This Week in Television - June 7-11, 2010

Glee
I liked that New Directions and Vocal Adrenaline performed songs at Regionals from two of the greatest 80's rock bands ever (Journey and Queen), but both teams butchered their songs and the performances were pretty underwhelming even though we as the audience were supposed to be amazed. New Directions actually put on a better show at Sectionals, so it sort of makes sense that they won there and lost here. Also I like that they stopped with the "Finn is a superstar" mentality, because he's nowhere near as talented as Rachel. And even though I would love to see Sue Sylvester crush the glee club, it's nice seeing her show compassion. The final scene with her and Schuester was great, with him showering her with sappy Hallmark compliments while she responds "I'm about to vomit directly into your mouth." Sometimes I feel that way about Glee too, Sue. But the season's over, and while it is a highly average show, it could've been worse. Just a bit.

Happy Town
This show needs more M.C. Gainey so I was glad to see him awake again. I'm not sure if the ending with Dan Farmer taking off with Georgia and Andrew was meant to reveal that he is the magic man, or just make us think he is. Hopefully the latter, because it's too big of a mystery for an easy and obvious reveal like that. It worked on Dexter when they showed us who the ice truck killer was before any of the other characters knew, but I don't think it would fly as well here. Or maybe the person strangling Grieves at the end was supposed to be the magic man, since we didn't see his face.