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Gleecap: Rumors, And Also Some Fleetwood Mac

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Posted by Rae Votta on 05/04/2011 at 1:51 PM Recaps

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Rumours > rumors > Sam Crying > Fondue for Two > Songbird > Those Adorable Children > Artie’s Slip Up > Terri Schuester Why Do You Still Exist?

Last night’s Glee was all about rumors, and also Rumours, the Fleetwood Mac album. I won’t pretend to be a Fleetwood Mac scholar, but that puts me on an even ground with 99 percent of Gleeks who are probably hearing these songs for the first time. For all Glee’s inconsistency, this is the most well done episode in a while. Nothing is too out there to throw viewers off, there’s a solid major plotline that works together with the minor ones and lasts the entire episode and a sparing use of Sue’s wackiness that doesn’t disrupt the flow of the story. Plus, Sam Evans finally makes me stop wanting to pretend he never transferred to McKinley and Santana continues to shine. Throw in a Kurt and Blaine scene and this would have been close to perfect.

The first of many rumors is born on Brittney’s web show, Fondue for Two, which is amazing and should last the entire hour. (I’d watch days of Brittney S. Pierce eating hot cheese.) Mercedes and Tina are her guests, and Brittney outs Santana to them before showing off her very overweight cat. Mercedes and Tina seem shocked by this—are they blind? Seriously? The club’s tendency to gossip plays right into Sue’s maniacal hands. Pointlessly dressed in crazy costumes at The Lima Bean, she devises a plan to restart the school paper, The Muckraker, in order to spread rumors and break up the club. I don’t get how Terri is involved in this at all, but oh well.

The paper’s first issue causes a rumble in the choir room with news that a “blondie former cheerleader is having a secret moonlit rendezvous” with Sam at a motel, and a “prom queen candidate is spending a lot of time in the closet.” Will turns to a boozy dinner with April Rhodes, back after her all-white production of The Wiz flopped, to try and figure out how to encourage unity. She points him to the 1977 Fleetwood Mac album, which put drama to good use to make great music. To illustrate this idea they perform “Dreams” for the club, which results in the kids sharing a lot of meaningful looks (so many that this episode could have just consisted of silence and meaningful looks and we would have gotten 75 percent of the plot no problem).

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Of course April didn’t stop in Lima just for the benefit of kids. She’s decided to go the original musical route by producing CrossRhodes: The April Rhodes Story, and needs to use the McKinley auditorium to rehearse since she’s low on funds. It’s always a thrill when Kristin Chenoweth comes back to the show; she’s one of the few over-the-top characters who simply works in the Glee world over and over again. (Spoilers for their New York filming confirm her character will in some way play a part in the season finale, too.)

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