TV commentary:
Rise- So I had only been vaguely aware of Rise until the Superbowl, when they had the commercial with the kids singing "Glorious", and my interest was piqued. As I've said in other places, it seemed to have a FNL meets Glee sorta vibe. Which, I was sold already, but then when I discovered the plot was them trying to do "Spring Awakening", I started getting really excited.
Heh, from the very moment it starts, you know its by the FNL guy, because it starts with someone driving by picturesque scenes of the town. But instead of it being Texas, its a steel town in Pennsylvania, and there's no voiceover by Slamming Sammy Meade talking football.
Also, they refer to Robbie as "QB1" in the first minute, which do people really do that? While
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clevemire thinks since I went to Catholic school, we couldn't have a "real" football program compared to like the South and Midwest (and as
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7500centfish our high schools were considered pretty good in the NYC/Long Island high school football leagues), football was still relatively big in my school, and no one was referring to the quarterback as QB1.
Anyways, I enjoyed it, it was sorta a more serious version of Glee- I mean, Lou practically Finn-ed him by blackmailing him into auditioning, just like Mr Schue did to Finn. But really, it felt more like FNL, except in a different, albeit still blue collar town, and there was a plot where like Riggins decided he wanted to be in a musical.
Apparently, the critics have seen the entire season already, and I've heard them say the music is more theater fair than the poppy choice Glee had. But that's not a bad thing! I would love if we got more Spring Awakening tracks. Or even some Hamilton! But yeah, we got a glimpse of them doing some of the songs during a montage, but I would really love to hear some full length versions of "Mama Who Bore Me" or "Totally Fucked" or "Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind".
I'm also guessing this will satisfy the theater nerds who wanted to like Glee but felt it didn't do enough Broadway.
Speaking of musicals on NBC, so the upcoming Jesus Christ Superstar, John Legend is Jesus, Sara Bareilles is Mary Magdalene, and presumably Alice Cooper is Judas? As long as he does a good job on "Heaven on Their Minds"!
Legends of Tomorrow- Interesting way to get the Death totem.
( spoiler cut )Flash- I thought it was fun to see the switchup.
( spoiler cut )Izombie- Interesting, they just glossed over that in the beginning.
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