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| By: Jeff Lake |
Good day Honest Gleeks! It is time to turn up the power as the power went out on this episode of Glee, titled accurately Lights Out.
The episode begins with Will (Matthew Morrison) explaining that one of the rival schools' have been hiding a secret weapon and that McKinley's Glee club will have to bigger than their secret weapon to be able to beat them. About to begin a theme of epic songs, the power shuts down changing the theme and lesson of the week to unplugged. I love acoustic, unplugged, and raw emotion performances so this episode gave me high hopes at the beginning without disappointing.
To help with the power outage everyone in the school is given out flashlights so that classes are not canceled. Ryder's (Blake Jenner) crush plot continues through the darkened halls. Jake (Jacob Artist) questions why Ryder is still pursuing this girl after she has lied and stood him up several times now. Ryder hints to Jake that he told her something that he has not told anyone, something deeper than Ryder's dyslexia. Jake leaves Ryder to think after telling him he should consider opening up to the people who actually exist in his life.
The first performance of this song filled episode of Glee. Sam (Chord Overstreet) opens up a little explaining why he chose the song while sticking to his silly roots, but in summary: Sam kills this song. Ryder plays back up vocals to the song as the two cover You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, while Artie texts constantly to Sam's eventual dismay. Artie (Kevin McHale) takes his turn up to the stage but cannot bring himself to perform without the power or instruments behind him, slamming his head on the piano. Sam explodes on Artie and the rest of the club as how Sam's family being poor has always had to find ways to entertain his siblings and himself without power.
(You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling, by The Righteous Brothers covered by Sam and Ryder)
Ryder covers Everybody Hurts by REM in honor of all the pain everyone has felt. This song was not done acoustically, but as the concept to unplug his feelings. Not sure if this was done intentionally but Ryder was apart of a performance of this song on the last season of The Glee Project. After dumping his feelings out in the song he tells his classmates what happened to him. He was molested by his female babysitter when he was younger, as some of the guys in the class think he was extremely lucky, the girls and Mr. Shuester stand by his distress.
(Everybody Hurts by REM covered by Ryder.)
I love when older characters get some character development. Artie has a
brain blast as he finds a way to apologize to Sam. If they did a
performance without instruments, but with buckets, trash, bottles,
anything that is not an actual instrument. This is followed by the cast
covering Queen's We Will Rock You which I found to be done amazingly.I know I am one of the rare few to find Glee's covers of Queen songs to be a nice change to the songs that are still overplayed on the radio. You can't top Queen but Glee covers do change up the song in a good way.
(The entire club covers We Will Rock You by Queen without any actual instruments.
Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is back!
Kind of.
She is now a personal trainer at 23 Hour Fitness where she intends on making housewives cry. Blaine (Darren Criss) admits to her that he only rejoined the Cheerios to destroy her, yet he does have something else to tell her. The Cheerios really need her, they are falling apart without her. Sue watches the Cheerios practice from afar while her and Becky have a talk about how horrible the new coach is to her. Sue tries to play it off strongly, but it is obvious she is going to cave and try to come back to coaching.
Sue sings a cover of Little Girls from Annie which Jane Lynch will be starring in this summer on Broadway. A nice little cross advertising done by Glee which I thought was really cool.
(Jane Lynch has a rare moment to sing on Glee as she covers Little Girls from Annie.)
More old character development. In New York Santana (Naya Rivera), Kurt (Chris Colfer), and Rachael (Lea Michelle) work on a huge ballet performance with guest star Sarah Jessica Parker (seriously, I cannot see her as her character at all. I just see Sarah Jessica Parker. Not a good thing by the way). Santana admits to having wanted to be a ballerina, like all little girls (and Kurt) did when they were younger, softening her tough lesbian girl demeanor. The four of them cover At the Ballet from the musical The Chorus Line.
(The four sing At the Ballet)
The power returns to the halls. The kids all cheer. Becky is brought to the principal's office after getting in trouble with the new coach. She tells him that she had to get in trouble because she needed to talk to him about something. The scene ends here without us finding out what actually happened. Hopefully Sue will really be back.
Kitty opens up to Ryder after asking him out to dinner. She admits to him that she was also molested and that she understands what he went through. The bitch aura around Kitty is dropped completely from her which I thought was awesome. Kitty was too much like Quinn before her and I am glad to see differences between them now. After this scene Ryder is shown at the computer again talking to the unknown Katie. The two of them agree that this weird relationship they have works for them. After Katie goes offline for a few moments, Kitty shows up asking Ryder out again to which he declines. Ryder tells her that maybe after the Katie thing is figured out that Kitty and him can go out. To which she declines. The bitch aura goes back up due to Ryder's way of going about this. Perhaps I spoke too soon about Kitty's personality change.
With the power back on, the episode ends with one last song. Will tells them to sing one last song completely A cappella. The club sings a song I have been dying to hear them cover, The Longest Time originally sung by Billy Joel ending the episode.
(The Longest Time by Billy Joel closes the episode.)
Our Honest View gives, Glee; Lights Out S. 4/Ep. 20 a 8.0 out of 10.Plot and character development galore followed by tons of good music. The season is almost over, unfortunately hinting at how the season finale is going to go, but hopefully this journey will be worth the obvious ending that is coming. Hopefully the few hanging plot points like Ryder's crush will be revealed before the season is over. Until next week Gleeks, stay Wonder-ful.
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