'Glee' recap: Honoring love and Whitney Houston
22.05.12
Riley's gorgeous, lush take on Houston's trademark ballad -- a song we've been hearing a lot of these past few days -- was definitely an episode highlight. (She's broken up with Shane, yet still not ready to get together with Sam. And how great did she look backlit, in that ruched red dress?) But that wasn't the only thing that made us sit up and take notice.
Other notable developments in "Glee's" "Heart" episode:
Rachel's dads: At last we meet Rachel's two dads, Hiram and Leroy, played by Jeff Goldblum (weird cadence and all) and Brian Stokes Mitchell. The dads bicker (for example, about a dream one of them had in which he went ice fishing with "Hollywood heartthrob Tony Danza") and claim to throw their full support, as well as a stack of wedding magazines, behind Rachel and Finn's engagement. They invite the Hudson-Hummels over for dinner (or, dinner theater, as they prefer to think of it) and roll out not just the proverbial red carpet, but also the metaphorical bedroom quilt for Finn. If the kids are going to be married, they say, they might as well start shacking up now. Commence the "teenage lovemaking." Apparently, Rachel's dads are trying to use a little reverse-psychology to get the kids to reconsider their marital plans -- a bit of deceptive behavior that goes against the core tenets of the Barry family: "honesty, respect, dance." Finn's family is also in on the plan; his mom has packed his toothbrush. But after a brief dispute over the use of the bathroom (marriage in a nutshell, really), Finn and Rachel make up and resolve to marry even sooner -- in May, they announce to a startled Hiram and Leroy. Backfire!
Source: Los Angeles Times