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This week sees the beginning of "American Idol" proper, with live performance shows and elimination episodes. It's late February; the season runs into May. I have no idea how I will make it.
"American Idol," Week Seven: Top 12 Girls Perform
Kind of. Anyway, a fun episode.
A solid episode. Always good to see the real Locke tooling around again:
"American Idol" is now wrapping up its Hollywood Week in typically slow fashion. By the end of this season, I'll be exhausted from all the fake-outs and postponed reveals.
I'm fascinated by the fact that The Beatles' albums were often released in dramatically chopped and repackaged ways to manufacture more content in the United States. I know that even today, albums can have slight changes between their U.K. and U.S. versions, but this seems like an extreme that hasn't been matched in years. The Beatles' U.S. records feel like history from an alternate universe, and I'm now hooked on collecting them.
It's hard to pick a favorite, but "is lady gaga a man" is right up there.
Better than last week's, that's for sure:
Last night's "Lost" was a decent episode, but mainly a set-up for that final reveal.
This week saw the beginning of the major cuts that will winnow the group down to 24 semifinalists, with a final winner being crowned in, let's say, April 2012.
"American Idol," Week Five: Hollywood Round, Part One
UPDATE: "American Idol," Week Five: Hollywood Round, Part Two
Last night's "The Office" was flat and boring and not nearly as good as the preceding episodes of "Community" and "Parks and Recreation." It reminded me of how Jim and Pam were jerks for a while a couple seasons back. Here's hoping the show gets its groove back soon:
"Lost" is back for its final season, and I'll be recapping it for Pajiba, because I'm just that obsessive.
This week wraps the major audition phase (it's hard to think of the season as just one very long audition), and as such, there's a kind of finals week sense of boredom and waiting for something to happen.
"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
— Pauline Kael
"Film lovers are sick people."
— Francois Truffaut
"Let others praise ancient times, I am glad I was born in these."
— Ovid
