn finds God - well, Jesus! In his grilled cheese sandwich! Which leads to the best moniker for Jesus - Grilled Cheesus! He starts praying to Grilled Cheesus for the totes important things in life: for the football team to win their game, that Rachel to let him touch her bewbs, and to get back his position as quarterback. His sudden religious conversion carries over to Glee as well, as he asks him club members to perform a song for Jesus!
Meanwhile, Kurt's dad has a heart attack and is in a coma, and Kurt is really bummed about it. Glee thinks they can help him through the power of prayer and spiritual song, but - GASP! - Kurt's an atheist!!! OH NOES!!! After Sue gets wind of Glee singing about God, she convinces Kurt to lodge a complaint, which he does, and - OMG! - Glee isn't allowed to perform religious songs! Turns out Sue's an atheist too, because her sister has Down Syndrome and Sue would pray to God as a child to "cure" her sister, but it never happened, so she concluded that God doesn't exist! Like, OH MY GOD!
Rachel, Mercedes, and Quinn go to the hospital and sing and pray for Mr. Hummel, but Kurt walks in, gets pissed, and asks them to leave so that his Sikh acupuncturist can stick needles in his dad. The next day in Glee, Kurt sings a slow version of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and there's all these flashbacks to Kurt and his father. He explains to the club that he has faith, but it's in his and his father's love, not God. Mercedes invites Kurt to her church, which he accepts after some hesitation. She and her congregation dedicate the service to Mr. Hummel and pray and sing for him - AWWWW!!!
Sue visits her sister and tells her about not believing in God, and then asks her if she does. Her sister tells her that she does and that God doesn't make mistakes, which gives Sue a change of heart.
Finn, meanwhile, feels reaaaaally bad about having his last prayer - becoming quarterback again - granted, after it causes Sam to be injured. He tells Emma about praying to Jesus and Emma tells him that all of these things were not caused by God, but more earthlier things: Coach Beiste is actually a really awesome coach; Rachel let Finn touch her bewbs (not God); and the kid who injured Sam was on steroids. Finn, feeling despondent, loses his faith and performs, "Losing My Religion". Nooooo!!!
Kurt sits by his dad's bedside and talks to him and cries, and then Mr. Hummel's hand twitches! YAY!!! The episode ends with Glee singing "What if God was one of us" and Finn eating Grilled Cheesus.
It's tiring to write an episode summary like this :/
Seriously, it was a great episode. I cried on account of both Sue and Kurt. I felt that the message wasn't so much, "Believe in God!" as "Believe in SOMETHING, even if it's your relationship with your parents." I'm Agnostic, so my belief in a supreme being is undecided. Personally, I don't know if God exists or if we're even supposed to know; what matters is how you live your life. I do have faith, however. It's not in God or a messianic figure; it's in the spirit of an individual to overcome. As an Agnostic, I usually get hit with the misconception that I don't believe in anything (people group us with Atheists), so I was really happy that Glee didn't go this route.
I was also glad that they're bringing back Sue's sister. I know that she serves as a vehicle for Sue's realizations and changes of heart, but I could see where they're really trying to make her a character that stands on her own. I love how she insisted that Sue was letting her win, until Sue admitted that she was. It subtly calls Sue out for treating her sister like she's a child. The show did the same thing with Becky - the Cheerio who has Down Syndrome, too - in the season premiere by letting her have this amusing commentary on Finn's tryout for Cheerios and how he was "embarrassing himself." I feel that the writers are starting to treat people with disabilities with more dignity and respect than they have been before, by letting certain characters be more than just caricatures of society's interpretations.
I could be wrong, of course.
What I didn't appreciate about the show as how the club was forcing their religions onto Kurt - especially Rachel, Mercedes, and Quinn. It's alright for them to have religious faith, but it's not right for their characters to make the assumptions that Kurt has to be warm and understanding and open to their religious assistance, while they completely ignore his wish to not have their faith pressed upon him and don't respect his choice not to believe in God. A good example is the hospital scene: Their intentions were good, but at the same time, they were being disrespectful and audacious.
Kurt's accepting Mercedes invitation to go to church was a stretch of the imagination, and I like to think that he was more touched by the communal feeling of so many people caring about his father, despite never having met him. I'm so happy that the episode didn't end with him having a religious conversion, because that would have cheapened the whole episodes; and that it ends with Finn "losing his religion" shows the fragility of any type of faith, even if it's in a grilled cheese sandwich with a burn that looks like Jesus Christ.
Glee needs to have more episodes that aren't about Rachel and her unbelievable relationship with Finn, or about Will being creepy. (Will is seriously turning into a creeper; last week's Britney Spears episode made me D: over how he was acting towards Emma)
Also, does anybody else find it amusing/sad/very telling that Puck prayed for Kurt's dad in Temple and admits it to Finn, when all Finn is doing is praying over a grilled cheese sandwich for stupid shit?
