• Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: May 19, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Glee Image
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 49 Ratings

  • Summary: Three graduates of McKinley High settle in New York City as the fourth season of the show brings new hopefuls for New Directions, including an half-brother Puck never knew about.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Arts, Music
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Sep 12, 2012
    100
    One episode in, "Glee 2.0"--otherwise known as the fourth season--looks to be a winner.
  2. Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Sep 17, 2012
    75
    The decision to have some students graduate was a smart one, and splitting the action between New York (where Lea Michele's Rachel Berry is attending NYADA, the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts) and Ohio (where the remaining members of New Directions are regrouping) turns out to have been even smarter.
  3. Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Oct 25, 2012
    75
    The high school stories are tighter-focused, and the Manhattan ones breathe with Broadway romanticism. [5 Nov 2012, p.42]
  4. Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Sep 13, 2012
    60
    Individually, they [characters] remain fun, even in a preachy scene where Glee members forget the Golden Rule. But all the vignettes and moments need a show around which to revolve. Glee needs the New Rachel.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. From the second season till the third the Glee series was generally okay to me, there were some really great episodes, but now with Season 4's beginning the series is off to their rotes, They do bring a more mature sense to it, and I did love the Britney 2.0 episode and their interpretation of the songs. Expand
  2. this show is amazing i love this show shows everyone to be thereself and i love all the characters in season 4 and i love the songs to this is the best show i've ever watched Expand
  3. Yeah, I think it got better than the 3rd season failure. Failure may be a harsh word, but it was good only in the first episodes. Afterwards, it became dull. Season 4 opened a new perspective and it got better and stronger. Expand
  4. Can't do it, nope, can't sit through one episode. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Expand

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