| American Idol | Recap: Season 5, Episode 28 | | | Seacrest starts the show by asking "Can anyone match up to Freddie Mercury" as if it's NOT a rhetorical question. Earth to Seacrest: the answer is NO! This has to be the most terrible theme night in the history of the show. What's up next, Rush?
Bucky has a new haircut and up first to show it off. Regular readers may recall that I have Bucky an A- for his performance last week - I do... |
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| American Idol | | | | When Mandisa's name was announced as the next Idol-hopeful to be sent home, an awkward silence and series of reactions followed. The crowd, contestants, and judges were all visibly stunned - not by the fact that Mandisa was getting the boot, but instead by something called out by someone in the crowd.
Rumor has it that a group of teens called erupted in racial slurs directed at Mandisa... |
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| American Idol | Recap: Season 5, Episode 6 | | | Let the conspiracy theories begin! Kevin was voted off tonight. Or was he? According to the folks at DialIdol, it was Elliott's turn to go home. Did the Idol producers intervene and get rid of Kevin to neutralize the threat poised by the subversive crew at Vote For The Worst? Or, did America finally tire of the joke and vote one of the worst singers out. Only Ryan Seacrest's hairdresser knows for ... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 9, Episode 4 | | | Tonight on the Amazing Race, the lovely mother-daughter duo of Wanda (or as Phil says, "Wander") and Desiree were eliminated. The team got increasingly testy with each other as they struggled with navigating themselves through Germany and although I really liked them, I'm almost glad they were Philiminated because I'd hate to see them turn on each other any more.
Tonight's leg started up ... |
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| American Idol | Recap: Season 5, Episode 5 | | | They weren't born in the 50s (a shiny new quarter to anyone that gets the reference), but tonight the Idols will tackle the songs of that music-defining decade, with a little help from Barry Manilow.
First up, it's Mandisa in what is seriously the most flattering dress of all time. She looks at least 60 pounds lighter. Wow. Anyway, the daring diva sings "I Don't Hurt Anymore" and is, in a... |
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| American Idol | Recap: Season 5, Episode 4 | | | Tonight's American Idol results show/fillerama featured a supremely boring performance by Stevie Wonder. While he was singing, I kept daydreaming about how Randy, Paula & Simon would critique him if he was a contestant. My guess is that it wouldn't be pretty.
On to the results: Ace is in the bottom three. Kevin is safe (hey, way to go Vote for the Worst. Joining Ace on center stage are Me... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 9, Episode 2 | | | Tonight, the Amazing Race stayed in Brazil as Lisa & Joni were Philiminated. The screechy sisters were done in by their inability to drive an old VW Bug. After listening to them bitch about the driving, it occured to me that we've never seen teams drive in really bad conditions. I can remember teams having to deal with fog and crappy cars, but they've never had to drive through snow. Once someone ... |
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| American Idol | Recap: Season 5, Episode 4 | | | Results show/filler hour. Confession time: I only half-watched this. Impressions & results:
"Love The One You're With" medley featuring the women. Paris is going from cute and talented to annoying.Carrie Underwood looks great but "Jesus Takes The Wheel" is a horrible song. Bo-RING. Hey Carrie, in the future the crowds won't be booing, they'll be shouting for Mr. Bice.The girls: No surpris... |
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| American Idol | Recap: Season 6, Episode 3 | | | Last night, the women sucked. Tonight, will the men be any better?
Taylor starts the show with "Easy Like A Sunday Morning". Longtime Idol fans, do you remember when Season 1's Jim sang this? It's not a train wreck like that, but it's too mellow and boring. Taylor is supposed to be this crazy, gray-haired guy. Crazy, gray-haired guys shouldn't be singing Lionel Ritchie. That said, it was... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 9, Episode 1 | | | The beloved Amazing Race is back! Phil gets ready to send the 11 teams of two off on their race around the world. Is it just me, or did Phil really emphasize the word "world"? In other words, "please watch, this won't be anything like the crappy Family Edition!"
The race starts outside Denver at the famed Red Rocks amphitheatre. I don't see U2 anywhere, but you never know where that Bono ... |
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| American Idol | Recap: Season 6, Episode 2 | | | Spooky Stevie and Boyish Becky are gone, leaving 10 mostly mediocre women to compete for the final 6 spots. Seriously, this gaggle of girls is so middling that I'm wondering why I even bothered to tune in. Other than Paris and Lisa, this season's girls would have a hard time getting jobs as lounge singers.
Hey, maybe it'll be loudmouthed Brenna's last performance - and maybe she'll cr... |
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| American Idol | Recap: Season 6, Episode 1 | | | Mandissa kicks off the show by rocking out to Heart's "Never." Wow! She's really good. All of the judges are impressed, Paula much more than that others. I'm pretty impressed, too.
