If you want to be a social pariah at William McKinley High, the quickest route is still to join the show choir, AKA the Glee Club. You can be confident of a full dance card of being throw into dumpsters and/or getting a daily face-full of slushie.
But the kids on the club persevere, because show choir remains one of the few places where they can be themselves, even if sometimes their fellow club members would prefer they were a little bit different to who they actually are. It's something that brings them a sense of belonging, even as it also makes them social outcasts.
Glee only started about 10 years ago, but structurally it feels like a show from an earlier era than that, before binge-watching DVDs (and now, Netflix) became common. The writing ping pongs back and forth on character attributes and their motivations, manipulating them to serve the needs of the current episode and then discarding those elements in the next. It makes the show a better 'week by week' watch than it is to watch in a concentrated block.
At the end of the day, though, the main reason to watch Glee is the song and dance numbers, on that front, the show continues (with occasional missteps like the awkward Rocky Horror episode) to deliver.
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