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Glee fan? You’ll love this podcast.

A “showmance” is typically defined as a relationship between two members of a cast of a television series, play or film. Now if you were a “gleek” like me you know there were lots of showmances formed on Glee.

Showmance is a podcast for Glee fans brought to us by two members of the cast. Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz met back in 2008 on the set of Glee and have been best friends since. Ushkowitz played Tina Cohen-Chang and McHale played Artie Abrams. The two characters were a couple for most of the whole first season.

This podcast is brought to us by the LadyGang Network. Every Friday a new episode of this podcast is uploaded to podcastone.com, Apple Podcast and Spotify.


Each week Ushkowitz and McHale recap an episode of Glee, starting from season one and working their way to the series finale. For those who don’t know, Glee was a musical comedy drama that ran from 2009 to 2015 on Fox. If you were a fan of the show like me this is definitely the podcast for you.

There are only two episodes out so far. The first episode released was the pilot with special guest Lea Michele who played Rachel Berry. In this episode Ushkowitz, McHale and Michele shared behind-thescenes tea and secrets. I found it very interesting to hear their outtake on the very first episode because I was 11 when the show premiered.

This show was pretty relatable for the most part because it tackled storylines of bullying, sexuality issues etc. At one point in the episode they talk about how the show was really ahead of its time. Michele was talking at one point about how she got emotional watching certain scenes now where she didn’t get emotional at 10 years ago.

For example, and spoiler alert if you haven’t seen the show, in the first episode there is a scene where the character Puck the high school bad boy locks Artie, a boy in a wheelchair in a Porta Potty. Finn the quarterback hears Artie banging on the door and helps him out.

Michele, Ushkowitz and McHale talked about how sweet the character of Finn really was. Unfortunately, the actor who played Finn (Cory Monteith) passed away in July of 2013. So, in a way they were able to remember him.

In the second episode of Showmance, Ushkowitz and McHale bring on the president of Ryan Murphy’s production team Alexis Martin Woodall. In this episode they talk about the challenges they faced while filming because they had a month of filming for the pilot and it took them three weeks to learn choreography.

For McHale that was a challenge because he had to learn how to use a wheelchair and make it look like he was actually paralyzed. They talked about what the process was and how everything worked.

For most of the actors on the show, Glee was their first on-camera role. Ushkowitz came from a Broadway background and McHale was a member of the boy band NLT. The craze audiences experienced for the show around that time was a craze they were also experiencing for a first time. I

If you were a fan of the show, I suggest checking this podcast out. They share all the insights and have some fun stories to tell. Plus, it is kind of fun just to hear from an actor’s point of view what their experience was like because we only get to see it on the T.V. It is so easy to listen to; I tend to listen while I’m riding the bus and it makes it seem like I am there in the conversation.

Glee for me was an escape from reality, it was a show I felt like I could relate to. As a theatre kid it was very easy for me to feel on the outside and this show made it feel a lot easier. So, having Showmance to listen to makes me go back and look back on the series.

I think it is fun to go back now and rewatch each episode after listening to the podcast because it gives me a different perspective on the episode. I was also 11 at the time so going back and listening/ watching I pick up more things now than I did then.

Of course if you do decide to take a listen there is a hotline you can call to ask questions or simply as questions on their Instagram @showmancepodcast. This podcast is one of my favourites and it is definitely worth the listen.