Pissed at the jidges
The judging on SYTYCD is rapidly becoming the worst part of the show. (And forgive me, but I miss Mary Murphy. Yes, she was over the top with her screaming and "Hot Tamale Train" … mmm, tamales … uh, where was I? … but on the other hand she could judge with but a glance. She could say more with a…

No argument on the replays. But the opening of the performance show had serious technical problems. If Nikki Parsons' IMDb entry is to be believed, she's a seasoned director of musical/variety TV, so she should know her way around a stage. Plus, we're in the seventh season of a show with an established opening format.…

It was Bieberriffic
Generally in agreement throughout again, Genevieve. I'm not as down on Nabitha and Tapoleon as everyone else, however. SYTYCD has created its own niche, or bubble, or panic room, within the dance universe, and N/T fit nicely within it. As does Tyce, whose commitment to preserving the choreography…

Agreed on Janette.

Grumble, grumble, kidsgetoffmylawn, grumble …
— While I don't hate the new format, I definitely miss the old.
— After praising new director Nikki Parsons last week, I was embarrassed to see the sloppy direction and camera selection this week, particularly in the dancer intros. (It was so bad it appeared to be a…

She could be Typhoid-frickin-Mary for all I care. After several months of Ryan Seacrest, ANY host is a welcome respite.

DON'T YOU SAY NOTHIN' BAD ABOUT CAT!!

The boneheadedness continues
Oh, Sweet Baby Jeebus did I very much agree with this review, Genevieve!

Agreed on the contrast. Good point.

And the next plot point will be …
Many years ago, when I was a young, aspiring cartoonist, I bought this thing called a Laugh-o-Meter, which was basically a spinner on a big piece of cardboard. Around the dial of the spinner were gag elements like "Location," "Character" and "Comedy Type" (irony, revenge, mistaken…

"…and for our next trick…"
"SYTYCD burnout as Season Six followed Season Seven with hardly a break…"

The download barometer
OK, I'll admit right up front here that I'm one of the geeks who downloads favorite Idol performances from iTunes (but NOT because Seacrest tells me to!).

I enjoy the Index every week, but …
today's was the laugh-out-loud … iest (?).

Dream scenario
Mike O'Malley knocks it out of the park with each appearance on "Glee," but I continue to harbor a desire that his character will turn out to be the same as he played on "My Own Worst Enemy," a sleeper assassin awaiting his activation signal. And let that signal arrive at the moment he realizes his son…

A purgatory of their own making
A recurring theme I'm seeing in comments and analysis about the finale basically boils down to this: "After years of Lindelof and Cuse telling us it's NOT purgatory, they go ahead and fashion a purgatory?"

Slap in the face
If I were this season's Idol contestants, other than not wanting to drive a Ford or drink a Coke again, I would be greatly pissed that they put that wtf-singer Travis Garland on the results show. It's like the producers are saying to the contestants, "OK, we made you suffer through dozens of tryouts…

Disappointing way to end the season
Except for Phil and Jay, most everything about this episode was disappointing. Parts of it (Claire being the OCD Bitch Goddess; Mitchell overdoing the scaredy-cat thing) were downright excruciating to watch.

A song for Todd
And now, a thank-you song for Todd, for his heartfelt review above and for his decision to cover "Cougar Town" next year, sung to the tune of "The Girl from Ipanema":

Coming this fall on Fox … "Fringe Division"
My favorite aspect of this episode was how it was presented as if it were the pilot for a new science fiction action-adventure series about a wise-cracking team of badass investigators seeking the origins of weird anomalies and threats to their universe. The way the three…

I'm convinced the point of the Statue scene was to point out that their Statue is bronze, not copper, as ours is. (Look at any aged bronze statue.)