Family Safe.... NOT
More Sample of the Trashy GQ shot.
Posted on 10/22/2010 8:16:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was somewhat stunned a few weeks ago when I was told by one of the broadcast professionals in the television world (a new-er world for me), that the award for Family Friendly Show of the year by some industry panel of muckity-mucks was… GLEE.
Not that I’m claiming to be some “holier than thou” who had never watched an episode…
I will admit for the better part of season one I downloaded singles, joined facebook fan pages, and wondered what it would be like to be 15 again and in the same class as Lea Michelle’s Rachel. (Ok so I’ve always had a thing for the singers… I know she has a huge mouth… but she sings.)
But here’s the thing three weeks ago when the franchise decided to dedicate and entire episode to the idea of “God” and the best they could evoke as the theme of redemption for the week was to have “Grilled Cheezus” end up motivating the male lead into Michael Stipe’s “Losing my religion” I knew I couldn’t take much more.
Then last week while my new five month old was devouring a bottle in our living room, the shot of Santana and Britney (two female cheerleaders) came on screen, making out in bed, that was the last straw.
No children, being front of a television in the 8pm hour should be exposed to that kind of pornographic stimulus. None.
And ladies, before you question whether or not it IS pornographic to have two completely clothed size 2 cheerleaders, (one of whom had a breast enlargement procedure), one on top of the other kissing passionately, on screen. Ask your husbands, regardless of what they say, watch the look on their face – it will tell you all you need to know.
The point is, this kind of show is nothing new to television. The naked breasts and butts of NYPD Blue, broke the barriers to “R” rated sexual content on television years ago.
But it is NOT appropriate for the family hour, or the hour following (8-10pm EST) in America’s prime time.
Add to the fact that GLEE had so much potential as a franchise to encourage the development of young people to communicate to the world the ideas that are important to them, yet failed to live up to it is a genuinely sad reality.
GLEE’s producers, having not fully quenched their thirst for pedophiles to lust savagely over the out-of-the-ordinarily fit co-stars of the show, gave their blessing for one more step into the abyss.
GQ had permission to photograph the two most attractive females and the male lead in psuedo-sexual-menage-est-trois suggestive photos in which the most talented singer to come along in America in a long time, gets to be reduced to how tight her glutes look in a pair of Victoria Secret’s panties.
So forget the lofty goals of the writers of GLEE–if they ever had any. It’s not an important television franchise of significance. It’s trash set to a soundtrack.
And every pedophile in America, not only–can’t get enough, but is eager for more.
It follows the template. It started as a relatively safe show and is now morphing into its envisioned raunchy potential. Television shows do this. They are designed with this in mind.
My wife and I used to watch it. I was impressed with the music and productions. This year the show is just sleezy.
I guess the gay theme that is on this show every week
was family friendly?
I have a over the top gay step son and this show is designed to promote the lifestyle and all the perversion it entails.
I’m trying to find a new way of saying “who cares” but I’m coming up blank.
So I’ll leave it at... “Who cares?”
This stupid stunt (with young adults posing in a young adult men’s magazine) has worked perfectly for the insipid show. I’ts all over the news and hell, it’s on FR now.
Make it go away already.
Good grief. She must eat a raisin for lunch and a garbanzo bean for supper...then make herself throw up.
most every show now on tv seems to devolve into soft porn unless it’s a show that is fact driven. that’s why i quit tv watching 2 years ago. don’t miss it at all
What do you expect from a teen soap opera?
“...and wondered what it would be like to be 15 again and in the same class as Lea Michelle’s Rachel. (Ok so I’ve always had a thing for the singers… I know she has a huge mouth… but she sings.)”
First of all, Seek Help!
Secondly, my son is 14 and we STILL don't let him watch FAMILY GUY, (a cartoon), much less a show that does NOTHING but spout the “party line” like GLEE.
That's all I needed to know. Sort of like voting for the opposite of whoever/whatever the Boston Glob endorses.
We watch the following, none of which could be considered soft-porn;
NCIS, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Justified, Modern Family, White Collar, Supernatural, Nikita, Big Bang Theory, Leverage, Terriers, stuff like that.
Perhaps you need to change channels?
I have never watched the show with sound up. It has been on at the gym when I have been there. The cheerleader on the show is H-O-T-T.
Did you notice the title is caps?
GLEE:
Gay
Lesbian and
Everyone
Else
Yes, it’s a real acronym.
Things that make you go “Hmmm...”
You have just listed about every show my hubby and I watch. lol. (I’d add Psych, Monk, The Closer, and Criminal Minds. lol)
Oh yeah, I forgot Psych and Closer. No porn in any of those.
We watched the first season but have stopped watching it. Its way to raunchy for young children. It needs to be moved to a 9:00 time slot.
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