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"It&amp;#039;s a weird thing to be celebrating what makes Glee great in its 100th episode while it goes through such massive change. In the last instalment, it was revealed that the glee club will be disbanded after failing to win Nationals, and so this week all our old friends have returned to pay their respects. The idea is that the glee club have reunited not quite to have a good time, but to just be thankful for all the great experiences they had - and that&amp;#039;s kind of what the viewers are encouraged to feel too as we mark this impressive milestone relatively soon after losing Cory Monteith and learning that Glee is on its way out.  To be fair, it&amp;#039;s easy not to get too hung up on Glee&amp;#039;s recent sad developments, in real life and in terms of storyline, when the mere sight of Rachel, Mercedes, Santana, Kurt, Puck, Quinn, Brittany and Mike Chang back in those choir room chairs is enough to let off little tingles.  To mark the glee club&amp;#039;s final week, Will instructs the kids to put a new twist on their favourite songs from their time in New Directions. He also brings back April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth), who&amp;#039;s welcomed fondly by the glee elders (&amp;quot;She once told me how to shoplift meat in my vagina,&amp;quot; Tina casually recalls to a traumatised Marley). Chenoweth hasn&amp;#039;t lost her enthusiasm for the part, clearly loving that April is the same fantastic troublemaking train wreck. She leads the kids in a rendition of Pink&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Raise Your Glass&amp;#039; that&amp;#039;s sure to blow away the blues, the character&amp;#039;s sloppy southern drawl and complete lack of reservations complementing the party anthem perfectly and giving the performance an extra element of &amp;#039;whoo&amp;#039;.  The biggest song of the episode though is a reprise of &amp;#039;Defying Gravity&amp;#039; from Wicked, performed by Rachel and Mercedes as they call on the glee club to decide once and for all who is the bigger star.  It&amp;#039;s a great callback to a fondly remembered moment in Glee history, with the camera cutting between the ladies and Rachel&amp;#039;s original sing-off opponent Kurt as they all belt out the song, just like first time round. The only difference is that the production is upscaled slightly with strong spotlights and pretty fairy lights to reflect how they&amp;#039;ve gone up in the world. There&amp;#039;s also redemption for Kurt as he gets a second chance to hit the note he botched back in the day. Before the vote is announced, Santana takes one more pot shot at her roommate-turned-rival Rachel, describing her as &amp;quot;the most horrible human being on the planet&amp;quot; for trampling over her so-called friends, and proceeding to blow her precious memories apart as she reveals that she and Quinn rigged the vote so that Rachel could become prom queen. Rachel storms out of the choir room and Mercedes eventually finds her crying in the bathroom. They remember all the times they were made to feel horrible by Santana, Quinn and everybody else during high school, and how all that torment continues to hang over them even now they&amp;#039;re bigshots. Realising that they were always meant to be allies due to their time spent on the outskirts, Rachel and Mercedes hug it out and vow that their rivalry must always be professional, never personal.  The duo return to the glee club vote and apologise for forcing them to choose between them, only for Will to reveal that the vote was a tie - a very convenient and predictable resolution, but one that comes from a good place. Another reunion that ends on a happy note is that between Puck, who&amp;#039;s now in the Air Force, and Quinn. Still every inch the McKinley &amp;#039;It Girl&amp;#039;, she has the ability to make him feel like a nervous, lovesick schoolboy again.  But there&amp;#039;s a problem - Quinn has invited her new boyfriend Biff McIntosh, played by guest star Chace Crawford, down with her. Biff is suave, but snooty on the sly, not an all-out douche but entitled and with a subtle animosity behind a lot of the things he says. And he doesn&amp;#039;t even bother to stop texting when Quinn, Santana and Brittany perform a sexy, Latina twist on Britney&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Toxic&amp;#039;, complete with some &amp;#039;Cell Block Tango&amp;#039;-esque choreography that&amp;#039;s all grinding on chairs in cubicles lit like a boudoir. What kind of mad man is he?! It soon becomes clear that Quinn is not being honest with Biff about her past, inspiring Puck to pick up his guitar and serenade her with &amp;#039;Keep Holding On&amp;#039;. Tears flow as Quinn remembers how the song was first performed by the glee club to show their support for her during a troubling time, and for us viewers, an already emotional performance is heightened as we remember how on that occasion Cory Monteith took the lead. It rivals &amp;#039;Defying Gravity&amp;#039; for the episode&amp;#039;s most impressive vocal performance, only undone by the fact it wraps up pretty quickly.  Gaining courage from the song, Quinn decides to embrace who she is and comes clean to Biff. She gets called a &amp;quot;dirty little slutbag&amp;quot; for her troubles, resulting in Biff being beaten and dumped in the trash by Puck. Meanwhile, Santana is also coming to the aid of an ex, as she tries to remind Brittany that there&amp;#039;s more to life than being a maths genius and rekindle her love of dancing through a very energetic and impressive dance performance to &amp;#039;Valerie&amp;#039;, Mike and Jake providing backup. The stories wrap up concurrently, with Puck and Brittany declaring their love for Quinn and Santana, and leaving them each to ponder reigniting the most meaningful romances they&amp;#039;ve ever had.  Before long, Quinn&amp;#039;s chasing Puck down the corridor, slowly creeping into frame and embracing him for a massive kiss in what is proper rom-com fare. It&amp;#039;s soppy perfection. The two of them getting back together is sudden, perhaps unconvincingly so, but crowd-pleasing. By contrast, Brittana&amp;#039;s potential reconciliation is left on a cliffhanger, presumably (hopefully) to be explored in greater detail in a later episode.  After a last-ditch attempt to save the glee club fails, April convinces Holly Holliday (Gwyneth Paltrow) to literally slide back into the glee club to try and turn everyone&amp;#039;s frowns upside down. Holly - who&amp;#039;s even more of a commitment-phobe than before and has taken to barging into classrooms unannounced - urges them all to stop getting bogged down in the past and embrace the new, a point that leads her nicely into an original production of Pharrell&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Happy&amp;#039;, just because it&amp;#039;s a song Glee probably should have covered by now. Perhaps controversially, we&amp;#039;re not huge fans of Holly&amp;#039;s appearance. We know she&amp;#039;s a very popular character, but the other cameos are weaved nicely into the story, while hers is a bit shameless. It takes you out of the moment, and you can practically hear Glee screaming &amp;quot;Look, we got Gwyneth back!&amp;quot; in our faces. In a surprising and bold move, especially for a milestone episode, &amp;#039;100&amp;#039; ends on an understated note, with Will gathering all the kids in the auditorium, the new home of Finn&amp;#039;s plaque, not to give one more cheery performance or pep talk, but just to mourn with him.  &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t come here to cheer you up, just to thank you for going on this ride with me,&amp;quot; he says, before breaking down. Watching silently from the rafters above, April and Holly, moved by the occasion, vow to save the glee club - once they&amp;#039;ve finished their wine, of course. &amp;#039;100&amp;#039; is exactly the kind of meaningful episode a momentous occasion like this deserves - nostalgic, big and poignant where needed. It has the feel of a series finale, an episode of closure. For a lot of the cast, especially Quinn and Puck, this is clearly a goodbye, a nice wrap-up. With so many familiar faces around, it feels like old school Glee, classic Glee, and now that we&amp;#039;ve seen them all one more time, we feel ready to go with the show as it moves on to New York and takes a new direction (no pun intended). What are your thoughts on the 100th episode of Glee? Leave your comments below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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