A Man With An Agenda

Not much going on here - I picked it up at work along with a slew of other smartpop titles, only later finding out later how farmed out they were and sharing authors, and in the case of 'Filled with Glee' especially, hopelessly out of date.

As a Glee fan, I've never embraced the term 'Gleek', I have the love/hate relationship with the show you need to have in order to survive the roller-coaster of emotion and events that occur in every episode. This book was published after the first season so it has limited ground to work from and, of course, cannot anticipate the amount of change the characters are forced to undergo for reasons of plot until they're unrecognizable.

For example the Kurt who fiercely defended his difference to the face of bullies advises the trans character Unique in the third season to keep dressing like a boy and stay Wade so she could better fit in. We will not talk about Quinn.

With the exception of one essay - "The Twisted Love of Mr. Schue" by Jonna Rubin, that successfully argues that Will and Terri should have stayed together (!), these essays offered no revelations to me. If you are enough of a fan to want this book, you don't need it.