We're finally getting down to the Top 12. Doesn't it seem like this process has gone on longer than normal this season? I think it was the return to the three weeks of whittling down during semis. I much preferred the system they used last year,...

I knew that last season was the "short cycle," only featuring girls 5'7" or shorter. I did not know that this season was the "hideous cycle," starring almost exclusively unattractive, stank bitches. I know Tyra has made some questionable...

It was role-reversal week as the guys - who came into semis seriously sucking - somehow kicked the girls' asses in Week 3 of semi-finals. There was only one really bad performance, a couple pitchy but acceptable ones, and several really...

We're down to just eight ladies, so it was blessedly only an hour tonight. When the show opened, Ellen was nuzzling Simon with her nose, Ryan was sitting in Ellen's chair, and I thought Kara was Alanis Morissette for a second. Very...

Ryan started the episode ominously by promising that "Drama is about to unfold on this stage." Apparently Simon felt that he got some stuff wrong last night, and said that one person that he paid compliments to was so bad watching it back on TV...

After Crystal's illness yesterday, which forced the guys and girls to switch performance nights, our resident busker chick was back, and apparently just fine. I'll be honest, I thought this was maybe the show's way of getting rid of a really...

I was surprised, and disappointed, to discover that the Top 10 guys were performing instead of the girls. Nobody's really very good this year, but the ladies are certainly the stronger of the sexes. The reason for the switch: Crystal Bowersox was...

Welcome back to the "American Idol" deathwatch. This week more than 24 million votes were cast for the Top 24 performers. Really? Who is voting for these people? I've read multiple blogs refer to this as the worst Top 24 ever, and while I won't...

Last night the Top 12 girls did a so-so job ushering us into the Season 9 semi-finals. Tonight it was up to the guys. Just about everyone, including Simon, has said that the men are sorely lacking this year (possibly by the producers' design)....

I give up. I have accepted the fact that I will never understand the new scoring system for skating. I do not understand how America's Mirai Nagasu, who put in a short program I thought was equal or better to Japan's fourth-place finisher Miki...

Semi-finals begin! While I think the Top 24 as a whole is fairly mediocre -- there is some major talent, but a whole lot of filler -- the Top 12 GIRLS are very, very strong. I was excited going in to this episode, to see how they would stand up...

The episode opened with Sonique being a terrible bitch about Mystique, including calling her "shit." Ouch. To her credit, Tatianna stuck up for Mystique, and I gained some respect for her. However, for all of Tatianna's bitching about Sonique's...

After hours of boring, BORING snowboarding runs, we finally got to the men's long program after 10 p.m. EST. UGH! And then they had to interrupt it to give us the medal ceremony for...snowboarding. Hello, some of us have to work in the...

Mike Lynch, Didi BenAmi, Todrick Hall, Lee DeWyze, Katelynn Epperly, Aaron Kelly, and Casey James got through in last night's bullshit second hour. The final 17 slots in the Top 24 were revealed tonight. Kind of! With one bizarre...

Despite TWO HOURS of "American Idol" (totally unnecessary) I was able to catch almost all of the men's short program last night thanks to the magic of DVR. I found that I was much more engaged with this competition than the pairs showdown the...

Because the Olympics are on, and because Fox needs to get ratings however it can, tonight's episode was TWO HOURS LONG. And it all could have been taken care of in literally less than an hour. The padding was out of control. The episode opened...

I missed a good chunk of the night's coverage because I was watching "RuPaul's Drag Race" (I have priorities! Don't judge me!), but I was still able to catch parts of snowboard cross and pairs figure skating. And also: POLAR BEARS!
I believe...

RuPaul started the episode by revealing that she was a country queen who got her start in Atlanta, and that she would eat whatever she had to to survive. That was a semi-forced seque into the mini-challenge, a mystery meat taste test. The...

-When I turned on the TV Friday night, literally almost the first thing I saw was the actual footage of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dying during his practice run on the sledding course earlier that day. That was shocking to me. I have a...

Anthony opened the episode with the brilliant observation that being in the Bottom 3 means that there's no place to go but up. Actually, that's not accurate - look at Jesus, who spent three out of four weeks on the bottom and then got eliminated....