Glee and Pitch Perfect each benefitted from music-loving audiences. While Glee takes place in High School, showing the many different cliques within McKinley High, Pitch Perfect follows the Barden Bellas. Each franchise followed it's respective Glee club and acapella group as they tried to win a Championship.
Both franchises have easy to love characters and comedic moments while also knowing how to use the music in the story well. However, which one would the public say is better? After all, there are things that each series does better than the other.
10 Glee: Performances
This isn't to say that the Barden Bellas put on a bad show; they certainly don't. It's just that the New Directions put on so many more performances. By the time they perform at Sectionals, Regionals, or Nationals, the New Directions understand their identity as a group, and any large-scale props are usually left behind.
This is not the case in Pitch Perfect 2, where so much of the film is spent with the Bellas trying to find their sound and identity as a group after going too far over the edge. Glee also has its characters belt out bigger songs, and they perform a much wider variety of music.
9 Pitch Perfect: Mash-ups
Glee uses some mash-ups during its run, but this is an area that Pitch Perfect shines in. Mash-ups are part of Beca's talent, and it is her job to mix several songs for the massive Barden Bellas performances. At the end of Pitch Perfect, the Barden Bellas perform a mash-up of several different songs in an arrangement that Beca likely pieced together herself.
Emily describes that Beca singlehandedly re-invented the Bellas' sound. Fusing different songs to create a bigger sound that lets numerous talents be shown was an exciting element to the Pitch Perfect trilogy.
8 Glee: Romantic Relationships
Pitch Perfect does have a few romances, most notably between Jesse and Beca and Fat Amy and Bumper. However, neither of those relationships has that much room to grow in the span of two films. However, Glee did have the space to develop and grow several core romances.
Kurt and Blaine, Rachel and Finn, and Santana and Brittany are just three crucial romances that played major parts throughout Glee. The show even dabbled with relationships that were destined to fail, such as Will's marriage to Terri. Nearly everyone in the New Directions dated each other, and many of them came out of those romances as friends.
7 Pitch Perfect: Riff-offs
Glee often showed rival glee clubs performing against each other. However, they never participated in a riff-off. Pitch Perfect showed at least one riff-off in each film. While the Bellas lost each one, it was still a solid way of seeing every group's talent and skill.
In Pitch Perfect, it was a way to test the Bellas against the Treblemakers and other Barden acapella groups. Pitch Perfect 2 uses a riff-off to emphasize the rivalry between the Bellas and Das Sound Machine. During Pitch Perfect 3, the Bellas call out the other groups, all of whom use instruments, in a riff-off, and it is the first time the Bellas hear what their competition sounds like.
6 Glee: Character Growth
Pitch Perfect does have character growth, especially through its central character, Beca Mitchell. However, the rest of the Bellas do not have the same development Beca receives from the trilogy. But, this is not an aspect Glee suffers from. Even though Glee has so many main characters, so many episodes allow there to be room for all of them to grow and change.
Nearly every central character gets a chance to shine at least once, and those episodes give a better insight into those characters' lives. A television show naturally has more time than films to dive deep into character development and create an arc that shows how the character and their relationships change.
5 Pitch Perfect: Sisterhood
Glee did show many essential friendships, but the Pitch Perfect trilogy understands sisterhood better. While the Bellas fight, especially at first, they eventually learn to love, trust, and care for each other. By Pitch Perfect 2, any animosity between the Bellas is gone, and they have evolved into close friends.
Chloe even takes the Bellas to Aubrey's boot camp to get back in sync and deal with their issues head-on. The sequel's conclusion marks how significant the Barden Bellas has been to all of its past members when many previous Bellas get on stage with the current group to perform at the World Acapella Championships.
4 Glee: School
Even though plenty of Glee takes place in the choir room for club meetings or the auditorium, there are still many integral moments within McKinley High's hallways and classrooms. Glee created an environment and tone for the school and an understanding of the student class.
Jocks give out slushie facials to New Directions and other geeks. The Cheerios are one of the most accomplished teams in school. The football team could be better. Nerds are thrown in dumpsters. While these are not the most inspiring or positive realities, they are continually shown, allowing viewers to recognize what type of environment this was.
While schoolwork is not a massive part of the series either, there are occasional storylines about classes and grades. Pitch Perfect didn't build Barden University the same way. There may be one reference to Beca skipping class during the first film. Chloe explains she had been purposefully failing to stay a Bella, but otherwise, education is entirely lacking.
3 Pitch Perfect: Dreams Vs. Reality
Having a dream is one thing: to achieve it is another. In both series, most notably seen through Beca Mitchell and Rachel Berry, the main characters have reached their dream profession. In Pitch Perfect 3, Beca is a music producer. But, it isn't what Beca hoped it would be. To save her artistic integrity, Beca quits her job. It may not be the most logical choice as she has no fallback plan or a second job to hold onto. However, Beca owns her choice. Luckily, her time with the Bellas, performing for the Troops, ends in Beca getting signed to work with DJ Khaled.
Rachel Berry, on the other hand, is a far more confusing case. It was clear that Rachel's true dream had been to perform on Broadway. So, when Rachel gets her dream and then gives it up, it is a disturbing turn of events. After speaking to an agent and hearing that Rachel would be stuck in this one role for years longer than she was hoping, Rachel panics and searches for an immediate way out, seemingly bored with her dream job.
2 Glee: Keeping New Directions Alive
Pitch Perfect 2 shows that the Bellas care so much about their acapella group that they enter the World Championship just to save it. However, this is the only time the existence of their acapella group is threatened. Glee started threatening the existence of the New Directions from the moment the series began.
Sue Sylvester had it out for the Glee club from the start, so the New Directions, as well as the audience, were always aware that their group could be forced to end at any moment. Still, even after the New Directions lost Regionals in season five, Rachel revived the group, and its previous members came back to help recreate the New Directions. No matter what season, the New Directions were always devoted to trying to keep their Glee club alive.
1 Pitch Perfect: Acapella
Glee does occasionally use acapella, mostly through the New Directions rival group, the Warblers. Still, most of the Glee performances are done with instruments. Pitch Perfect, on the other hand, almost only uses acapella.
Except for the Bellas' rivals in Pitch Perfect 3, every notable opposition against the Bellas is another a capella group. It is the music technique mostly shown through the Pitch Perfect trilogy.
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