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.
