Glee

A rousing paean to the transformative powers of performance, Fox’s Glee looks and acts like nothing else on television. A critical and ratings success in its first season, the ensemble comedy/drama/musical follows the efforts of the William McKinley High School show choir—a crew of talented misfits—to win respect from their peers, or at the very least, to avoid the customary scorn and humiliation. Glee is distinguished by its layered, tonally fluid writing, dazzling musical numbers (which have burned up the charts on iTunes), and winning performances from Matthew Morrison as the club’s dedicated leader, Leah Michele as the precociously talented and utterly irritating star of the group, and Jane Lynch as a psychotic cheerleading coach bent on the club’s destruction.

Glee is produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Ryan Murphy Television.

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