EPISODE 05 - THE RHODES NOT TAKEN

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SAISON 1 | EPISODE 05 | TITRE : THE RHODES NOT TAKEN | PHOTOS

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SYNOPSIS

● With star Rachel Berry no longer part of the glee club, director Will Schuester worries about the team's forthcoming performance at Invitationals. He discovers that April Rhodes, a member of the club from his own high school days, never actually graduated, and convinces her to return to the glee club. Having failed to achieve her Broadway dreams, April is now an alcoholic, and goes about winning the favor of the existing club members by unconventional means, including getting Kurt (Chris Colfer) drunk and teaching Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) to shoplift. Guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) warns Will that April is corrupting the students. Will asks April to sober up, admitting that she was the reason he joined the glee club and that he had a crush on her in high school. The two of them sing an impromptu duet of Heart's "Alone" at the local bowling alley, and April promises to change.
Club member Finn is concerned for his future, believing his girlfriend Quinn (Dianna Agron) to be pregnant with his child. Emma suggests that instead of aiming to attend college on a football scholarship, Finn should utilize his musical talent. Finn believes the club's only chance of performing well at Nationals rests with Rachel, and attempts to convince her to return to the club. He takes her bowling and tells her that he wants to spend more time with her. This, along with the fact that Rachel is unhappy with the play due to being bullied by the theater director Sandy Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowsky), leads her to relent and quit her role in the school play in favor of glee club. When Rachel discovers that Quinn is pregnant however, she is furious with Finn and quits the club once more. Following a performance of Carrie Underwood's "Last Name", April receives the standing ovation she always dreamed of, and realizes it is time to find a new dream. She leaves the club without a lead singer for their second performance, leading to Rachel stepping in and rejoining the club for an ensemble performance of Queen's "Somebody to Love".

L'EPISODE

● "The Rhodes Not Taken" is the fifth episode of the American television series Glee. It premiered on the Fox network on September 30, 2009 and was written by series co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by John Scott. The episode sees glee club director Will Schuester recruit former star April Rhodes, hoping to improve the club's chances in the wake of Rachel's defection to the school musical. Finn flirts with Rachel in an attempt to convince her to return, and although Rachel is angry when she discovers Finn's girlfriend is pregnant, she ultimately rejoins the club.
Special guest star Kristin Chenoweth plays April Rhodes, and performs on three of the episode's six musical tracks. Studio recordings of four of the songs performed in the episode were released as singles, available for digital download, and two appear on the album Glee: The Music, Volume 1.
The episode was watched by 7.32 million U.S. viewers. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, with Chenoweth's appearance and the performance of Queen cover "Somebody to Love" in particular receiving praise. Raymund Flandez for The Wall Street Journal, Mike Hale of the New York Times and Denise Martin for the Los Angeles Times all deemed "Somebody to Love" the show's best musical number since the staging of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" in the pilot episode.

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