Glee

I pressed play and the show began to roll, and I knew that it was going to be just another boring TV show about some teens in high school and the drama that those teens go through in their everyday lives. About half way into the show, I began to get interested as it grabbed my attention, and I also began to think that they have made a TV show that does more than just revolve around a person or group of persons during their high school life. In a way, it is similar to the same old boring, stereotypical TV show like others before it, but in a few ways, it is also a ground breaking TV show which breaks the rules of the social scale, and it also delves into the teacher’s lives. Glee is similar to the ordinarily boring high school TV show that most are used to, like 10 Things I Hate About You, The Secret Life of A Teenager, or, to take it back a some years, Dawson’s Creek. These shows, although different in their own way, has the same overall background, which is a group of kids in high school, and the drama that they must go through on an everyday basis. On the other hand, Glee is also breaking new ground in reference to the social cliques within the high school realm, as well as the teachers of the students. Glee is quite innovative in the way they decided to intertwine the different cliques of the high school. They took the football team hotshot jock, and had him also be the key member to the school’s glee club, where the not so popular kids hang out. This, in the few shows that I have watched, has never been done before. In the past, the show has always kept the cliques within their own spectrum. Until now, they have also yet to make a show which was a comedy drama, as well as a musical. Another key ground breaking point to me is that this show actually involves the teacher’s lives, exploring their everyday drama, and examining their different personalities and how they either work together, or fight amongst themselves. In the past, I can’t recall any shows which had this same idea with the teachers. The show’s innovativeness to combine the dramatic struggles of the high school students in the singing class, the mixing of social levels, which is like an unwritten rule, and the stirring in of the teacher’s dramatic lives make for a seemingly new and improved kind of TV comedy drama about kids in high school.