Fatal Attraction was a huge box office hit back in 1987, but it didn’t age all that well, with Glenn Close’s spurned mistress turning into a crazed horror movie villain intent on hacking her former lover to bits. Paramount+’s new series adaptation — debuting this Sunday; I’ve seen the first four episodes — aims to right that wrong by reexamining the central affair through modern eyes and showing us there’s more to the story. It’s an intriguing idea, but unfortunately, the misguided revamp only manages to lose what made this story exciting in the first place. The...
- 4/25/2023
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
There was a lot riding on last nights episode of Glee. Kurt (Chris Colfer) and Rachel (Lea Michele) had their Nyada auditions. The boys rallied to help Puck (Mark Salling) graduate. And we got a glimpse into Beiste’s (Dot Marie Jones) unhappy marriage. The episode started with hope but ended on a somber note for everyone.
It turned out that Puck wasn’t quite ready to graduate. He was struggling in geography and his plan to pass was to woo the teacher. When she blew him off he performed a rage flied “School’s Out.” After a few days of playing hooky Pucks dad (Thomas Calabro) came along. At first you would think he came to talk to his son, but what he wanted was money. Seeing his father was the wake –up call Puck needed to graduate. After Puck came back to school he enlisted the boys to...
It turned out that Puck wasn’t quite ready to graduate. He was struggling in geography and his plan to pass was to woo the teacher. When she blew him off he performed a rage flied “School’s Out.” After a few days of playing hooky Pucks dad (Thomas Calabro) came along. At first you would think he came to talk to his son, but what he wanted was money. Seeing his father was the wake –up call Puck needed to graduate. After Puck came back to school he enlisted the boys to...
- 5/2/2012
- by Kelly Sater
- BuzzFocus.com
Glee went to a dark place this week. They've done that before, and created some of the show's best episodes in the process. Despite a few notable highs, this wasn't one of those times.
To summarize: Kurt was adorable in gold lamé pants, Dot Marie Jones was impossibly good as Shannon Beiste, Tina had dialogue and got to sing, Blaine was funny, there were three good songs, and can I please, please not have to write this recap? This episode made me want to lie down on my bed and cry and sob and never get up.
Everything is just terrible in Lima this week. Coach Beiste is being beaten up by her husband, and she says she's leaving him and everyone is supporting her and then she goes back to him, and Rachel chokes at her audition and cries and cries and cries, and at first I didn't care...
To summarize: Kurt was adorable in gold lamé pants, Dot Marie Jones was impossibly good as Shannon Beiste, Tina had dialogue and got to sing, Blaine was funny, there were three good songs, and can I please, please not have to write this recap? This episode made me want to lie down on my bed and cry and sob and never get up.
Everything is just terrible in Lima this week. Coach Beiste is being beaten up by her husband, and she says she's leaving him and everyone is supporting her and then she goes back to him, and Rachel chokes at her audition and cries and cries and cries, and at first I didn't care...
- 5/2/2012
- by christiekeith
- The Backlot
Fox Whoopi Goldberg on “Glee.”
Gulp. Dreams were dashed tonight in “Choke” for some of the characters who thought life couldn’t get any better.
For Coach Beiste, the knowledge that she is in an unhealthy, abusive relationship doesn’t prevent her from giving her husband a second chance. She’s trapped in a cycle of domestic violence.
For Puck, the dead-end of his miscreant ways looms closer as he prepares and fails his final exams. No graduation means permanent residency in Lima Loserville.
Gulp. Dreams were dashed tonight in “Choke” for some of the characters who thought life couldn’t get any better.
For Coach Beiste, the knowledge that she is in an unhealthy, abusive relationship doesn’t prevent her from giving her husband a second chance. She’s trapped in a cycle of domestic violence.
For Puck, the dead-end of his miscreant ways looms closer as he prepares and fails his final exams. No graduation means permanent residency in Lima Loserville.
- 5/2/2012
- by Raymund Flandez
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Next week’s Glee is so pivotal, it could change the lives of not one, not two, not three, not four… Wait, yes, four. It could change the lives of four — count ’em, four! — characters: Puck, Rachel, Kurt and Coach Beiste. And that’s just the first of the eight tantalizing teasers that TVLine has procured to tide you over ’til Tuesday.
7. There’s a spoiler right there in the episode’s title: “Choke.” (Hint: No one was on the receiving end of a Heimlich maneuver.)
6. Handed a plot in which Coach Beiste shares a surprising dark secret about her relationship with Cooter,...
7. There’s a spoiler right there in the episode’s title: “Choke.” (Hint: No one was on the receiving end of a Heimlich maneuver.)
6. Handed a plot in which Coach Beiste shares a surprising dark secret about her relationship with Cooter,...
- 4/27/2012
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
As we get closer to the May 22 season finale of Glee, the stakes are getting higher, which is evident in next week’s episode, “Choke.” EW got an early look at the hilarious, but also emotional hour, which finds Rachel (Lea Michele) and Kurt (Chris Colfer) auditioning for Nyada (in the form of guest star Whoopi Goldberg, who does a great, subdued turn). For Gleeks, this episode is a pivotal one since this is what the high schoolers, especially Rachel, have been working towards for the last three years. It does not disappoint. Both actors, especially Michele, deliver stellar performances.
- 4/27/2012
- by Tim Stack
- EW - Inside TV
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