The pilot kinda let me down with the some cheesy, predictable high school stuffs that I've seen too many before.

Best quote of the first episode goes to Mercedes

"Oh, HELL to the no! Look, I'm not down with this background singin' nonsense. I'm Beyoncé, I ain't no Kelly Rowland"

Best performance is the choir version of Rehab.

Hope it gets less cheesy next episode

The most interesting character to me was the cheerleader coach. She seems more like a drill sargent then someone interested in cheering.

Other than her there didn't seem to be any relatable or likable characters. I live in a high school football town and I've never known players who had so much time on their hands that could get the guy in a wheelchair and stick him in the portapoty so they could tip it over with him inside.

I didn't know they still had Glee clubs. I was under the impression they died out in the 1950s.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who liked this... Yeah, horribly cheesy, it was hilarious though... "You think this is hard, try living with hepatitis, that's hard" Guilty pleasure here...

I didn't love it as much as I thought I would, but I did like it. Seems like the main inspiration was Hamlet 2.

What they need to do is get the fuck rid of anything even remotely resembling High School Musical, and keep with the snarky writing, and I'll watch.

There should be more character development in the future because none of them seem believable for now.

And the songs in the future will include "Bust Your Windows", "Last Name".

I want to hear those terrible autotune songs in choir version

I saw the commercials for this whilst in Merka. Is this not a shitty ripoff of Fame?

^Most like a boarderline anti-High School Musical.

^^with a little Britannica High thrown in... Why does the UK always get the best cheesy shows...

If "HSM" and "Scrubs" had a bastard offspring.

I liked this quite a bit, and the cheesiness behind it was one of my favorite aspects of it. Bit of the pilots did drag though, but overall it was quite good and fun. And I'm quite amused that the Glee version of Don't stop Believing is the Number 1 download.

I question Fox's strategy though holding the rest of the series until the Fall.

We Glee while waiting for the Idol Finale to get spooled ahead enough so we could zap most of the dreck.

The contrast between the singing on this show vs Idol was amazing. Whoever they have singing here blows the Idols away. It was fun in a tragic, painful in many ways to watch way. We'll certainly be tuning in next fall.

Like Slacking we're dumbfounded that Fox is blowing the capital they got from airing the pilot after Idol. Get all those viewers interested and then let them forget about it. They should have run it as a summer series for at least 12 weeks and then bring it back next fall or spring.

Oooh, a homosexual deviant teacher fired within the first five minutes, a cute, white, heterosexual (eventual) couple as the leads in the club, and the Asian, Black, and androgynous male(?) singers relegated to backup...well, it IS Fox...

Despite the offenses, I can't hate... It's cute, well-written, almost compelling...I'd like to see it surprise me, though.

I'm telling you, it's a TV show version of the movie Hamlet 2. Which is a scream, by the way. Don't miss it when it comes to your ondemands.

I liked this pilot. Jane Lynch and Stephen Tobolowski were amazing, and I liked the misfit kids in the group.

However, I CANNOT STAND that the songs are pre-recorded, autotuned, and overproduced. It's ridiculous. I can understand having the actors sing to a pre-recorded track, but it just sounds completely unnatural, and really took me out of liking the show.

...agreed, grima

The lipsynching really bothered me and sounded way too perfect for a floundering highschool glee club after less than two weeks and no guidance.

Kinda like if Danielson had perfected blackbelt level karate before Mr. Miyagi had even taught him to wax on / wax off...

Otherwise I absolutely loved the show!

*oh, and yes the Idol "casting" was obvious - black diva, gay boy, differently abled, pretty white girl, pretty white boy. This is more like the accidental group of students you would only find assembled together in detention (think Breakfast Club)

^Wasn't FAME about a school for talented kids?

HSM is more of a Disneyfied version of Grease. Making Glee sort of like HSM/Grease without the catchy original pop tunes of the other 2 shows.

Eh, I think it'll be a cute and clever show -- which means that Fox will cancel it after 3 weeks.

I'm right there with Grima on this one. I found the show to be pretty funny, and at least entertaining, but when the kids started performing Don't Stop Believing at the end and you could hear the autotune in the voices it kind of killed the "suspension of disbelief" that I liked about the rest of it. I mean, cause let's face it: the show is in no way representing what real high schools are like anymore, so aforementioned suspension of disbelief is important.

Well, the kids' back stories were pretty broad spoofs, so I think they kinda set the tone for the Hollywood treatment.

I really have no criticism for Don't Stop Believing. It was just so pretty.

Eh, I think the jock and cheerleader actors were pretty spot-on. ;)

My DVR cut off the last five or ten minutes of the pilot episode because of stupid American Idol going overtime.