Glee Vitamin D Review

This was one of the funniest episodes yet for Glee, delivering one laugh out loud situation and scene after another. Things got off to a great start with Sue on full throttle, as she interrupted Will and Emma – a great reveal, as it came quite a ways in to an earnest scene between the two, during which we didn't know Sue was sitting right nearby. I loved Sue talking about how she tried to stay quiet, but the sickeningly sweet goings on had put bile inside her – though Sue's best moment was when we watched her write in her diary, and learned that her big dream was to own a hovercraft. Why does that somehow make sense?

You have to appreciate how far this show is willing to go. When Sue decided that she could help cause problems by getting Terri a job at the school, her methods including tripping the poor, old school nurse down the steps – revealed in a hysterical quick cut joke.

While Sue then took a backseat for the remainder of the episode, plenty of great material followed. Finn was given some of his strongest material yet, as we got inside his mind in a bigger way, as he fretted about how busy, and thus exhausted he was, "like presidents, and newscasters and mob bosses", with a schedule that included being "Captain of the Football team… and Glee stud." And a great pop culture reference had Finn talking about his attraction to Rachel, despite the fact that, "She kind of freaks me out, in a Swimfan way."



There was also a nicely done scene between Quinn and Rachel, as Rachel leant her pregnant classmate support. It was well done seeing Quinn simply admit, "I've been awful to you," and tell Rachel, "I would have tortured you if the roles were reversed, you know?" Just by her saying that, you almost got the idea that maybe she wouldn't have been so bad, if the situations truly were reversed. The show could have perhaps let the Quinn/Rachel rivalry play out a bit longer (though I'm sure it will return), but for now, these were some sweet moments between them.

Egged on by Terri, Ken proposed to Emma, which gave us another one of the episode's best lines, as Ken assured Emma the ring he got, "Was cubic zirconium. I know how affected you were by Blood Diamond." Emma accepting Ken's marriage was hampered by how ludicrous all of her caveats were – it was funny to hear her say that her conditions included them living in their own places and keeping the marriage a secret, but if she's lonely enough for settle for Ken (and is openly dating him already), these rules seemed a bit much.

There were only a couple of musical numbers this week, but they were terrific and funny – thanks to the kids all being on drugs at the time. Terri giving the kids a meth-connected pill led to some great moments, which the cast rose to the energetic challenge of. Lea Michele gave just the right dorky spin to Rachel's announcement that they were performing a mash up of "Halo" and "Walking on Sunshine" because what America needs right now is, "sunshine and optimism.. Also, angels!"

The end of the episode found Sue made the new co-chair of the Glee Club, alongside a very unhappy Will. Only six episodes in, I wonder if Glee may be going to the "someone comes in or out of the club, thus disrupting the dynamic" well too fast, too quickly. Still, putting Sue in direct, constant contact with our Glee-ers is hard to resist – when is more Jane Lynch a bad thing?

SOURCE: http://tv.ign.com/articles/103/1033339p1.html