This week on Glee, Rachel Berry finally makes it to Broadway — and naturally, everyone else is forced to treat it like the moon landing. In 5x17, “Opening Night,” Rachel spirals over bad buzz and opening-night nerves, Sue takes a deeply unnecessary field trip to New York, Kurt’s loft becomes a site of multiple crimes, and Will Schuester pops in just long enough to cry and leave. It’s Rachel’s big moment, and Glee makes sure absolutely no one gets out alive.

This episode we break down:
🎭 Rachel Berry’s opening-night ego spiral
📰 One bad preview and suddenly it’s DEFCON 1
🗽 Sue Sylvester’s cursed New York adventure

Is the episode a little self-indulgent? Of course. Is it also one of season 5’s more entertaining messes? Honestly, yes.

We wouldn't want Glee any other way.

xoxo,
FotR

This week on Glee, everyone gets tested — emotionally, medically, and our patience. In 5x16, “Tested,” Blaine spirals over a cronut-based body image crisis, Kurt enters his gym bro villain era, Artie discovers that sleeping with everyone at film school has consequences, and Sam Evans somehow becomes the only functioning adult in New York City. Yes. Sam Evans. Bless him.

This episode we break down:
🥐 Blaine vs. the Cronut Industrial Complex
💪 Kurt Hummel’s sudden transformation into That Guy from the gym
🦠 Artie Abrams and the extremely literal STD storyline
🙏 Sam Evans praying in a bathroom and still making the best decision in the episode

We talk Klaine’s increasingly miserable relationship arc, the bizarre fat-shaming plotline assigned to an objectively fit man, and how an episode about sexual health somehow becomes mostly about… cronuts and insecurity.

Is it messy? Absolutely.
Is Sam Evans the moral center of the episode? Also yes.

Because it’s Glee.

xoxo,
FotR

We made it to the season finale of Teen Wolf, but will the pack make it out? In 3×24 "The Divine Move," the pack go toe-to-toe (and claw-to-sword) with the Oni, but controlled this time by Void. They're taking every territory on the board — the Sherriff's station, the animal clinic, the hospital — and by the time they get to the school, our pack's had about enough.

While Derek and his small gaggle of ex-Alphas go face-to-face with Void and the Oni, Scott, Stiles, Lydia, and Kira head inside, and right into a winter garden of horror. There's flashbacks, there's an attempted ritual sacrifice, there's the birth of the Muderpod™, and no one can tell what's real.

Does Void-slash-The Nogitsune get transformed and irrevocably dusted? Does Isaac trap its weird, firefly soul in a box made of Nemeton wood? Does Derek get attacked in his own home by someone who was supposed to be dead and have a coma-esque dream that's eerily inspired by An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?

Suppose you'll have to listen and find out.

xoxo,
Fandom on the Rocks