Gleeks

Fans of the Fox show “Glee.”

Relishing the return of Glee, a Fox show about a high school glee club, Ms Twixt at Examiner.com wrote:

The soundtrack is phenomenal, and Gen X and Boomer parents will certainly appreciate the music – when Glee’s premiere ran in May, songs from the show were the number one download on iTunes and the pilot was the most viewed video on Hulu.com. The series has even inspired a new term for its fans: “Gleeks.”

The Washington Post’s Hank Stuever cast a more skeptical eye:

“Glee” is another paradox of life within Rupert Murdoch’s Fox empire, which can, on its news network, stoke the paranoia of the right wing, and then, in prime time, offer up “Glee,” as some sort of weird antidote. “Glee” is rife with digs at McMansion lifestyles, God-squadders, the “abstinence-only” movement and uptight homophobia. It can be viewed (and already is, by fans whom the network has christened “gleeks”) as a gay victory, if not in content then certainly in sensibility.