'Glee'-cap: "Child Star"
Raina Deerwater ‘16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer
The whole point of this episode was to show that Rachel (Lea Michele), Shue (Matthew Morrison), and the audience Glee thinks it has to show the glee club that they care. Even though no one does care. At all. Cause these people are boring. We are not going to root for Spencer (Marshall Williams) the gay football player to seduce a ukulele playing, beanie wearing, hobo seeming dude. Maybe we would if Spencer was more than a cardboard cutout with good biceps and a bad singing voice.
This is summed up best when Rachel tries to pump up the glee club and they are not receptive, because and alumnus is just going to come to steal their thunder. It’s a very good point, because no one gives a crap about these poor innocent bland characters. They are just so lame. But don’t worry, they are about to get lamer.
Also, the portrayal of him is vaguely anti-Semitic. Whenever Myron monologues, there is vaguely Jewish music playing in the background, like he is a villain with theme music. Also, do they even know how a Bar Mitzvah works? That it might actually be an important ceremony as opposed to a punchline. Coming from Glee, it all makes sense though. The whole idea of Rachel being Jewish has been a punchline from day one, and just when we thought we were done with all that horribleness her comes good ol’ Myron.
At least one of the new girls, Jane (Samantha Marie Ware), can really sing. She uptown funked up that bar mitzvah real good. And one of the incest twins is into her. The sad thing is that, it would be a more entertaining episode if there were actually incest. That’s when you know a show has really hit a low point: you pray for despicable crimes because that would make this at least a show that you didn’t fall asleep to.
Overall Episode Grade: D (Or a B for BORING)
For future reference:
Actors of fully Jewish background: -Logan Lerman, Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mila Kunis, Bar Refaeli, James Wolk, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julian Morris, Adam Brody, Esti Ginzburg, Kat Dennings, Gabriel Macht, Erin Heatherton, Odeya Rush, Anton Yelchin, Paul Rudd, Scott Mechlowicz, Lisa Kudrow, Lizzy Caplan, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gal Gadot, Debra Messing, Robert Kazinsky, Melanie Laurent, Shiri Appleby, Justin Bartha, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Margarita Levieva, Elizabeth Berkley, Halston Sage, Seth Gabel, Skylar Astin, Mia Kirshner, Alden Ehrenreich, Eric Balfour, Jason Isaacs, Jon Bernthal, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy.
Andrew Garfield is Jewish, too (though I don’t know if both of his parents are).
Actors with Jewish mothers and non-Jewish fathers -Jake Gyllenhaal, Dave Franco, James Franco, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Alison Brie, Eva Green, Joaquin Phoenix, River Phoenix, Emmy Rossum, Rashida Jones, Jennifer Connelly, Sofia Black D’Elia, Nora Arnezeder, Goldie Hawn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Amanda Peet, Eric Dane, Jeremy Jordan, Joel Kinnaman, Ben Barnes, Patricia Arquette, Kyra Sedgwick, Dave Annable, Ryan Potter.
Actors with Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, who themselves were either raised as Jews and/or identify as Jews: -Ezra Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alexa Davalos, Nat Wolff, Nicola Peltz, James Maslow, Josh Bowman, Winona Ryder, Michael Douglas, Ben Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nikki Reed, Zac Efron, Jonathan Keltz, Paul Newman.
Oh, and Ansel Elgort’s father is Jewish, though I don’t know how Ansel was raised.
Actors with one Jewish-born parent and one parent who converted to Judaism -Dianna Agron, Sara Paxton (whose father converted, not her mother), Alicia Silverstone, Jamie-Lynn Sigler.