Up until a few years ago, I would have never considered myself a Madonna fan. That is until one day when I was going through my CD collection, and I realized I owned almost every Madonna CD that existed at that point - including the soundtrack to “Dick Tracy”. So, as you can imagine, I really enjoyed this episode.

I am generally wary of shows that are running high on the hype, and we ‘gleeks’ have been salivating over the Madonna episode from the second we found out about it. It totally lived up to the billing.

This was an episode where Jane Lynch got to shine, and we get the story of her Nazi hunter, absentee parents as the instigator of why she hates Will’s hair. A story so completely ridiculous that is told with such a straight face, you almost believe it. Either way, those jokes are one of my favorite running gags of the show, and the addition of stilts to the cheerios was hilarious.

I loved how ‘Like A Virgin’ was used, which was funny and touching. Using the empowerment of women as the focus of all the story lines was a fantastic way of making Madonna relevant to the show and the glee club.

Right now glee is in that wonderfully giddy spot, a hit show in it’s first, glorious year. With some of my favorite shows ending this season, it makes me nostalgic for the excitement I felt that first season of Lost; the anticipation for each new episode of 24 back on that first horrible day for Jack Bauer. It’s nice to have a shiny new show to be all goofy about again.

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Oh, glee, how I love you. Why did you stay away for so long?

I take no shame in my unabashed love for this show. From the very first moment of the pilot, I was enthralled, and my love grew and grew, right up to the big sectionals episode. Then, in their infinite wisdom, Fox took glee away from the adoring throngs, and made us wait. A not uncommon move by a network these days, but annoying nonetheless.

Anyhoo, as much as I love, I was fully prepared to not be thrilled with the returning episode. I knew it would be a huge set-up episode for the rest of the season and the road to regionals, and those kind of episodes have a way of being disappointing somehow.

But no! I was mostly wrong. Jane Lynch’s Sue Sylvester was awesomely horrible, Mr. Shue was adorable and didn’t sing any stupid rap mash-ups (thank god), Rachel was her usual self centered self, Finn was a perfect representation of the clueless teen boy (and still perfectly cute), and we got to see into the shallow and hilariously empty minds of Brit and Santana (“Did you know dolphins are just gay sharks?”). With the exception of having to hear “Hello, Again” at all, I enjoyed all of it.

Also, we got the wonderful addition of Broadway lovlies Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff as potential villian members of Vocal Adrenaline, the main competition to our New Direction glee-ers. Fun!

If you haven’t seen the glorious Sue Sylvester version of Madonna’s “Vogue”, get on that right now, because next week? Madonna week!!

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