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How Glee can get it’s ratings back

Back in 2009 when they started Glee looked like a show with a lot of promise as there was nothing else like it on TV. It started off as telling the story of high school students who didn’t think they ft into their social class system at school.  With a cast who could sing it looked like it would be going on for many seasons. The only thing that I really had a problem with in season one was the fact that that one of the characters on the show was pregnant. With this I feel they were trying to make it like a real high school set up, and things like that do happen in high schools.   I also see that they tried to have each character have their own story on the show, back then each one had a different story to tell.  This was a show were athletes and popular kids who didn’t think it was “cool” to join the show choir did.

When you look at it now the show has gone so far from where it started, and the ratings of the show are slipping. Fans like me and others are worried about what will happen to some of the most memorable characters on the show, when they graduate at the end of this season.  This season has been more about individual character’s development, and not the group as a whole. One f the big things I feel that   they have done wrong this season is the fact that two of the characters are going to get married. I do see both sides of this as I myself am a fan of the coupled, but I feel that they are way too young to be thinking about getting married. Fans feel as though Glee as lost its edge and they do have suggestions as to how they can get it back. I feel as though they will have to do something as the show has gotten  picked up for yet another season.

Two of the writers on the show Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have already started another successful show. “American Horror Story” which has nothing to do with Glee, but people watched that as well. The fans like me and others   will keep on watching the show due to the fact they want to see where it goes. I feel as though even though they have no explored the plot development as a group, people keep coming back every week due to the characters.  It was a hugely successful show, and to me it still it but the show has gone so far from what it used to be. People that may used have watched the show every week no longer are, this could most likely be due tot eh fact that  the story lines are now so far fetched.