Yeah Stilwell, you got pwned.

I started watching it because the Mrs sings and likes watching any shows where that's the main focus, but I ended up liking it. As others have said it has a dark sense of humour and Jane Lynch's acerbic coach is very amusing. The female lead can really belt it out, as can most of the cast to be fair. I'm not really a fan of the male lead's voice, but it's not terrible - just a bit weak for my tastes.

As for all the gay jokes, well there are more than enough attractive females to satisfy openly straight men's urges. In fact there's only one gay character in the whole show. A couple of the cheerleaders are bi, but that is surely something that would appeal to a lot of straight men? I think the dumb blonde one is quite funny as well. I can see it having a limited lifespan, but as long as they don't try and spin more than a few seasons out of it the show should remain entertaining. They do need to give some of the ancillary characters more to do though. The goth girl doesn't have much to do now that her stuttering plot has gone, and the asian/black guys are pretty much window dressing.

mc_serenity wrote: But for the life of me -- why can't they have someone writing original songs for the show?? Having the actors do covers of famous songs all the time is just redundant.

I don't think real show choirs and glee clubs ever do original songs.  That's probably best left for the theatre clubs.