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| By: Jeff Lake |
The episode begins with Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) returning after punching Rachael's (Lea Michelle) jiggalo boyfriend several episodes ago and quitting the Glee club after a fight with William Shuester (Matthew Morrison). He has enrolled in college, somehow bunking with his best friend, Puck (Mark Salling), who is not even in college. As Finn is explaining his decision to be in school, kind of trippy scenes of the campus doing the Harlem Shake give the episode a humorous vibe setting the stage with much needed lighter setting with last week's gun scare episode.
Back at McKinley, the cast has gone a little nuts. Sam
(Chord Overstreet) finds himself having split personality disorder, Tina
(Jenna Ushkowitz) has a new tendency to be dressing steam-punk, and
Unique (Alex Newell) has started taking birth control pills even though
she is really a he. Marley (Melissa Benoist) is coming out of her shell
now to reveal to the club all the original songs she mentioned in the
previous episode that she wrote.Except for one tiny problem. Mr. Shue has taken a dose of the crazy pills himself. The theme of this year's regionals is revealed to be dreams, which he takes quite literally choosing only songs that have the word dream in it, including a song the glee club did the previous year. Will kind of losing his mind in this episode really throws a hardcore fan of the show off because this feels like the second or third time Will forgets that he is not a dictator, but a friend and teacher to these kids.
Will tries to make amends with Finn, who is shown partying hard with Puck down the halls of Lima University. Finn declines the apology leaving Will speechless before the scene fades away.
Rachael is preparing for her audition for the revival of Funny Girl, originally starring her idol Barbara Streisand. This scene is great in my mind because one of my favorite guest stars, Idina Menzel (Rent), reprises her role as Rachael's mom Shelby to sing Next to Me by Emeli Sandé. Shelby tells Rachael that she cannot invoke her inner Streisand and that she needs to find her own uniqueness to audition with.
(Next to Me performed by the mother-daughter duo)
Finn and Puck are hired by Lima University's fraternity after the stereo breaks to save the party. The two join the fraternity, despite Puck still not being actually enrolled at L.U.
(Finn and Puck fight for there right to party as they cover (You Gotta Fight) For Your Right (To Party) by The Beastie Boys.)
Marley calls a secret meeting between Blaine (Darren Criss), Sam, and Unique to sing one of her original songs. Glee spurts out these original pieces of music once in awhile and usually they are amazing. You Have More Friends Than You Know perhaps lack in quality is done on purpose to kind of represent the fact that Marley is less experienced than the others, but she has the potential to be a real song writer.
(You Have More Friends Than You Know is one of two original songs written by Marley who is striving to show off her talent.)
Will overhears the cast singing and re-realizes that he needs to listen to his students because this is their show, not his. He should not be taking any anger he feels on them.
Finn and Rachael have a short, heart to heart about her audition and her song choice for it. Finn tells her to sing something that has a lot of meaning to her. Which leads to the most nostalgic Glee cover ever: Don't Stop Believin' originally by Journey.
(Don't Stop Believing' returns to Glee, as Rachael invokes the happiness her friends gave her and sings an almost solo version of Glee's mascot song as she auditions for her role in Funny Girl).
After Puck finds out Finn skipped his first test, he sits him down and tells him to step up to become the best teacher Finn can become. Puck still does not enroll in classes but decides to stay in the dorm to push Finn and write his screenplay.
Will apologizes for his actions to everyone. He even asks Marley to teach them her original songs so that they can sing the songs at regionals, much to the newcomer's glee.
(Outcast, an original song written by Marley to end the episode on the same happy note that it started off on.)
Our Honest View gives, Glee; Sweet Dreams S. 4/Ep. 18 a 8.5 out of 10. For filling me up with the nostalgia of what makes Glee, well Glee. The reoccurring joke of Sam switching between personalities surprisingly never got old. This episode unfortunately is really lacking in actually advancing in the plot of Ryder's secret admirer, a plot point that everyone just wants to see end. While at the same time Sweet Dreams does an excellent job at reminding everyone that Glee has some underlining life lessons that really should not be ignored. Even if this is the third time this lesson has been done.
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