Emmy Nominees Announced!

Below are the nominees for the major categories of the Emmys nominations released earlier today. I will post my thoughts and picks in the near future, but needless to say, the Emmy voters got more right than usual, but why do people who hate television so much get to select what is the best of [...]

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Best And Worst of the 2008-2009 TV Season

First, the good news.
Best Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Years of Devotion to How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs has been painful at times, as both of these hilarious but criminally under watched shows suffered from time slot shifts and near cancellation more than once. But HIMYM’s fifth season was all but assured this [...]

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And Our Idol for 2009 is…

Idol is being self congratulatory again. I know it’s a ratings powerhouse, but this is ridiculous. It’s not like Simon Fuller has discovered the cure for cancer.
Gwen asks why they are wearing white. Oy.
I’m looking forward to tonight. All the pressure is off. But can Kris and Adam sing together without sounding totally weird?
Kris was [...]

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At This Moment, Idol Means Everything

Oh, Idol. I had such high hopes.
First off, Idol is mighty proud of itself. It is every season, but that opening tape was incredibly smug and self-congratulatory. Too many shots of Kara speaking absolute bullshit. And RyRy… well, he’s Seacrest. We know he’s a douche.
Anyone one else here had nightmares at the start about the [...]

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Today I got a record number eleven spam comments. Oh, and about 65 people read my essay about the modern sitcom. But I digress. Idol never gets me major hits, Chuck and The Big Bang Theory do. Which reminds me- look for upcoming posts on DTTMOT about the finales for all my faves. It’ll just [...]

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The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round

First off, I got to tell the idiot spammers thinking I want to see Audrina Partridge nude- I don’t. Not Patricia Heaton. Or anybody else. And my spam collector catches you. And I will never, ever approve your “comments”.  So quit wasting everyone’s time, please. It’s irritating.
Second off, I’m glad they do two songs this [...]

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Scream.

Minutes before Idol began, Slash tweeted that he would be performing an Alice Cooper song. Nice.
So we get an overhead push in with a single spotlight to RyRy in the pit. This… Is.. American…Chopper. ( no, wait, wrong show). Then we get our weekly lame ass Ford Vid, then a group sing in which the [...]

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It’s Been A Long Time Since I Rock and Rolled.

So, I’ve been in a Chuck coma for the past week, after an awesome finale last Monday and then the jerking around NBC has done on Chuck fans this past week, cumulating  in the announcement that the show would not be in Monday’s in-fronts, and that we have to wait another fifteen days. At least [...]

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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehn, Goodbye

So, off the top- the Ford commercial is lame, the group sing was only slightly better than usual, and the judges are stupid. ( Well, they haven’t done anything offensive as of this moment, but it bears repeating.)
The typical breakdown that Idol does for top five week, creating two groups of two and making the [...]

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Idol News

Apparently, this is happening next week:
SlashHudson I’m going to attempt to make “Rock Week” on American Idol exactly that. # fb
Slash is going to be on EFFING IDOL????

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They Can Take This Away From Me, DAMMIT!

Idol and standards weeks has previously delivered some great performances- Kelly Clarkson’s ” Stuff Like That There”, Fantasia’s ” Summertime” immediately come to mind.  But it’s a week that always worries me, because there might be a desire by the Idols in the effort for relevance to strip the melodies of classic, beautiful songs to [...]

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Do a Little Dance, Make A Little Love, Go Home Tonight

Fucking Idol had to remind me of Paula’s “sexy” comment for DWP last night? Why does Idol hate me so when all I do is love snark it?
Anyhoo, tonight’s Idol will be interrupted as I will watch part of the East coast Letterman feed- one of my future husbands is on, and the EC feed [...]

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I Love The Nightlife, I like to Boogie, on The Idol Sta—ay–ay–ge, Yeah

Wow, we’re moving quick this week. Did Fringe fans threaten Seacrest’s life? Or did Fox execs? (I’m betting it was the Fringsters).
Lil Rounds goes with Chaka Khan’s legendary ” I’m Every Woman” and completely butchers the modulation of the chorus, goes sharp constantly on her big notes, and is a general train wreck. That was [...]

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We can Dance If We want To- The Safety Dance

Oh. My. God. Has Idol now become a UFC grudge match? WTF is up with that opening?
RyRy looks smirky and smarmy.
Looky, the Idols did a Ford vid to J. Geils Band’s 80s cheestastic ” Freeze Frame”.
“Maniac”? Really? Idol couldn’t clear a better song that?Oh, and it was painfully live, not canned. I’m in agony.
Adam looks [...]

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Raise Your Hopeful Voice, You Have a Choice- So Don’t Choose Wrong

Quentin Tarantino, all-round pop culture geek, is this week’s mentor. I know some people have issues with this development, but I don’t. QT was a guest judge in season three ( he was a Fantasia fan), and every single one of his critiques were more spot on than any of the judges. In retrospect, he’s [...]

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Thirty Thousand Is Awfully Close

Frankie Avalon? Really? Although he is the Teen Angel. And Allison’s hair looks as though it was done buy Frenchie. Beauty School Dropout indeed. ” Venus”, fine, whatever.
That is the worst group sing ever.  Oh. My. God. Just awful.
That was also a really bad Ford vid.
Adam, Kris, and Anoop stand up, and the judges are [...]

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I Would Sing “Anarchy In The U.K.” For The Year You Were Born Week… But I Digress

An Idol favorite indeed, RyRy with the buck teeth.
Danny does a version of  “Stand By Me” which is cheesy and stupid, just like DWP himself. I’m sorry, I don’t get the appeal. Why is he number one every week. Gwenny says it’s a different version of pimping the DW type of song. He wasn’t in [...]

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Caaaaaw, Caaaaaw

We get another idiotic opening montage ( does Idol think it’s now a CBS procedural?), and a Ford Commercial that was really heinous, before the Idols launch into a halfway decent group sing. Now, I love me some ” Don’t Stop Believing”, and the opener with Allison and Kris was amazing ( they are clearly [...]

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If One Train Smashes Into The Idol Stage, How Many Idols Get Wiped Out In the Process

Top Downloads turned out to encompass every Tunes list in the history of I Tunes. So… we got the music world on a string. What did our Idols come up with?
Anoop tackled Usher, and his ” Caught Up” was competent, but pitchy. He also lacked a certain swagger in the vocals. Simply too smooth for [...]

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And So Michael Comes To The End Of the Road

It’s so natural. He needed to go. He needed to be better and failed.
Go…to the end of the road…
Sorry, prom flashback. Never mind.
The now admittedly sweetened group sing was as awful as usual. Next!
The less said about the Ford thing the better.
Ruben looked like… well, Ruben, and he was sweating heavy as he sang his [...]

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