TheGreenKnight

I didn't like anyone from last night's show, tbh. Georgia came the closest, but I think she'll get screwed over just like Florida and New Jersey were. I wish Jewel had taken up one of the four spots from the previous show if somebody was going to knock Florida out rather than Riker, ugh. At least the Alabama duo and Texas guy made it through. I was not a bit surprised when another White guy with a guitar was immediately declared safe. That's happened every single time other than Jordan Smith. The Jury needs to get better taste. Of course America gets it wrong constantly, but they should do better; only the guy at the end of the first episode deserved the Jury's #1 vote so far. Tennessee guy was deserving of top four of his week, but #1? I don't think so. So far we have three people who made it through to the next round that I don't like--Jordan, Riker, weird '70s-ish White guy that ended the show last night. At least Michael Bolton had good vocals and his song was decent even if I felt the only reason he got into the top four off was name value.

I like Katyrah almost more than Nicolina. Noah is great, too. Although I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as "Stay," it was definitely solid. Allegra was probably my next favorite. Fritz and Sir Blayke were just alright. Lady K was disappointing, think I would've preferred the other song, but I still hope she sticks around. Katy's face during Cameron's performance was exactly how I felt (same with Tristen on the previous show). Christian was much better than his duet, but he's even worse than Kenedi was as far as overdoing it.

Oops, double post. Anyway, to fill this with something else--I hope everyone is right about Kenedi getting signed by a legit label being the reason she withdrew. Success is so random, but I really wish her well. She has a great voice even if she becomes out-of-control at times. I'd much rather hear music from her than someone like Gabby Barrett. *shrug*

Elli and Nicolina were the best ones on this episode. Elli definitely has potential here if that wasn't just a one-off good performance. She reminds me a bit of Maddie Poppe, someone who had more ethereal vocals that were beautiful without ever going for glory notes (despite her voice being easily capable of them). Jay was just okay this time. The country guy (was that Dan?) was terrible, but we already knew that. I'm glad they took away his prop, it makes it more obvious his vocal is very poor. The whole show needs to ban instruments for the contestants, imo, because it only helps bad singers go farther than they should (and often win). I like Jimmie Allen as advisor and enjoyed his performance.

I loved Joan Rivers. I would always watch Fashion Police for her the same way I do The View for Joy, and FP going down in flames quickly without her is what I expect to happen to The View whenever Joy leaves. I've loved having Joy moderating the past two days, even with Alyssa there, and hopefully this means she'll be moderating Wednesday and Thursday, too. I find Alyssa sort of stiff and boring. And she fools nobody with this fake nice act she's putting on while auditioning; the true her is still there bubbling under the surface, like when she tried to pretend both sides politicized masks and vaccines. That was laughable and I'm glad the panel treated it that way.

I still can't shake the feeling the artist is up to something, and now I think he's connected to the whole business Miss Lambe talked about this episode (about the family questioning her "moral character" in a bid to take her fortune away from her). I feel like he's going to claim more than a painting happened in order to help destroy her reputation. I liked the father's actor a little more this episode, still not overly fond of him. Lennox is already full-on villain to me. Trying to ice Colbourne out at the party, getting territorial with Charlotte, trying to humiliate him, all the angry faces, etc. I like what they're doing with Clara and Esther's relationship so far. Clara would probably want to go along with Edward's marriage idea even if she doesn't go along with the rest of his scheme, just to keep her reputation and the baby's from being destroyed whether or not he ends up leaving her later once the rest of his plan fails.

Two more people who messed up questions that were mostly basic math. I'm referring to Rodney missing the question about who ran for president again 32 years after they previously ran in 1988 and then the old guy having some question dividing 150 million by 30 million (he said 20 million...). The latter really cracked me up because even after she told him the answer, he still looked mystified.

Happy we got a Joy-moderated show this week, after all. Ana is right that Americans don't believe in the process when there continue to be no consequences for blatant crimes. And like with Sunny bringing up Hillary Clinton having warned that Trump would run again, everybody knows it's coming back around and that (as Alyssa said) they will attempt another coup if he loses again in 2024, only with more people in positions to help that happen via midterm successes this time around. Sunny's nudgewink about JLO being on her 4th marriage ("I'm sure it'll all work out.") made me giggle.

I believe the last time there was a rerun week, they chose a Tafoya show then, too. Seems like Grisham, Farrah, and Tafoya are the top picks for Teta and whoever else is making the decision... Grisham's been back twice in a very short time frame, this is Farrah's third time, and Tafoya has the two times plus all the re-runs of her previous shows.

Wow, I never would've guessed this would get cancelled before The Talk. I'd love a solo The Loni Love Show someday.

Joy: "It's funny that she (MTG) is a joke, but she can't take a joke." I guess the benefit of her being off Monday is she was on fire the rest of this week. I'm glad Ana brought up how MTG had supported insurrectionists who were violent against capitol police in the past, she only cares about them as it relates to herself. I was also happy when Ana took the Justice KBJ discussion backwards and pointed out that Clyburn and the voters (and KBJ herself, with all her experience) ultimately played the biggest role in helping to break that ceiling of first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Very striking to have Kamala Harris there at the same time this happened, presiding over the vote.

I wish there was a .gif of Whoopi's face from after they played that Open House clip. One of those times when her face said it all.

