The X Factor - Season 1

As the inaugural season of The X Factor came to a close and the finalists' hometown supporters began to lay it on as…

We're in the home stretch, and while it feels like I've died and been reincarnated several times since the first X…

Tonight's X Factor results were certainly an anticlimactic lead in to the finals week, but I guess it had to happen…

God, what more is there to say about The X Factor performance shows at this point? Last week I commented that we…

Another X Factor results show, another Thursday night with the unsettling sound of a child crying coming from my…

You're never going to hear this from me again in any other context whatsoever, so savor it while it lasts: Thank God…

It seems obvious to say that as The X Factor progresses its eliminations get more and more intense, but it’s not…

It’s a dark and stormy night in Los Angeles. The palm trees are thrashing around violently and car alarms are going…

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…

I gotta admit, kids, an hour into tonight’s The X Factor: Thanksgiving Edition ( Now with more grainy family photos…

Now that was an episode of reality television. After fighting through the last couple weeks’ X Factor results shows…

Why see The X Factor live? This is the question I began asking myself as I sat alone in a holding area outside CBS…

Who would have thought that out of a sea of talent featuring such luminous acts as 4Shore, 2Squard, and InTENsity,…

There are times when I legitimately think that The X Factor is a fun and refreshing update of the formula American…

Well, I’m yelling at the television again, which means that The X Factor must be in full swing. I was pretty curious…

As thrilled as I was last week to see the judges on a singing competition actually judging, it seems to have all…

We made it, guys! Y'know, no matter how much the death march of auditions/boot camp/judges' homes threatened to bore…

Hey, campers! First off, I'd like to thank Phil Nugent for his excellent fill-in duty this past week while I…

The first time I filled in for Emily in this space, I felt a little sheepish and uncertain of my opinions about the…

Bad news: Emily is otherwise engaged tonight, so I'm filling in for her. As anyone who's read her reviews knows,…