Why Are Haters Bullying "Glee"’s Kurt? [View All]

[davidinalameda]

If the first season of Fox's hit show Glee kept Kurt Hummel in the background for some, this season’s most recent episodes have brought him front and center. In the culmination of a story arc on bullying spanning several episodes, the latest Glee rallied the cast in defense of our embattled hero: the girls unleashed their boyfriends on Dave the bully, Mike Chang and Sam roughed Dave up, Sue Sylvester expelled him, while Finn and the rest of the gang lifted Kurt’s spirits with song.

All in all, it was pretty amazing television and Chris Colfer continued to prove himself one of the show’s breakout stars.

So why did the episode seem to start a trickle of haterade from the blogosphere, complete with calls that the show had “jumped the shark” and lost its mojo?

The complaints about Glee have been varied and not all crazy, and nearly all of them implicate the show’s Kurt-heavy episode arc as symptomatic of bigger problems.

http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2010/12/haters-bullying-glee-kurt-hummel#comment-168925