Kate Hudson rescues “Glee”

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:30:00 +0000

I don’t know exactly how many breakups and makeups with a TV show it takes before one’s relationship with it flips from a casual dating experiment or a friends with benefits scenario into one of those full-blown tortured, dysfunctional, on-again, off-again pairings everyone knows would be best left permanently “off.” I just know “Glee” and I have had the requisite number.

So when Kate Hudson appeared in the first episode of “Glee’s” fourth season — appearing in the very first shot of that first episode, in fact — I almost turned it off. In the three months since I’d last experienced “Glee’s” casual cruelty, plot incoherence and self-satisfied yet perfunctory treatment of serious issues, my frustrations had mellowed. But, oh dear God, here was another famous person. Well, I apologize to Kate Hudson for dismissing her so quickly. She can’t really sing, but is the best thing to happen to “Glee” since at least Gwyneth Paltrow. (That's not an insult.)

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Kate Hudson rescues “Glee”