Glee

This is one of my favorite t.v. shows, and when I watched the pilot episode again, I really tried to see what was the message in this show. When I was watching Glee, it's about a group of kids, who aren't very popular, and they are all different. The kids are always the odd kids out in school, and they want to make a change for themselves. When they see the signup sheet for Glee Club, it gives them hope. The teacher who runs the Glee Club, Mr. Schuester, fights to allow the Glee Club, because the kids feel invisible around the popular people, and just in the whole school, even to some of the teachers. There was nothing that I didn't understand.

Some of the kids didn't even want to do Glee Club, because they thought that they were going to get made fun of. These are the kids who already feel out of place in their own school, and because of what everyone thinks, they are afraid to do something that they love. The character Rachel has always been picked on. She would always put videos of herself on her myspace singing, and people would make fun of her. When she went to sign up for Glee Club, she always put a gold star sticker next to her name, because she knows that she's going to make it big someday.

The character Finn, is a jock, but when Mr. Schuester hears Finn singing in the boys locker room, it gives him hope that there's more like him that have talent, and are afraid to show it. Finn is pressured by his football team to not do Glee Club. They said to him that it's either Glee Club or the team. Finn does both, because he wants to do both, and he doesn't see the problem.

When you first watch this episode, you realize how unsupportive Mr. Schuester's wife is about Glee Club, right when he brings it up to her. His wife even thinks don't bother with the kids. She is also "pregnant" and she wants him to get a better job. Mr. Schuester decides to quit teaching and doing Glee Club, when he all of a sudden hears the kids singing " Don't Stop Believing". I think this song has a huge influence with this episode, because its a message for the kids singing it to not give up, and also to Mr. Schuester to not give up on something that they all love and have a huge passion for.

I found this interesting video. It has a good message, and it relates to this show really well.

I think this show represents teenagers in many different ways, because all of the teenagers in this show are all different. They are all hiding something. They are all afraid to show who they truly are, because of what their peers might think, and also their teachers. I think the main message in this show is showing that you shouldn't be afraid to show who you are and not care what others think. Even though it's hard for these kids to not care what their peers think, they become stronger doing something that's different instead of trying to follow the crowd.