American Idol - FOX

The Gist

American Idol is a reality TV show where normal, every-day people try-out in front of the three infamous judges Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler to get a chance at becoming the next singing sensation. The first few weeks the judges get to decide who gets to go through and who doesn’t. The weeks following, America gets to do the deciding and vote for who they want to stay on the show. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the preformance show and the elimination show. Watch and pick your next American Idol.


What We Think

Reviewed by Dream Catcher

Number of Seasons: 10

This is one of my favorite reality TV shows. I always make sure to catch it on tuesdays and wednesdays to vote for my favorite singer. Sometimes I even vote more than once for this person. For example…once when two of my friends were over we watched the show and voted for one guy 1000 times. Literally 1000 times. But that was just us going over-board and being crazy. Most people only vote once or twice. The weirdest part of this show (besides the bad contestants) is the judges. They are each given set roles to fit into. Simon is the bitter, mean yet truthful one. He’s also my favorite judge because he takes the competition seriously and only puts through people who are good enough to make it in the music business. Randy can only be described as a few words “Cool dog!” Because that is basically all he says throughout the whole show: “Dog, that was cool, yo. Don’t change your style, man.” Sometimes he gives good advice, but usually he’s too busy calling everyone “dog” to be of much help to anyone. Last season Paula Abdul played the role of “crazy-woman-who-has-no-idea-what-she’s-doing”. She was purely an annoyance. Whenever I watched the show with my family my dad always had a lot of things to make fun of with her there. She’s probably 5% human, 90% botox, and 5% crazy. Kara is left to play the wise one, who knows oh-so-much about the music industry. Sometimes she can pull it off. Sometimes she can’t. I’ll let you decide whether or not she is a good judge. The italicized text is what I wrote before Simon left, Kara left, Paula left, and Ellen DeGeneres came and then promptly left. Randy stayed and they added on Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler so it wouldn't become the Randy Jackson Show. At the beginning of this latest season I had a sinking feeling that the show was about to crash and burn. But the new judges actually surprised me and are doing well and are pretty funny. Some people have just stopped watching this show because they don't like the thought of new judges. That's how I thought at first too, but I think you should all give it one more chance. Even if you don't like the judges the show at the very least is entertaining. The music is usually great and it’s a lot of fun voting for who you think deserves the title of “American Idol”.

Real Teen Rating~ A - : Watch it!


Reviewed by The North Star

American Idol used to be my favorite reality show to watch… that was until this season.  When this show started out it was amazing!  There was actually a lot of talent and then this show reached its 7th season with the two David’s and went downhill from there.  The next season we gained a judge by the name of Kara Dioguardi and everyone was excited because there was going to be a new judge.  That excitement all died down when everyone realized how annoying she was and how every chance she got tried to steal Paula Abdul’s spotlight.  Luckily we had some talent on that season (Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, and Alexis Grace) but only a few people who were OK.  Then we got Season 9 and I think everyone died on the inside.  First, they got rid of Paula and replaced her with Ellen DeGeneres.  I think that Ellen is really funny but she was really awkward to watch on the show and she seemed like she didn’t belong there.  Second, no offense to the contestants but there was NO TALENT!!  After the first couple of rounds I stopped watching and I never ever do that with a show EVER!!!!  There was no point in watching this season and it became more about the judges than the contestants.  I’m done ranting and there are some good things about this show.  The concept of the show is really cool and we have gotten some impressing singers from this show (Carrie Underwood, David Cook, David Archuleta, Kelly Clarkson and Jordin Sparks).  The other great thing about this show is that it is always fun to have favorites and compete with family and friends as to who will win and whos CD you will buy once the competition is over.  All in all, this show used to be really great and one of the best but recently has gone down hill.  Hopefully Idol will be able to clean themselves up for Season 10.

This grade is based off all the seasons combined together, not just one is particular.

Real Teen Rating~ C- : If there’s nothing else on TV and you want to watch something…