Don't Stop Believin': Is Glee The Next Big Thing?

If you watched American Idol last night, chances are you caught some of Fox's new show Glee, which has being positioned as the television series that will replace oxygen in the near future. The only problem? It's not that good! (Though star Lea Michele is amazing.) I reviewed the pilot for the Observer.

After the jump, check out an excerpt!

Yet with all that good will, the problems with Glee rest squarely at the feet of Mr. Murphy. Truth be told, we’ve never seen his appeal—Nip/Tuck was only moderately entertaining during its first season and has now become unwatchable; his adaptation of Running with Scissors was one of the worst movies from 2006—but here he just seems in over his head as a writer-director.

You can read the rest here. And you can listen to what I'll readily admit is a pretty fantastic glee club cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" right here. Enjoy!