Watching Glee has become a love / hate relationship. We despair over the same old re-treads of high school dramas, the emotive numbers that try and tell us how we should be feeling and the growing realisation that Will Schuester's relationship with the students is getting more and more inappropriate by the minute. Yet we still enjoy some of the big 'mash up' numbers and Sue Sylvester's rule of tyranny. Just once in a while that glimmer of genius rears its head and you stave off that lingering thought that you need to stop watching the show. Back in season one, Glee was something different. The songs felt fresh. Sue was at her most evil, in no small part due to the regular and brilliant Sue's corner. Most importantly, it was very, very funny. It became so big that we got Neil Patrick Harris in a Joss Whedon-directed episode and great theme episodes like 'The Power of Madonna'. So where did that magic go after the first season? Simply put, Glee had a single premise. The coming together of a group of socially awkward children, finding themselves through Glee club and riding their success all the way to Regionals. Every year since became about the Glee Club trying to retain that success, going one step further each time (season two to Nationals, season three as National champions). But everything in between just felt a little...forced. Had the ending of season one been altered to have the club win at Regionals (and maybe Nationals) and the show would have gone out on a beloved high. Instead it became a case of too popular, too fast, loosing that momentum the longer it went on.