The Glee Project Was Cruel: Exploiting "Weird Kids" for TV

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  @NickDiRamioTV · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @coolzworldd · 2 years ago

  Lol its not even June for 7 hours yet and the mesh tank is already making an appearance

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  @0gracefulgirl0 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Oh my god the scream that came out of my mouth when I saw my 2011 self inserted into this video. Hi all, its me, ukulele auditioner singing &quot;I&apos;m Yours&quot; in my college dorm room. Did I jump on the ukulele bandwagon? Absolutely I did. This is my karma for forgetting to take down that video. Love your work Nick, thank you for the accurate and loving roast.

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  @TimothyCollins · 2 years ago

  Just to mention... There is another reason to cast people this way. If you have a few thousand nobodies that have likely never accted before and certainly not on a network TV show like Glee then you can grab people that are unaware of the business of Show Business, assign them a manager that is likely more sensitive to you than to them and basically have obedient low paid wage slaves as actors rather than people that might be experienced enough to know what to ask for or demand raises.

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  @peppered-ronis · 2 years ago

  dude I watched this show over lockdown for the first time in like a decade and it was a TRIP. few things:<br>1. if you thought the villain edit Lindsay got in THIS episode was bad, it gets so much worse. the only thing stopping me from saying she was robbed of a win at the end of the show is that nobody deserves to go through filming glee lmao<br>2. doesn&apos;t change the egregious way Alex Newell&apos;s trans character got written on the show but they have actually come out as nonbinary since then and last year became the first NB actor to win a tony!! love that for them<br>3. they do in fact have someone in a wheelchair in season 2, Ali Stroker who also went on to become the first wheelchair user to win a tony. If I had a nickel for every time a queer glee project alumnus who got robbed of a proper win on the show went on to become a groundbreaking tony award winner, I&apos;d have two nickels, which isn&apos;t a lot, but it&apos;s weird it happened twice

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  @Saibellus · 2 years ago

  i was on stage crew for years in highschool bc i loved running around with power tools and prowling the catwalk, right when glee was new and had an absolute death grip on the necks of every would-be theater major in the country. i never watched the show but i feel like i got secondhand groomed from watching the drama kids suddenly getting way too comfortable with ineptly flirting with the teachers.

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  @MysticEden · 2 years ago

  Just FYI Alex is non binary and trans femme. Not sure if they were out then but they have been out for a long time at this point. They actually won a Tony for their performance as Lulu in Shucked last year :D I was able to see them in person and damn, what an amazing voice! ❤

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  @caitlingill · 2 years ago

  Lindsay actually was a guest star on glee as Harmony for one episode and later went on to play Elphalba on Wicked Broadway!

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  @tryinmyhardest · 2 years ago

  I love Alex Newell! They’re the first non-binary actor to win a tony and their song independently owned is fantastic

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  @Psyboar · 2 years ago

  The way they tried to villainise lindsay pierce when her and Alex were the most talented of all

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  @LD_Kelalbe · 2 years ago

  This show made me realize that Ryan Murphy may not actually know what acting is. &nbsp;He seemed insistent that whichever kid won had to genuinely be the character they would portray on the show. &nbsp;Like, not have qualities that suit the character or inspire the character, but that they should actually BE whoever he eventually wrote into the show. &nbsp;It drove me up a wall back when I was watching originally. &nbsp;But it does explain something about several issues I have with Murphy as a writer and show runner...

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  @sarbearr4 · 2 years ago

  “GOD IS DEAD THERE IS ONLY SINGING THE ALTO PART” iconic

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