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A scene from the 'Glee' Whitney Houston tribute episode.
Glee plunged into the late Whitney Houstons music Tuesday with a ferocity some might say matched or exceeded some of Whitneys own.
Its Not All Right But Its Okay, when Blaine sang it to Kurt, became the cry of a wounded animal reduced to a single obsession: survival.
Saving All My Love For You turned into Quinns nightmare of darkness, fearing she would be saving that love forever because it could never be returned.
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And so it went on an episode that ricocheted between deep tension and high ecstasy.
Anyone who ever had a heart could not fail to be moved when Puck handed out gift bags to all his friends, each with its own individual shot glass that Puck had jacked from houses where I clean pools.
But Whitney songs dominated the episode, even in the moment when Rachel and Santana did a bump-and-grind to So Emotional and Santana had to admit that her three years of trying to make Rachels life a living hell had fizzled.
Say something annoying, Santana told Rachel, so she could remember why she didnt like her.
The most interesting tribute to Houston, though, was so subtle it almost felt inadvertent.
Quinn, who lost movement in her legs when she she was injured in that accident where she was texting while driving, went into rehab with Joe and immediately fell for his gentle hand s and kind eyes.
Okay, people fall in love with their therapists and nurses all the time. This is the time when the therapist fell in love right back, which created two separate but equally large problems.
Quinn was convinced Joe didnt really love her, and no one could ever love her, because he was grossed out by my chair.
Not exactly true.
The real cause of Joes ambivalence was his Christian faith, which tells him that desires of the flesh are weaknesses that contravene the teachings of the Lord.
Joe mentioned this to his friend Sam, a fellow believer, who said hed rationalized it all out. The world is different now from Christs day, said Sam, so the rules have changed. You can be a believer and still get some action.
Or, said Sam, you can stay old-school, in which case you have to decide if you want to get close to God or close to her.
Where this circles back to Whitney is that she spent much of her life wrestling wit h that same dilemma: the peace and comfort of her inner spiritual soul set against the pleasures and sometimes ravages of the flesh.
Whether or not Glee was deliberately nodding to Houstons own struggles, it did set Joe up to eventually tell Quinn, When Im with you I dont care what God says about sins of the flesh.
Top that.
Elsewhere, Kurt had that bruising argument with Blaine, but then Emma maneuvered them into making up by getting Blaine to admit hes sulking because hes going to miss Kurt when Kurt graduates and goes to New York, leaving Blaine behind.
Kurt promised they would Skype every day.
Kurt didnt make that same promise to his Dad, but they had the same kind of Im gonna miss you confession scene.
Meanwhile, Will admitted to Emma that he may have the worst case of empty nest syndrome on the whole show.
Tell us something we didnt know.
Thats why he and Emma have to get married in May, he explained, beca use he wants the kids to perform at the wedding and hes afraid if they wait until fall the kids wont come back for it.
Emma was sympathetic, but not sympathetic enough so she would agree to get married at a KOA campground where they could power the stage with trailer hookup lights.
And then presumably celebrate using Pucks jacked shot glasses.
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