Glee, second try.

The second episode of Glee that I watched, "Wheels", seems different from the first episode I watched. It has more tension, slightly less singing and dancing, more like a teen drama. But then I found that there are too many dramatic plots running in parallel. And somehow characters seemed to merely a vehicle to deliver these plots, instead of responding to the situations in a more realistic human way. The conflicts resolved in very blunt way as "heck I don't know what the writer of next episode will do but at least I have to put a closure no matter what". The good thing is that each episode of Glee can to taken as a single serving dose of fun. The down side, though, is that such dramatic plots resolved-within-an-episode makes these characters become less realistic.

Maybe this is just how TV series works, but since I like the premise of the series, I hope it does better than just another comedy. It's just the first season, and based on the fan base, we definitely see more coming. There's still room to get better and better.