The Post’s Asmahan Garrib recaps the latest episode of Glee:
Mini review: Coach Sylvester is back with a mission to ruin sectionals. mr. Schue gets caught up in hairography. and Quinn test-drives Puck as her baby daddy.
Recap: there was no subtly in delivering this week’s Glee message. Distractions was the word on everyone’s lips: in their eyes, a purpose and on their heads, hair.
Sue Sylvester returned in fighting form this episode. none of that act of caring, glimmer of humanity nonsense she delivered in the past few episodes. no, this week she brought the insult slinging, destroy or be destroyed attitude that has made her the most beloved character. Paranoid she is leaking sectional routine information to rival schools; mr. Schue pays Jane Addams Academy a visit. there, Ms. Hitchens, played by Eve, informs him that her Glee girls may be delinquents, but they are not cheaters. and so, Will apologizes by proposing a friendly scrimmage that allows the Jane Addams’ girl an opportunity to use McKinley’s auditorium.
The Jane Addams Academy choir put on a raunchy, under-clothed, bum-shaking, hair-thrashing version of Destiny Child’s Bootylicious. mr. Schue actually looked worried (I wasn’t sure if I just watched the same performance he watched, since my only reaction was horror). Rachel quickly approached him and explained hairography. She told him that their performance was all smoke and mirrors, with a lot of hair whipping to distract from their lack of dance ability or vocal talent. mr. Schue somehow takes a liking to this idea and decides to incorporate it into the New Directions repertoire.
Meanwhile, Quinn considers keeping her baby and wants to tryout Puck as the father. to keep Finn distracted while she spends time with Puck, Quinn enlists Kurt’s help. She convinces him to give Rachel a makeover so Finn will find her more appealing. Kurt sabotages the makeover. he knows that Finn likes the natural, wholesome look, so he gives Rachel the Grease makeover: cat suit, permed hair and excessive makeup. When Rachel comes-on to Finn, her new look garners an unpleasant reaction. to put it like Finn, she looks like “a sad clown hooker.”
With Rachel keeping Finn busy, Quinn invites Puck to babysit Terri’s sister’s children. together, Quinn and Puck lull the little devils to sleep by singing them Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach. Happy with their parenting skills, Quinn tells Terri that she is keeping her baby. to Terri’s dismay, she realizes that she now has no way out of her lie. to buy herself some time, she buys mr. Schue an old car to fix-up in an effort to distract him until she comes up with a new plan.
Quinn’s plan to raise her baby with the real father, Puck, backfires when she discovers sexy text messages, “sexts” with other girls in his phone. Puck explains that she can’t expect him to remain faithful to her all the time. so, Quinn returns to Terri and solves her problem yet again. She tells Terri that she will give her the baby because mr. Schue will make the best father.
The Glee coach from the School for the Deaf pays mr. Schue a visit to voice his feeling of discrimination. if the Jane Addams Academy choir was invited to scrimmage with New Directions, it is only fair that he invite the School for the Deaf choir. mr. Schue agrees and for the first time we get to see New Directions hair fueled, epileptic dance mash-up of Beyonce’s Crazy in Love and Hair from the Broadway play of the same name. Awful is really the only word to describe it. The deaf students watched in embarrassment before taking the stage for their version of John Lennon’s Imagine.
In what is definitely the best performance of the season to date, the School for the Deaf set aside any distractions and performed an almost tear evoking, sign language version of the classic that lifted New Directions out of their seats. they sang alongside the signers, showing mr. Schue the power of a raw, real performance.
So, cutting the dreadful hairography from their set list, mr. Schue introduces a new song to take its place. Tina led the group in Cyndi Lauper’s True Colours: no dancing, matching outfits or hair flipping.
As the Glee group put all distractions aside and performs from the heart, Coach Sylvester reveals herself. She assembles a meeting with the Glee coaches from Jane Addams and the School for the Deaf to betray mr. Schue. She gives them New Directions’ set list and prompts them to cheat, waiving any unethical opinions. “Never let anything distract you from winning,” she instructs the other coaches.
Defining Scene: If every song Glee ever performed were this version of Imagine, it would be well worth tuning in every week.
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