'Glee' Season 3 Premiere: Sue Gets Glitter Bombed (VIDEO)

After a less-than-stellar season two, Tuesday night's "Glee" season three premiere proved that Ryan Murphy learned his lesson and brought his band of misfit gleeks back to the basics -- show tunes, underdogs and more show tunes.

It's been a summer of changes for our McKinley High outcasts. Quinn quit the glee club, dyed her hair hot pink, got a nose ring, an "ironic tattoo of Ryan Seacrest" and joined the ranks of The Skanks -- that's her new badass crew. Meanwhile, Sam "Trouty Mouth" Evans moved away and left diva Mercedes all by her lonesome, but she didn't stay single for long. Mercedes has a new man this season, and he's definitely a jock. And then Lauren Zizies ditched the glee club because they were ruining her image. According to Puck, "She was the one that got away, really really slowly."

As for the rest of the gleeks, Kurt and Rachel are now BFFs planning to go off to New York after graduation, while Rachel's boyfriend Finn has no idea what he wants to do post-graduation, but we're not sure we see Finn living in New York City. Mike and Tina are still, well, Mike and Tina, and lovable blonde airhead Brittany is still spouting out the shows best one-liners.

For example: "Now Santana and I are like Almond Joy and you're a Jolly Rancher that fell in an ashtray."

Then there's Kurt and Blaine, who are still going strong after the summer. So strong, that Blaine transfers to McKinley to make Kurt's senior year more magical. Our year would be pretty magical too if Blaine serenaded us with "It's Not Unusual." We're sad that Blaine ditched his Warblers uniform, but it's pretty clear to see that blue and red are his wardrobe stables.

And let's not forget Mr. Schue, who's happily living with Emma (they even pack each other's lunches!), and still very unhappily fighting with Sue, who's out to get all of the glee clubs -- everywhere. But William Schuester is Mr. Nice Guy anymore. He stood up to Sue, said no to a hopeful (yet annoying) glee club member and even kicked Santana out of the glee club.

And that high school musical everyone's been talking about? It's "West Side Story." So who's going to be the Tony to Rachel's Maria?

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Comments

[inmyhumbleopinion]

02:37 PM on 09/21/2011

Back to basics shouldn't mean treading old ground. Where is this show going? If I hear Matthew Morrison say in yet another episode "we've got to get to Nationals", I reserve the right to create a new drinking game a la Hawaii Five-O's "book 'em, Danno". (And he is, btw, so under-utilized in that show. Too bad, too.)

Giving it one more try next week. Perhaps all the set-up will be done by then.

[richieroo]

02:11 PM on 09/21/2011

Not a bad episode - but a long way from perfect:

Kurt and Rachel were great, as was The Glee Project's Lindsay... but Sue Sylvester HAS to go!

http://www.remotepatrolled.com/2011/09/quick-take-glee-the-purple-piano-project/

[scooter51]

01:39 PM on 09/21/2011

worst


tv


show


ever

[Laxsmi de Potrero]

06:34 PM on 09/21/2011

puh
leeze

[JennMostrom]

01:31 PM on 09/21/2011

This show now has far too many characters, so it ends up going in a thousand different directions without focusing on anything in particular. I'm still struggling to figure out what, if anything, was the point of last night's episode, other than setting up over a dozen potential storylines for the season in a single hour. That's not to say I didn't enjoy parts of it, but it was a bit of a mess.

[allamericanelaine]

01:21 PM on 09/21/2011

Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas must be whooping it up for Sue Sylvester’s stand on the Arts being a waste of time. Unfortunately unlike Sue he isn’t fiction nor is his dislike of the ARTS!

[kandem]

02:54 PM on 09/21/2011

No kidding! I'm a former-band-director's wife who lives in Kansas. Between creationism, Phelps, and Brownback, to say it sucks here is an understatement.

[Wyl]

10:18 AM on 09/22/2011

Welcome to Brownbacki­stan, it's where Kansas used to be
Welcome to Brownbacki­stan, it's our new theocracy
Brownback and Koch call all the shots, we're governed by the rich
The wealthy all get wealthier and the rest can all eat s%#

(the video)
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=SLUfNPdir­dE

[LEX CENTRIC]

12:27 PM on 09/21/2011

people! i loved season 2, it dealt with major teenage issues, sexuality, death, tolerance of the impaired...not to mention my most downloaded season of songs ever. Glee is always good. sincerely
a true fan

[smile up]

12:22 PM on 09/21/2011

i loved lea michele and chris colfer scenes and their music number was really cute (good to bring oz to glee)

[Jazmo]

10:32 AM on 09/21/2011

Here's how much the 2nd season ruined it for me ... I completely forgot it was on and I'm not sure if I TIVO'd it.

[chiodo08]

10:17 AM on 09/21/2011

we know...we can here the song mutilations

[cdnbystander]

09:35 AM on 09/21/2011

I see Mercedes go the requisite black boyfriend. I wonder why it's okay when the guy is black dating a white woman, but the opposite is a cause for panic. Go figure.

[Rozanna]

09:34 AM on 09/21/2011

I liked Season 2.

[SunshineSuperman]

09:26 AM on 09/21/2011

Com'n, it wasn't that bad. I thought last nights season opener was good. Fun like the first season. I'm glad they ditched the serious, dramatic feel from last year.

[tcnsrq]

09:20 AM on 09/21/2011

Darren Criss....otherwise I slept through most of it....snooze fest

[karencares]

08:58 AM on 09/21/2011

Just sing.

[Theresa Weaver]

08:29 AM on 09/21/2011

I tried to watch Glee last night. I loved Season 1, and I watched quite a bit of Season 2. The premier was so bad though that I had to shut it off. I loved the music, but I can't suffer through the horrible plot any longer. So, I won't be watching Season 3. The plot was so awful last night, my dog got up and left the room. I think Glee has run its course.