9/13/12
Ratings: Britney and Demi Didn’t Help
Going against The Voice, Simon's show actually drew its smallest audience ever.
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Simon Cowell, you stole two hours of our lives with the X Factor season finale.
The X Factor Recap: It’s the End of the World and I Feel Drowsy
You guys, The X Factor is almost over!
The X Factor Recap: Britney Does Not Approve
A better host on a better show would have asked Brit why she gave the gas face.
The X Factor Recap: Good Night, Sweet Princesses
Once you have visited the X Factor VIP Tent, it is difficult to come back down to earth.
The X Factor Recap: From the Belly of the Beast
In which we watch the episode from the VIP tent.
The X Factor Recap: Wow. Phenomenal.
Between Mario Lopez, Khloe Kardashian, and Britney Spears, The X Factor is the world’s leading producer of fixed, joyless smiles.
The X Factor Recap: Scream, Shout, Stall
So we are down to our top eight here on The X Factor, yet the performance shows are still two hours long.
The X Factor Recap: Thanksgiving Massacre
We wrote this with an elephant-tranquilizer level of tryptophan still coursing through our stiffened arteries.
The X Factor Recap: So Grateful
For some reason, there are two episodes this Thanksgiving week.
The X Factor Recap: Double Unhappiness
It was a double elimination night, folks!
The X Factor Recap: Songs by the Divas
Let me grab my X-Factorese-to-English dictionary. Oh, here we go; that means “songs sung by people who have sung songs.”
The X Factor Recap: Decision 2012
The synopsis of last night's episode read: "a number of contestants are sent home." But how many?
The X Factor Recap: But What Is a Movie, Really?
Last night’s theme was Songs From the Movies, one of those themes that is defined so broadly that it is essentially meaningless.
The X Factor Recap: Very, Very Hard Decisions
It’s our first live results show of the season, everybody!
The X Factor Recap: Tank It, Bro
Fate has never been kind to The X Factor, but in the last couple of weeks, it’s just been straight-up cruel.
The X Factor Recap: Going Home Would Really Blow
This is the episode, sort of, that we were supposed to see last week, but then baseball happened.
The X Factor Recap: Now We’re Getting Somewhere
Last day of boot camp, y'all.
The X Factor Recap: Pairing Off
At the beginning of last night's episode, 60 acts remained. Sixty.
The X Factor Recap: A Sad Britney, a Missing Panda, and 1997 Throws Up on You
After what seems like twelve years, it’s time for BOOT CAMP.
The X Factor Recap: Auditions Come to a Close
Can it really be?
The X Factor Recap: Britney’s Got Jokes
They have to fill out episodes somehow.
The X Factor Recap: Pepsi Ambassadors
These early X Factor episodes are a tough slog.
The X Factor Recap: Panda Has Pneumonia
That didn't stop her from singing amazingly, though.
The X Factor Recap: Hot People With Bad Voices
An endless parade of singers have pleasing faces but make terrible mouth-sounds.
The X Factor Recap: And So We Begin Again
They've made a couple of changes, in case you hadn't heard.
The X Factor Finale Recap: Wonderful, Wonderful Stuff
We have a winner.
The X Factor Recap: Five Million Dollars’ Worth of Integrity
"This show isn’t about hitting all the notes."
The X Factor Recap: And Then There Were Three
It’s time to face ... the ... hour of television that has .75 seconds of action in it.
The X Factor Recap: The One Without Rachel
You are not history's greatest monster, Nicole! There are probably ten or eleven who are worse.
The X Factor Recap: Witness the Most Excruciating Moment on Reality TV
Nice job, Nicole. Way to punch a Muppet in the face.
The X Factor Recap: Dave Holmes Reports From Inside the Theater
You get the sense that the warm-up comic has one of those bombs from Speed attached to his midsection, and if there is a moment that doesn’t sound like a soccer riot, he will explode.
The X Factor Recap: Let’s Re-Mangle Michael Jackson!
Blanket's in the audience for his dad's "tribute," and he's not having any of it.
The X Factor Recap: Deadlock Graphic
Tonight, The X Factor is celebrating Thanksgiving.
The X Factor Recap: Tasting Notes
Either I am drunk or Paula told them, “You ... are ... grapefruit.”
The X Factor Recap: Simon Goes In
Astro does not take it well.
The X Factor Recap: Fantastic or Train Wreck
It's ROCK NIGHT.
The X Factor: Every Second Is a Highlight
What is the leather-catsuit age of consent in the state of California?
The X Factor Recap: From the Movies, Loosely Defined
"Don’t hate, just congratulate.”
The X Factor Recap: Nightmare Situation
"I don’t ... know ... how ... America is going to ... choose ... who ... their favorites.”
The X Factor Recap: Whoops, the Judges Forgot It Was a Singing Competition Again!
The judges almost completely ignore the noises coming from the stage, which were sometimes the wrong noises.
The X Factor Recap: The 30 Degree Angle
"You can rely on the old man’s money ... because you gotta have faith."
The X Factor Recap: Seventeen Finalists, 32 Fake-Outs
Simon and Paula have taught L.A. and Nicole the "I'm sorry to say ... you're not NOT not going forward" trick.
The X Factor Recap: Wait! It’s Actually Starting to Get Fun!
Still too long, sure, but this week we saw glimmers of what this show could be.
The X Factor Recap: Rihanna, Pharell, and Enrique Iglesias Swing By for a Cup of Sugar
The judges enlist a little help in the "pretending these people have talent" department.
The X Factor Recap: Who Gets to Go to Paula’s House?
The final 32 are announced, and those being teamed with coach Paula better be ready to take off their shoes.
The X Factor Recap: Boot Camp Means Group Mangling of Pop Songs!
And some people who hope to professionally make noise with their mouths have never heard Radiohead’s “Creep.”
The X Factor Recap: Finally, the End of Audition Road (Located Just Off Fake Suspense Avenue)
"Without the power of fast forward, I feel like I’m serving some kind of jazzy jury duty."
The X Factor Recap: Face the Wedding D.J.’s Music
Holding auditions in Chicago means meeting thousands of people who’ve been asked to retake level one at Second City.
The X Factor Recap: Dave Holmes on Joke Auditions and a Singing Ghost-Hunter
'The X Factor' actually managed to surprise Holmes at least twice, and he doesn't know how to feel about it.
The X Factor Recap: Dave Holmes Tries to Figure Out How This Is Not American Idol
The judges drink Pepsi instead of Coke, and Paula never vomited at the sight of a penis on 'Idol.'
Paulina Rubio is also a new judge.
The Following was a bloody hit, but it wasn't enough to make up for American Idol's downward ratings spiral.
She'll be back for season three.
He won't be back for season three.
You may start rejoicing.
And she was fine. Totally fine.
He thinks "she’ll probably do it."
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