The scrappy underdog from Alexander Payne's Election has been misunderstood and reappraised for 25 years. That's a hell of a character.
This May, Glee turns 15. For better or worse—often both, within the same episode—the series is singular. It ushered in a wave of musical TV shows, and with it a new era of merchandising. Its young cast might not have become Euphoria famous, but they were household names for a generation and a constant presence in the pages of tabloids. There’s a case to be made that Glee is the ultimate Obama era show, running from 2009 to 2015 and championing inclusion and difference.
In the 25 years since Election premiered—even over the years that Glee was airing—our culture was reappraising the way it treats ambitious women, women for whom Tracy had become something of an avatar. In a 2001 review of Legally Blonde, critic Michael Shilling, complimenting Witherspoon’s performance, compared Tracy to Lolita narrator Humbert Humbert; in 2019, New York Times critic A.O. Scott likened Mr. M to the same character.
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