So in the course of human events, if you have to choose between Top Chef and the American Idol season finale…choose Idol.  Here’s why. Last night, we had three shows taping on the DVR…one was the American Idol season finale (2 hours long from 7pm-9pm), the Boston Legal season finale (one hour long, 9pm-10pm) and the new episode of Top Chef (one hour long, also from 9pm-10pm).  Because of certain circumstances, we didn’t start watching Idol until around 7:35pm.  We figured we should be able to catch up with it before the show is...

As soon as I saw the microphone descending from the rafters, I said out loud “Please don’t let Michael Buffer be at the end of that mic…” and apparently today is not my day for wish-granting. I have to admit though, instead of the pomp and circumstance of previous shows where all they wanted to do was try and build up the finale to some unreachable height, I thought the intro and the whole mood tonight was one of self-realization and I’m actually very proud of the Idol crew and stars tonight. I’m proud to say I’m...

Well, well, well…where to begin?  I could spend a couple of paragraphs talking about the train wreck that was Fantasia.  My God, I think the judges were even aghast.  Was it me or was she basically running around the stage and studio yelling “Go!  Go!  Go!” over and over while her back-up singers/dancers were doing the actual song?  I could be really ugly right now and compare her to half the black girls I worked with at Cingular, but I won’t do that… And then there were the hometown visit montages…handled well I...

I didn’t know what else to call this post…so forgive the lack of a cool title. I was going to call it the “American Idol - Just How Much Can We Fit Into One Hour” or “American Idol - It’s The Week Where The Contestants Go Home But You Won’t Be Able To Tell Because We Only Show You About 10 Seconds Of Footage” but those are just much too long…and too obvious. In all honesty, I would’ve liked to have seen more footage of the contestants at home and less songs. Let them sing 2 songs each, with the...

I literally just got finished watching the results of this week’s American Idol show, and so here are my thoughts… WOOHOO!!!!!! In case you missed it, our old friend Kristy Lee Cook has been booted off the show…but we’ll get to what that means in a minute. First off…the show itself was a bit odd. I do remember there being at least once per year where Ryan makes one of the contestants choose a group as to who is safe and who is not. And to make David Archuleta do that this week was just mean. That kid has not one ounce of...