Photographer / Designer at CITY Newspaper. Fan of movie scores, Top Chef, patchwork madras, homemade mac & cheese, Vampire Weekend, and swash-y typography. I am very particular about my orange juice.
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Sweet! I can't believe s06 starts so soon -- I feel like 'Masters' just got going, but that's because I keep forgetting that it's just a quick 7(?) episode blip to tide us over.
Pam: I freakin' love Cat. It's nice to see a host who seems to genuinely like and want to be supportive of the contestants, rather than someone winking at the audience with an "Aren't I awesome? Watch meeee!" tone.
Cat said that Sean Kingston is a teenage star? The way he hobbled around the stage, I started to think he was in his 80's! And I don't know who to blame for how small his head looked -- he was a Violet Beauregarde-proportioned hip-hop strawberry. Oh, and the performance was atrocious too.
Otherwise, I totally agree with Kathy -- happy all around, but I personally enjoyed the opening group dance.
Jonathan's a little *too* "cute as a button" for my taste. Probably hampered by the fact that I thought he mugged for the camera several times too often, but it might've just been the angles. Similarly, maybe it was the angles the judges were sitting at, but I was surprised when they crowned Caitlin and Jason's Bollywood routine as perfection -- I thought it was very good, but she was off several times.
I was surprised how much I really enjoyed Randi & Evan's routine, but my favorite of the night was hands down Wade Robson's. I don't think you could get the entire back story of the robots as Wade described in the rehearsal footage, but I feel like he always creates more intricate histories for his dancers' characters which help THEM, but only bits of which come out on stage. With that, he always pays such attention to all the other production values and his music choices are always terribly different from the other choreographers and sick as hell. His "Triplets of Belleville" routine from season 3 with Sarah and Jesus and the newspapers remains my all-time favorite for the show.
I had the exact same thought about the hot dogs. I hope they bring the "against an expert" tast test again, though, as the idea has merit. Maybe it's because it's only the second episode, but the food doesn't yet seem as inspired as last season's was. Blame it on the challenges, or the contestants?
Friendly staff, free wireless, and a good cup of coffee. What's not to like?
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Poor Chris. I loved your cute underdog-ness in the beginning. Your win and your being in the top made me proud. Now, as soon as you open your mouth with what your concept is, our entire apartment shouts at the screen "DON'T DO IT CHRIS!!"