Glee Season 1 Episode 14 Review

So this season picks up with the guys coming back to school after winning sectionals and thinking that life is going to somehow change.  As Rachel, Mercedes and Kurt are walking down the hall feeling good about themselves and discussing how this  will change their status they get hit with a dose of reality. Blue slushies to the face!  I guess things really haven’t changed.

Mr. Schuester is arguing with the principal over whether the Glee club should still remain even though they won sectionals.  The principal believes that it all comes down to the ever out of wack budget, not to mention the Cheerios need the auditorium to practice since it’s starting to get cold out.  I know you’re thinking, the Cheerios don’t have a coach since Coach Sylvester was suspended right? Wrong! She’s baaa-aack!!!!  Apparently that is  the reason for suspensions, to reinstate.  How can this happen after she was suspended for leaking the set list at sectionals? More on that later…

Finn is now playing basketball, and he sucks!!!  I can’t totally blame it on his lack of basketball skills, he is a little depressed.  I mean who can blame him? He’s dating the biggest geek at the school Rachel, his ex girlfriend who at the time was the head of the Chastity club, got pregnant and had him believing the child was his only to find out that the father is really his best friend Puck.  It’s really hard not to understand why he’s a little “off his game”.

Coach Sylvester is back to torturing kids as she cuts off the long pony tail of one of the male students because he confuses her with his “shemale looks” before Will *Mr Schuester* catches up with her in the hall to find out how she got reinstated.  Check this.  She arranged a dinner with her and Principal Figgins and while he was not paying attention she slipped him a mickey and the next thing he remembers is waking up naked next to her in bed.  No, they didn’t do anything but he doesn’t know that and she has pics of them together to blackmail him into reinstating her.  Will decides that since she’s back then they should just bury the hatchet but of course Sue is not having it and will stop at nothing to have him and the Glee club destroyed.

At Glee Club practice, the guys try a new strategy to win regionals, and are tasked this week with coming up with new numbers that involve the word ‘Hello’ in them. He then goes to see Emma *The guidance counselor that he fell in love with last season* in her office and talk about going on a date and starting fresh.

In Sue Sylvester’s office she is berating the two cheerio Spies that she planted in the Glee club to destroy it on their inability to get the job done.  She wants them to target Rachel by trying to go after Finn.  She hopes that this will drive Rachel mad and make her quit. Without Rachel, in her eyes, the Glee club will fall apart.

Later on, Mr. Schuester is talking to Finn about how he can get out of this funk that he’s in.  He wants him to sing a song to help find himself.  He picks “Hello, I Love You“.  This seems to help him gain some confidence as  they show a montage of him going through his school days filled with more confidence and ends with him performing it at Glee practice.  After the song the Cheerio spies come up to him and ask him out on a date, with both of them.

Later in the Cheerio spies set up the date and Rachel asks what they want and begins to question if Finn is being honest.  He then breaks up with her.  He feels he needs to find his “inner rock star” before he can be with anyone else.  of course this devastates her and she calls him a scared little boy that’s afraid of dating her because of his reputation.

At Glee practice Rachel decides to volunteer to go first when asked who is ready to sing.  Looking straight at Finn with her hands angrily positioned on her hip she belts out All American Reject’s “Gives You Hell”  *One of my favorite songs ever if I might add *.  The other members join in to unknowingly help her talk about Finn.  Mr. Schuester gets upset because he doesn’t feel like they are taking this seriously and aren’t focusing. *Case in Point, the assignment was a song with “Hello” in it not just “Hell* they’re going up against clubs that are way more experienced.  After practice, Rachel is at the music store looking through “The very best of  Lionel Richies songbook” at  “Hello” sheet music when she is approached by Jesse St. James *Who is this guy? Well, he’s one of the singers in ‘Vocal Adrenaline’ AKA the best Glee group around 3 years straight* and he offers to give her some tips.  They decide to practice “Hello“ right there in the middle of the store.  After this impromptu performance he asks her out on a date for Friday night.

