This week’s Glee episode, “The Break Up,” has been highly anticipated – or dreaded. Look, everyone knows the deal here. This has been coming for a while. Finchel. Klaine. Brittana. Wemma. Four power couples enter. Who’ll make it out alive? Read our full Glee recap below:
Somewhat unexpectedly, the episode opens on Jake Puckerman and Marley bonding in the lunch room over how poor they both are. Marley isn’t quick enough to hide her ‘free lunch’ tokens as New Puck joins her, but he commiserates and reveals that his mom lost her ‘solid middle class’ job in the recession and now works as a waitress. He also makes sure to point out that his mom is black, just in case we thought Glee’s attention to detail was so terrible that we were meant to believe New Puck and Old Puck were of the same ethnic origin. Poor New Puck feels super guilty about how much she struggles to pay for his dance lessons. Wait, what? Dance lessons? Marley asks the same question, but Jake ain’t spilling more than that. Is he in fact New Mike Chang?
Neglected Brittany and Neglected Blaine watch the budding romance wistfully from another table, reminiscing about times gone by, when hope was high and life worth living. They dreamed that love would never die… “We’re still young. Shouldn’t we still be experiencing those things?” asks Brittany, though neither she or Blaine has an answer to that question.
In the Bushwick apartment, it appears to be the morning directly following the end of last week’s episode, as Rachel rises at midday and tells Kurt that she and Finn had lain awake half the night, not talking. Finn soon joins the pair in the kitchen area, and after greeting his step-brother, Kurt excuses himself and takes his croque-madame on a date to the park to watch drug deals. Somewhere, 600 miles away, Blaine Anderson has a yearning to become that croque-madame, watching the dealers touting their daily wares while at Kurt’s side. He’d probably put up with being eaten afterwards. He’d probably be grateful for the attention. Anyway, Rachel offers to make Finn breakfast, pretending everything’s fine, but after a few moments cannot retain her composure and demands to know what’s going on. Finn admits that he’s no longer in the army – he was ‘semi-honorably discharged’ after just 16 days, due to accidentally shooting himself in the thigh. Since then, he’s been backpacking around Georgia, too ashamed to face or call anyone – he couldn’t bear the idea of Rachel seeing him as a useless Lima loser again. Rachel seems frustrated by this but puts it all aside, saying that it was no big deal, what matters is that he’s here now, with her, and together they can work to find him a new purpose. She reminds him that before he planned to go to the army, he’d applied to the Actors Studio, and that if he’s still interested, they can look for a new acting school for him. Rachel suggests that Finn come along to all her NYADA classes that week, and if he likes it he can move into the Bushwick apartment and the two of them will spend all year working on his NYADA application. Finn looks dumbstruck and grateful as Rachel tells him that though she loves New York, something had always been missing, and that she will not let Finn leave her again.
Santana has returned to Glee, to our hearts, and to Lima, to do laundry with Brittany. Apparently she’s made a pact to herself to only do laundry at home, so no matter how busy things get, she’ll have an excuse to come back home and spend time with Brittany. After a beautifully phrased rant from Santana about the unrealistic circumstances of Kurt’s employment at Vogue, Brittany tells Santana that she could go to NYC too, should she want to, but Santana’s just annoyed on principle – she likes being in college and loves being a cheerleader. When Britt becomes visibly exhausted, Santana asks what’s wrong and Brittany tells her that she’d been up late reading Left Behind (a post-apocalyptic sci-fi extreme Christian propaganda series) for the new after-school club she’s joined with Kitty, Trouty Mouth, Teen Jesus, and Dottie Kazatori. “Who’s Dottie Kazatori?” asks everyone. “She’s Tina’s assistant.” Oh, her. “Everyone graduated and things got weird.” Understatement, Britt.
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