Unfortunately for Kellie, she has to follow Mandissa. She's doing a Martina McBride song, which she explains is supposed to be a love song, but she's singing it for her incarcerated father. Ummmm... ok t... |
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| Project Runway | Recap: Season 2, Episode 3 | | | Tonight's episode resulted in the sad auf wiedersehening of Daniel Franco. Daniel was the first eliminated contestant last year, but came back to try again this season. While Daniel has talent, I think he's too much of a perfectionist to excel in the tight time constraints of Project Runway. But, to his everlasting credit, Daniel refused to sell out his team. He took full blame for the failure of ... |
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| Project Runway | Recap: Season 2, Episode 2 | | | The second season of Project Runway continues to be just as good as the first. Tonight featured a very clever product tie-in: designers had to create an outfit for Mattel's My Scene Barbie. The winning designer not only moved on in the competition, but Mattel would also make a limited edition doll wearing their outfit. How cool is that?
I love so many things about this show, but one of th... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 8, Episode 11 | | | No one's gonna beat the Linz family! And I, for one, thank God. Thank you God for abandoning the Weaver family in their hour of need. And thank you, Amazing Race producers, for editing out any footage you may have had of the Weaver family trying to do the final geography puzzle. Since the family thought that Lake Pontchartrain was one of the Great Lakes, I can't imagine how long it actually took t... |
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| Project Runway | Recap: Season 2, Episode 1 | | | The Project Runway premiere was a wonderful two hours of television. Not only did I get to catch up with past favorites like Jay, Kara Saun & Austin Scarlet, I also found some new favorites. And new people to hate.
Speaking of hate, Wendy Pepper did make a guest appearance at the beginning of the show, helping the producers pick out the 16 semi-finalists. But, thankfully, that's the only... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 8, Episode 10 | | | The Godlewski sisters were eliminated in tonight's penultimate episode of the Amazing Race's family edition. And while I wish it were the Weavers who were off my TV, I can't say that I'll miss the shrieking sisters too much.
While I think the Family Edition pales in comparision to original recipe TAR, I didn't think it was that awful until tonight. Tonight I was bored. I never thought TA... |
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| Survivor | Recap: Season 11, Episode 12 | | | After the tribe returns from what was possibly the most intense tribal council yet, Danni is surprised that people are all acting like nothing out of the ordinary happened. The alliances have to start breaking up eventually, she reasons. And she has a lot to be worried about, as she seems to be next up on the chopping block.
The tribe heads to a food auction where each tribe member rece... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 8, Episode 9 | | | Let's get it out of the way. The Weavers suck. Tonight's Weaver Moment of Hypocrisy came early as Rebecca Weaver (note, this whole time I thought she was Rachel) called the Godlewski sisters "bottle blondes". Okay, there Skunky, I don't think the Lord made you with white blond streaks in your black hair. Hate them.
Speaking of hate, or at least dislike, after tonight Michelle Godlewski is... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 8, Episode 8 | | | Tonight I'm going to divide my recap in facts and opinions.
Facts
Teams traveled throughout Utah in this leg, stopping in Monument Valley, Park Valley, Salt Lake City and visiting Bart, a giant bearThe Linz family finally won a leg, followed by the Bransens & GodlewskisThe Weaver family finished last, but were not eliminated because this was the (probably last) non-elimination le... |
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| Survivor | Recap: Season 11, Episode 10 | | | Jamie was voted off Survivor Guatemala tonight and guess who the mastermind was. Rafe! It occurs to me that Rafe is one of the most underestimated Survivors ever. He's won two individual immunities and now he's engineered one of the first really surprising boots of the season. Because he's a little effeminate, people discount the fact that he's quite athletic, smart and has the trust of everyone o... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 8, Episode 7 | | | The redemption arc of the Paolo family came to a predictable conclusion tonight as the lovable bickerers were eliminated in Lake Powell, Arizona. The family made the fatal error of not asking for directions and wandering aimlessly and fell to last place behind the Bransens, who finished last in the previous (non-elimination) leg in tonight's two-part episode.
DJ Paolo went out on a low no... |
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| Survivor | Recap: Season 11, Episode 8 | | | Yaxha leaves last week's tribal council and heads over to Nakum for merger. Along the way, Bobby Jon tells us that he can't be around Stephanie for more than a few minutes without wanting to vomit, and that he can't be around Jamie for more than a few minutes without wanting to knock him out. Heh - last time Jaime and Bobby Jon got into it, there was a shouting match. Maybe we'll get treated to... |
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| The Amazing Race | Recap: Season 8, Episode 6 | | | Tonight's episode reminds me of why I both love and hate this show. I hate that the Gaghans, who I've really come to like, were eliminated in Costa Rica. I hated watching poor Carissa Gaghan tear up. But, on the other hand, I loved that you could tell Phil just wanted to hug her.
Tonight, the Gaghans were "Lenaed". For those of you new to the show, Lena & Kristy were a pair of sisters fr... |
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