What I’m Watching: Glee

Glee: Season 2, Episode 3 “Grilled Cheesus” (B+)

After last week’s iffy Britney Spears episode, it’s good to see this show back on track in an installment that’s both hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. For starters, I can think of few things funnier than the Grilled Cheesus and the way that Finn started worshipping it, thinking that it was giving him all this good luck at the expense of other people. It tied in well with the episode’s overarching theme of religion, which enabled Rachel, Mercedes, and Kurt to have some pretty rocking solo numbers. Rachel’s Yentl reenactment, set outdoors because that’s the way that Streisand sang it, was quite entertaining and worked well to counteract the problem cited by Richter Scale in the comments last week about Rachel always needing to give an unnecessary introduction speech to all of her emotion-expressing songs. It’s nice to see Mercedes be a good friend to Kurt in his time of need, even if he isn’t so receptive to her approach. Tom O’Neil of Gold Derby is already writing about how this should be Chris Colfer’s Emmy submission, and I think I agree. He really did a terrific job, and Kurt carried this episode quite well. A surprisingly dramatic ending not related to Kurt featured Sue and Will in a rare moment of bonding, as Sue realizes that sometimes religion isn’t the worst thing in the world, and people need to express themselves in a whatever way makes sense for them. I’d call this installment a solid and multi-faceted episode!