The Glee Project

Joyful and insidery, the competition wholeheartedly embraces the freaks and geeks who made Glee a phenom to begin with.

Last summer Oxygen's The Glee Project proved a better TV show that Fox's "Glee" and it appears that may be more true in the show's second season.

Oxygen's entertaining new spinoff reflects well on the blockbuster franchise and illuminates the pressures faced by talented kids on the brink of showbiz success.

Very few reality shows generate real suspense and sadness at the moment of elimination, but this one does. [20 Jun 2011, p.53]

When all is said and done, none of these back stories is as inspiring as what happens when these people open their mouths and just sing.

Gleeks will engage; hard to imagine who else will.

The Glee Project feels like an exercise in ego for the folks running the show. There's a whole lot of playing to the camera going on amongst the professionals, especially from choreographer Zach Woodlee and Murphy himself.