The X Factor: “Bootcamp #3”/“Judge’s House #1”
Well guys, it’s been a long, strange, melisma-filled trip together, but it looks like we’ve come to the end of the…
The X Factor
The X Factor: “Boot Camp #1”/“Boot Camp #2”
It’s safe to say I have no idea what’s happening on The X Factor at any given moment. Eschewing hosts and voiceover and…
The X Factor: “Auditions #5”/“Auditions #6”
Wednesday night’s episode of The X Factor really threw itself into a tizzy with all the shocks!!! it dispensed in the…
The X Factor: “Auditions #3”/“Auditions #4”
In a wise move, The X Factor devoted much of its debut week to celebrating the fact that pop princess Britney Spears…
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The X Factor: “Auditions #2”
It’s barely been 24 hours since Britney made her grand debut on The X Factor and the Internet has embraced her wholly…
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The X Factor: “Auditions #1”
Oof. It’s a steep learning curve to get up to speed when you’ve been out of the competitive-singing TV game for a…
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The X Factor: “Season Finale, Part 2”
As the inaugural season of The X Factor came to a close and the finalists' hometown supporters began to lay it on as…
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The X Factor: “Season Finale, Part 1”
We're in the home stretch, and while it feels like I've died and been reincarnated several times since the first X…
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The X Factor: “Results Show - Top 4”
Tonight's X Factor results were certainly an anticlimactic lead in to the finals week, but I guess it had to happen at…
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The X Factor: “Top 4 Perform”
God, what more is there to say about The X Factor performance shows at this point? Last week I commented that we were…
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The X Factor: “Results Show - Top 5”
Another X Factor results show, another Thursday night with the unsettling sound of a child crying coming from my…
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The X Factor: “Top 5 Perform”
You're never going to hear this from me again in any other context whatsoever, so savor it while it lasts: Thank God…
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The X Factor: “Results Show - Top 7”
It seems obvious to say that as The X Factor progresses its eliminations get more and more intense, but it’s not always…
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The X Factor: “Top 9 - Results”
It’s a dark and stormy night in Los Angeles. The palm trees are thrashing around violently and car alarms are going off…
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The X Factor: “Top 9 - Results”
And so the saga of Astro vs. The X Factor comes to a close… for now. In tonight's more or less tightly paced results…
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The X Factor: “Top 9 Perform”
I gotta admit, kids, an hour into tonight’s The X Factor: Thanksgiving Edition ( Now with more grainy family photos and…
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The X Factor: “Results Show - Top 10”
Now that was an episode of reality television. After fighting through the last couple weeks’ X Factor results shows…
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The X Factor: “Top 10 Perform”
Why see The X Factor live? This is the question I began asking myself as I sat alone in a holding area outside CBS…
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The X Factor: “Results Show - Top 11”
Who would have thought that out of a sea of talent featuring such luminous acts as 4Shore, 2Squard, and InTENsity, the…
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The X Factor: “Top 11 Perform”
There are times when I legitimately think that The X Factor is a fun and refreshing update of the formula American Idol …