This blog posting is likely to make my youngest daughter and another young friend probably a little sad.  I have shared an appreciation of the show, Glee… (consider previous posts regarding Sing It, Duets, and Grilled Cheesus)  … until this season.

And, now, looking back, I think I have to concur with entertainment  blogger Alyssa Rosenberg who suggests “that Glee is an immoral show, but not for the reason cultural conservatives believe. It’s become a show that’s not just sloppy but exploitative and manipulative of serious societal issues and human experiences.”

Rosenberg suggests tha “It’s one thing to put a character you want to flesh out fully through a lot of difficult things. It’s another to use trauma as a sparkly toy to distract and manipulate your viewers in the absence of your ability to tell a coherent story, or to give a character you are invested in an emotional experience…. It’s one thing for bringing the underexamined lives of gay teenagers, of abused women, of gay people of color into the mainstream of popular culture. But spotlighting them only to use their pain to accrue credit to yourself isn’t admirable. And it’s not entertaining.”

And that’s why you have not heard much about Glee from me lately and are likely not to hear of it again.  Meanwhile, check Rosenberg’s rational as to why not watch.