Glee

Once in a while, TV come out with an amazing show that not just entertain but brought out serious subject with subtlety that only entertainers could. Glee is one such show.

When it first come out, I thought it was quite refreshing to have a sort of a musical on TV. I always love broadways because singing and dancing are the truest forms of entertainment. But then TV sort of stray from such show and seemed to focus more on drama and reality show. Audiences are more drawn to drama then anything else. When I first heard about it... I thought oh well, another teenage-bopper series about high schools students just like Beverly Hills 90210, The Hills, Melrose Place....or shows of such subjects.

But Glee turned out to be more then story about teenager's angst. It deals with serious subject matters using musics and songs as the medium to delivers them. Set in an American high school, it focuses on the Glee club of that school. It is sort of like performing art club. They seem to always have the geeks or the looser as members.

Week after week, they came out with the most amazing cover version of famous songs of my time and in between deals with serious matters like acceptance in society, popularity, teen pregnancy, finding love....growing up. Last week they did a take on John Lennon's Imagine that blew me away. They had a group of deaf students singing in a sign language which made me listen to the lyrics intently. It is one of the best song ever written... and Glee did it justice and more.

Today they tackle the subject of deceptions and the prices you have to pay. It is the worst of vices... lying especially to your love ones even with the best reasons are just wrong. Once you are discovered, nothing good will come out from it. You just hurt them more. So thanks to Glee.... I realized lying is not the solution for anything. When the truth comes out, and they inevitably will, you will have to pay the price.