At least the city looked nice. I'm sorry to say that my hometown Chicago didn't offer too much in terms of talent or hilarious non-talent on tonight's audition episode. However, the production crew did nab some beautiful footage of our fair city in the summertime: you really must visit. Have you heard of Barack Obama? He is from here.
I should have known that the episode would be a drag when the first sob story of the night was a girl whose mother put her husband on blast on national TV for divorcing her. Guys, don't leave your wives unless you want to see them complaining about you to Ryan Seacrest. I wasn't too psyched about most of the girls who made it through. There was one chick who irritated me because everything about her was too cute: her name is Charity Vance, she was raised in an in-home beauty salon owned by her whole family, she sings to entertain the customers, she acts like the broom is a mic and she sang "Summertime." Ugh.
The exception though was Angela Martin—you might remember has as the gal from Chicago a few seasons back who was taking care of her disabled daughter. After going through personal trauma the first time she got through to Hollywood and having some legal issues the second time, she was back again, and Simon actually said some truly sincerely nice things to her. It feels like the show wants her to make it all the way to the top 20 this time.
Otherwise, the show seemed to be peppered with bad, not-noteworthy auditions from outgoing big-boned people. I have a feeling that there is a new wave of people trying out ironically who are actually big non-ironic fans of Glee, like the chick who made her boobs bounce up and down as she sang. She had so much personality! And yet was something of a misfit! If only there was a show for people like her! (Well there was, and Ben Folds was a judge on it. Go figure).