Did Fox’s “Glee” go too far Thursday night with its “Shooting Star” episode? “Glee’”s creator Ryan Murphy called the episode’s depiction of a
school shooting powerful, but Daily News critic David Hinckley was among those siding with complaints voiced by a Newtown, Conn. victim advocacy group that the episode was airing
too soon after the Sandy Hook massacre. Hinckley said the show “misfired” and felt like “exploitation”: “With the national wound still bleeding through the
bandages, Thursday's episode felt like it was using tragedy for its own advantage.”
At least one critic sided with Murphy, though, as Kristin Dos Santos of E!’s The Scoop wrote that the episode “effectively demonstrated” its point “without
going overboard.” She also tried to include a spoiler alert, but this genie was already out of the bottle.
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