MIKE’S MIC
There are few things I enjoy more than watching Michael Messineo, a.k.a. Mike’s Mic on YouTube, slowly lose it. Mike is essentially a walking pop culture encyclopedia whose film and TV commentary never fails to make me snort with delight, but his more recent reviews have reached unparalleled, near-transcendent levels of unhingedness—the crown jewel being a 3-part, 6-hour long series unpacking the entirety of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS. This week, however, Mike began a new endeavor: a recap of all 6 tumultuous seasons of GLEE. His methods involve a whiteboard on which he maps out characters and plot beats like a detective tracking a serial killer, a point system for rewarding or penalizing characters based on behavior, and a 5 hour and 53 minute-long Spotify playlist entitled “The Mike’s Mic Glee Experience.” Not to mention, a deep, burning hatred toward the “menace” that is William Schuester. Go. Watch. Now.
—Alicia Devereaux, Development Assistant
