Do You Think You Can Fit on One Stool?
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Posted March 11th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Do You Think You Can Fit on One Stool?
by Mordant Monkey
We’ll have our Top 12 revealed tonight, and it ought to be interesting. I predict at least one surprise. I’m expecting Paige and Lacey to leave us, but it could be Katie, while for the boys, I’m thinking Aaron and Tim, but possibly Andrew. Who knows? Only Ryan, evidently.
Clips of the contestants from the past week, and we’re off! Randy and Ellen match in black and white, Kara is in ice blue, and Simon is understated in a ...
Tonight Wasn’t Exactly a Good Night
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Posted March 5th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Tonight Wasn’t Exactly a Good Night
by Mordant Monkey
After overly dramatic scenes of the past two nights and the Voice of Simon warning us of impending doom, we hear: “Drama. Is about to unfold on this stage. Ready?” Ryan asks. Drama, yes. Danny Gokey, no. No thank you.
Ryan looks like a three-year-old dressed him, and Kara has way too many silver clothes on. Simon thinks he was wrong about his initial compliments to certain contestants—he said when he played parts of the show ...
After the Nation-Wide Vote, Simon Wins
by Mordant Monkey
[caption id="attachment_215" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Danny Gokey had to wait until after the break to find out that he had made the final 12 instead of Tatiana Del Toro."][/caption]
“Is your favorite through? Take nothing for granted,” Ryan warns us as he walks past the darkened line of the twelve who performed last night. We are live, and Ryan announces that the show got an unprecedented amount of votes: 24 million, which is almost 10 million mo...
This Is Already Strange
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Posted February 18th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
This Is Already Strange
by Mordant Monkey
[caption id="attachment_205" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Casey Carlson had portions from her performance that had the audience wondering if she was doing a screaching monkey impression."][/caption]
Well, this is it—the first post-Hollywood Week episode. There’s the classic line-up of the contestants on the stairs, as Ryan tells us that this group of twelve has made it through to face the toughest audience of all...
You’ve Got to be Kiddin’ Me
[caption id="attachment_182" align="alignright" width="407" caption="Tatiana Del Toro singing in the Hollywood Round."][/caption]
American Idol has simply become an exercise is feeding the viewers appetizer after appetizer of mediocre snippets of nothingness. This week proved that the editors of the seemingly hours of footage could yet again dip into that well and concoct the same 42 minutes of the musical talent contest slash soap opera that has grandpa and grade schoolers alike hook...
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