The two Cheerio spies are discussing who the hottest guys in the school are and they only seem to come up with Puck and Finn but they think Finn isn’t as hot because of his “dwarf” girlfriend.  As they are discussing this the camera pans to Finn sitting at the table right across from them.  They’re discussing him as if he’s not even around when he’s right there.  They decide to make a deal with him by him buying them dinner and then the’ll make out with him.  This will make his rep go higher or at least back to what it was pre Glee.

Will and Emma actually go out on a real date, As they dance he sings “Hello Again” by Neil Diamond softly into her ear.  He feels that this is the perfect song for them as well since it’s about a guy who has known this one girl for a long time but just as friends but decides to call her up and tell her how he feels.  They fall on the couch and begin kissing passionately before Emma stops him because she is nervous.  See she is a virgin and doesn’t want to rush things.  She’s still waiting on the ‘right one’.

The next day at school, Finn apologizes to Rachel for his behavior and wants to be with her and no one else.  Too late because Rachel has moved on to Jesse St. James. Finn tries to explain to her how suspicious it seems that they finally make it to regionals and the male vocalist of the rival group asks her out, but she seems oblivious or too hurt to see this.  He then runs to Mr. Schuester to tell him about it and hopefully so that he can fix the problem.

Back in Sue Sylvester’s office she is debriefing the Cheerio Spies on how the date went and realizes that they may be the two stupidest teens she has ever met in her life because they failed to get Finn away from Rachel.  They then tell her about Rachel and Jesse St. James possibly getting together and Sue is all over it.

Vocal Adrenaline is practicing their number ACDC’s “Highway To Hell“ as Mr. Schuester sneaks into the auditorium to watch.  After the group goes on a break he talks to the leader of the group about Rachel and Jesse’s possible dating.  She denies this, but before you know it they are back at Mr. Schuster’s place making out.  He stops the action before it goes too far.  They start talking about how all they think and talk about is Glee clubs and business.  She feels that he may need to take some time to reevaluate himself.

At the next rehearsal,the club is pissed because they found out that she is dating Jesse and they think/know that it will end up badly for them.  Vocal Adrenaline is an evil group that will do whatever it takes to win.  She seems to not even care because she doesn’t know how many more chances she’ll get at having someone want to be with her.  Real or not, she doesn’t care right about now.  They give her an ultimatum, either break up or she’s out and since they can’t kick her out they’ll threaten to quit then Mr. Schuester will be forced to kick her out.  They really believe that she is replaceable.

The next day, Coach Sylvester invites Rachel to see her. When she gets there she introduces Rachel to the “Mckinley High Old Maids Club”.  A bunch of misfit girls from all walks of life. *Craziness*.  She insists that Rachel go for it with Jesse or become an old maid.

Back at Will’s house, while Emma is meticulously setting the table for date night, Terry walks in.  She has come to pick up the two DVDs that she left when shes a DVD of jazz songs.  When Emma says that it has their song “Hello” by Neil Diamond on it, Terry quickly explains to her that the song was her and Will’s prom song.  Emma refuses to believe it so Terry tells her to ask him or better yet go to the library and look it up in the yearbook.

Rachel goes to see Jesse to ask him if he is playing her or really has feelings for her.  He laughs it off, then introduces himself as the real Jesse, not the lead singer of her rival, that cares about her and really likes her then begins kissing her.  This is all a ploy set up by his instructor but Rachel is too blinded by love to see.

the next day at school, Emma comes up to Will with the yearbook from the year of his Junior prom and he realizes that their song is from that moment.  It was an honest mistake, that he may have somehow subconsciously related his new love for Emma and his old love for Terry.  Emma tells him that he may need some time alone to figure out his own needs and reevaluate himself.  When he’s ready she’ll be right there waiting, but until then they can’t be together.

Rachel catches Finn in the hall and tells him that she broke it off with Jesse, he then tells her that he wants them to be together as a real couple.  She is rendered speechless by this.  Since she lied about breaking up with Jesse, she tells him that she can’t be with him because of the team and chemistry and all.  Finn is hurt and tells her he won’t easily get over her.

This episode ends with the Club  in the auditorium running through a dress rehearsal of “Hello, Goodbye” By the Beatles.