Episode One Syndrome

One show I've been struggling with is Glee. As a Christian, should this show be on that side bar to the right of my favorite television shows? Lately, Glee has been making some choices that may be hurting or may be growing their audience. Let me explain.

Glee has been choosing to develop very sexual plots. In their first season, they had a very strict plot where they wanted to go. But, after taking a break and returning in the late winter/ early spring, they had what I'd like to call "Episode One Syndrome." What's Episode One Syndrome? Well, when starting up a show, whether for the first time after a break, a season premire, and especially the pilot episode (very first episode of the show) there is going to be a lot of material that draws a general audience into the show. This includes several things like alcohol, drugs, and sex. Now, this draws a general audience, but as a Christian, this makes it difficult to discern between "Episode One Syndrome" and it being a show contaminated and only filled with this kind of material.

At the beginning of Glee, there was some "E.O.S" in it's pilot episode, but it improved. However, come season two, the "E.O.S" never went away. Sexual references made and acted upon, and a lot of them have been homosexually related. It's something I'm not comfortable watching. I don't feel comfortable having that show on the screen when my seven year old sister is walking around the room.

"E.O.S." may be considered "good business." There are people out there who don't usually watch the show who are drawn in because of some of the more raunchy things, but they're not full time viewers. So, here's my suggestion....

My anecdote for E.O.S. is to express all views on the show. If E.O.S works to draw in viewer like that, I think that going into depth in things like religion would also draw in more viewers. If they could express multiple viewers, they would find, in fact, that their viewership would then be multiplied as well.