10 Awful TV Shows With Incredible First Episodes
8. Glee
Who could forget those few months in 2009 when the Glee Cast’s cover of the Journey classic ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ was all that seemed to be playing on the radio?
First performed in full at the end of the show’s first episode, the platinum certified song encapsulated everything that the pilot was. Electrifying, new and with enough pep to get even the most cynical listener on board.
Glee’s debut hour showed that good television didn’t have to be grim, dark, morally complex fare to keep its audience engaged. Sometimes there’s nothing wrong with just having a little fun with your favourite characters for sixty minutes a week.
But while the covers of popular tracks remained pretty good throughout the show’s run, the same cannot be said for everything else. Glee was yet another teen drama that, as time went on, became more and more about cardboard caricatures making decisions that nobody with two functioning brain cells would ever make.