In this very special episode of Glee, Finn finds God - well, Jesus! In his grilled cheese sandwich! Which leads to the best moniker for Jesus - Grilled Cheesus! He starts praying to Grilled Cheesus for the totes important things in life: for the football team to win their game, that Rachel to let him touch her bewbs, and to get back his position as quarterback. His sudden religious conversion carries over to Glee as well, as he asks him club members to perform a song for Jesus!
Meanwhile, Kurt's dad has a heart attack and is in a coma, and Kurt is really bummed about it. Glee thinks they can help him through the power of prayer and spiritual song, but - GASP! - Kurt's an atheist!!! OH NOES!!! After Sue gets wind of Glee singing about God, she convinces Kurt to lodge a complaint, which he does, and - OMG! - Glee isn't allowed to perform religious songs! Turns out Sue's an atheist too, because her sister has Down Syndrome and Sue would pray to God as a child to "cure" her sister, but it never happened, so she concluded that God doesn't exist! Like, OH MY GOD!
Rachel, Mercedes, and Quinn go to the hospital and sing and pray for Mr. Hummel, but Kurt walks in, gets pissed, and asks them to leave so that his Sikh acupuncturist can stick needles in his dad. The next day in Glee, Kurt sings a slow version of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and there's all these flashbacks to Kurt and his father. He explains to the club that he has faith, but it's in his and his father's love, not God. Mercedes invites Kurt to her church, which he accepts after some hesitation. She and her congregation dedicate the service to Mr. Hummel and pray and sing for him - AWWWW!!!
Sue visits her sister and tells her about not believing in God, and then asks her if she does. Her sister tells her that she does and that God doesn't make mistakes, which gives Sue a change of heart.
Finn, meanwhile, feels reaaaaally bad about having his last prayer - becoming quarterback again - granted, after it causes Sam to be injured. He tells Emma about praying to Jesus and Emma tells him that all of these things were not caused by God, but more earthlier things: Coach Beiste is actually a really awesome coach; Rachel let Finn touch her bewbs (not God); and the kid who injured Sam was on steroids. Finn, feeling despondent, loses his faith and performs, "Losing My Religion". Nooooo!!!
Kurt sits by his dad's bedside and talks to him and cries, and then Mr. Hummel's hand twitches! YAY!!! The episode ends with Glee singing "What if God was one of us" and Finn eating Grilled Cheesus.
It's tiring to write an episode summary like this :/
Seriously, it was a great episode. I cried on account of both Sue and Kurt. I felt that the message wasn't so much, "Believe in God!" as "Believe in SOMETHING, even if it's your relationship with your parents." I'm Agnostic, so my belief in a supreme being is undecided. Personally, I don't know if God exists or if we're even supposed to know; what matters is how you live your life. I do have faith, however. It's not in God or a messianic figure; it's in the spirit of an individual to overcome. As an Agnostic, I usually get hit with the misconception that I don't believe in anything (people group us with Atheists), so I was really happy that Glee didn't go this route.
I was also glad that they're bringing back Sue's sister. I know that she serves as a vehicle for Sue's realizations and changes of heart, but I could see where they're really trying to make her a character that stands on her own. I love how she insisted that Sue was letting her win, until Sue admitted that she was. It subtly calls Sue out for treating her sister like she's a child. The show did the same thing with Becky - the Cheerio who has Down Syndrome, too - in the season premiere by letting her have this amusing commentary on Finn's tryout for Cheerios and how he was "embarrassing himself." I feel that the writers are starting to treat people with disabilities with more dignity and respect than they have been before, by letting certain characters be more than just caricatures of society's interpretations.
I could be wrong, of course.
What I didn't appreciate about the show as how the club was forcing their religions onto Kurt - especially Rachel, Mercedes, and Quinn. It's alright for them to have religious faith, but it's not right for their characters to make the assumptions that Kurt has to be warm and understanding and open to their religious assistance, while they completely ignore his wish to not have their faith pressed upon him and don't respect his choice not to believe in God. A good example is the hospital scene: Their intentions were good, but at the same time, they were being disrespectful and audacious.
Kurt's accepting Mercedes invitation to go to church was a stretch of the imagination, and I like to think that he was more touched by the communal feeling of so many people caring about his father, despite never having met him. I'm so happy that the episode didn't end with him having a religious conversion, because that would have cheapened the whole episodes; and that it ends with Finn "losing his religion" shows the fragility of any type of faith, even if it's in a grilled cheese sandwich with a burn that looks like Jesus Christ.
Glee needs to have more episodes that aren't about Rachel and her unbelievable relationship with Finn, or about Will being creepy. (Will is seriously turning into a creeper; last week's Britney Spears episode made me D: over how he was acting towards Emma)
Also, does anybody else find it amusing/sad/very telling that Puck prayed for Kurt's dad in Temple and admits it to Finn, when all Finn is doing is praying over a grilled cheese sandwich for stupid shit?
