The episode opens with just the glee actors doing Rocky horror picture show(cutting certain opening scenes like Damn it Janet). But even just a couple minutes in and you can tell this feels like a souless adaptation of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Luckily the episode quickly realizes this and goes back to being glee. Surprisingly they start addressing issues of a glee nature and also address the obvious problems inherent in doing Rocky Horror. In high school. Awkward.
The things this episode is doing best is that it utilizes the entire cast of the show. Including guest actor John Stamos. Amazing guest appearances. which lead to my favorite line "Mexican Terrorist Ants."
So the real reason this falls short? It skips over the part of Rocky Horror that is why it is a good time. The audience participation. It kind of loses the heart and soul of the show. On its own Rocky Horror is kind of meh. But it is the audience participation that brings into an entirely different type of experience. It's also borderline creepy. For example the closest glee will ever get get to a sex scene, only using Touch Me as a thinly veiled metaphor. And there are random shots of Santana and Britney dancing alone in the hall way during it. The implications the show makes are really creepy.
The episode is full of quotable lines from our one liner queens, Sue and Britney.
Overall the episode was an interesting expirement in doing a production of something, a line the glee club hadn't tried to cross in the past. If we ignore the ongoing problems of the show(references to going to Nationals without talking about trying to win Sectionals or Regionals) this was one of the better episodes the show has had since the back 9 of season 1 started.
And since I don't intend to review Glee of a regular basis unless I get bored I just want to bring up that this show is in the same problem Heroes had. If you look at Heroes, its original season order(the first 22 episodes) are good. After that? The show falls apart until its final season. Glee hasn't been good beyond that first 13 episode order. It has been repeating the same storylines over and over again.
Kudos though for actually using Sweet Transvestite.
Boo for forcing Time Warp to the end.
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