Loved Joy mocking Grisham for pretending to believe Trump. Joy: "Even in this interview, he sounds as sensitive as a toilet seat." 😂

I'm probably weird this way, but nobody who's tried out to me has been as bad as her. Similar to how none of the conservative co-hosts prior to her were nearly as bad. She was unique in her level of awfulness. Even though Grisham is very unlikable and I think it's pretty irresponsible for the show to consider people with the particular kind of experience she and Farrah have at all, I know I could endure them because the others can counter anything they say. It was more the screaming over everyone and the others never being allowed to confront anything she said directly that made princess so horrible (in tandem with the kowtowing to her from ABC / the show). Probably the one who's come the closest as far as causing general tension in the atmosphere of the show is probably Tafoya, tbh, but even she's nothing in comparison.

Ugh, Grisham resorting to victimizing herself now. Poor baby.

I enjoyed Sunny bursting the bubble on this first segment. While I agree with Sara that people should be unafraid to go into these other spaces and speak, I disagree with her that there isn't a good point there somewhere about legitimizing these people by giving them a platform via an interview. Sunny is right that it's moved so far past a difference of opinion, that they're spewing pro-Russia propaganda at this point and it's not the fringe despite what Grisham would like to believe (or, rather, mislead). Still, there was this: Sunny: "I'm the curmudgeon this morning." Joy: "'This morning'?" LOL

I just assumed he made it and they didn't show him. That would be such a shame because he was so good!

??? Not sure what you're talking about. Are you talking to @GHScorpiosRule or @Cozytea from last page and forgot to quote perhaps? But if you were talking to me, yesterday was Monday....?

Especially since she was a Platinum Ticket winner. Why oh why couldn't it have been Huntergirl instead?

That's interesting. I didn't like Chayce at all. Chayce wasn't a country contestant until the last two weeks of the show either, from what I recall. I suppose if we're consigned to getting WGWGs on loop again, at least I do like Noah. Nicolina reminds me a great deal of Grace, too, but I preferred Grace, tbh. Those two and Katyra will be the main ones I'm watching for this year, although I like a few others to a lesser degree.

Sunny does mention it more than Ana, but I don't think she's reached Star level yet. Sunny is the type who can't let a sleeping dog lie though. I noticed on Monday she brought up the whole separating-artist-from-the-art discussion that had been mentioned by Joy on Friday even though Joy wasn't even there. I suppose it only stood out to me because when Joy said it on Friday, Sunny made this weird, mocking expression that hit me the wrong way. This is how I feel, too. I love her on MSNBC, especially those few times they do special coverage and it's her, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Steve Kornacki together (perhaps Claire McCaskill thrown in the mix). She does very well there.

I commented on Grisham's crazy eyes back when she guested the first time, too. They pulled her lids way too far back. Between that and the duck lips, she might as well be a Real Housewife.

Allegra is going to get eliminated after the top 24 shows, because they didn't even show her performance. Until last week, I'd never seen her, and was surprised because I kind of liked her voice. She'll be like Andrea Valles, someone who should've gone much farther, but got screwed because of lack of camera time. /sigh. Katyra and Noah were my favorites from what we saw (loved Noah's song choice, hope he does pick more songs like that rather than simply generic country fodder). Kenedi probably next, although she goes a little overboard and out-of-control at times. Nicolina was okay--I did like she went smaller instead of bigger, since you would've expected the latter. Others I liked alright were Sir Blayke, Ryleigh ("Crazy"), and Lady K. I still like Jay even if I wasn't too crazy about that one. I personally don't mind Cadence like others do, but I know she's getting knocked out over the next two shows for sure. I would've chose Dakota over the other country guy at the end (I don't try to remember their names if I don't like them), but, to be honest, they both should've been eliminated. They weren't nearly as good as most of the others; even breaking it down to their type specifically, Noah outclasses them by a mile. I can't believe they kept one of them, but eliminated Jordan. Jordan, while not somebody I would root hard for, was clearly more talented vocally than several they put through. Dontrell is another I would've liked to have made it. I would've preferred to seem more of him over end-of-episode country guy, Leah, Christian, Tristen, or the red-haired girl (Ava?). Tristen so wants to be Adam Lambert, but doesn't have it. Can't knock somebody for trying, I guess.

^ That part made me laugh, too. The woman beside him reacted the same way I did. I can't believe Emanuel wasn't eliminated in the second or third round, they let him win, ugh. I mean, a few funny jokes did come out of him sticking around, but still. When it came down to him and the other dumb guy from the right side, I was just--of course. It's what I expect whenever female contestants end up being the first couple of boots. In the second half, if there are more guys than women, seems like the men almost always pick off the women one after another.

Wow, I was surprised Macy didn't make it in and that Enisa didn't even come close to making it despite being one of the better ones... And with "Fire it up!" guy making through, this show is clearly like Idol and The Voice in preferencing country people as well as Southern states; I thought maybe better results would happen since it's in its first season, possibly. No way one of them or Jordan Smith doesn't win, ugh. Feels like a waste of time watching based, but I'm this far in, might as well finish. I'm glad Kansas guy was so high at least, because he had the best song so far to me without a doubt. The contestants were a little better than the past shows. My favorite was Florida "Flirt", then New Jersey (the pictures song) and Alabama (the duo). Also liked Texas "Mr. Independent" guy, although I think he's a better dancer than singer/songwriter; seems like a JLO type, someone who has star looks and great dancing ability but is only so-so at music. Tennessee was alright, too.