Glee: A Consideration as to Why It Is So Good

Why is Glee, that Fox series on Tuesday nights, so very good? Many reasons could be cited: Its rapier humor. Its crisp dialogue. Its superb acting. Its shockingly good singing. Etc. And all of these contribute, but I think something more basic drives the response to the show. The show enacts the emotions of the songs performed. It takes the anger or joy or what have you and throws them before you, using the songs as hooks into the day-to-day life of the characters. In some ways, it puts on-sc...