Dale Roe writes about television for the Austin American-Statesman.
He's worked at the American-Statesman for 10 years and has written family movie and video game reviews as well as watched lots of TV. Dale directs, writes and performs with Austin's Gag Reflex comedy ensemble, is a freelance illustrator and has contributed stories and reviews to Macworld magazine. He lives in Round Rock with his wife, two children and a dog named Apollo who barks whenever he hears another dog bark on television.
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By Dale Roe
| Thursday, May 6, 2010, 11:31 AM
Boy, “Idol” was some bizarre, mixed-up deal this week.
Aaron Kelly and Mike Lynch — who turned in two of the best vocal performances out of the remaining five contestants — got the least votes from America. Meanwhile, Lee DeWyze skated through on the strength of his swagger and the appealingly smokey tone of his occasionally off-key voice. He was joined by still-frontrunner Crystal Bowersox (no matter what the judges say) who turned in a pleasant and pitch-perfect, if uninspired effort Tuesday night and Casey James, who — clearly out of his bluesy element (and sans guitar) — turned in the evening’s worst performance.
In the end, Kelly, the lone remaining teenybopper hopeful, was sent packing. He didn’t last as long as season 7 doppelganger David Archuleta, but he made it to the Top 5 and that’s nothing to sneeze at (unless you’re sinus-challenged Archuleta).
We also got performances from Lady Gaga and this week’s mentor Harry Connick Jr. and another lame Ford “video” in which DeWyze passed up a romantic moment with Bowersox in favor of a romantic moment with a Ford. The last 5 minutes of the video were Bowersox’s complaints to the judges about why DeWyze should have picked her.
I keed.
Next week comedian actor singer Jamie Foxx schools the final four in movie songs. I wish it were James Bond movie songs — I would love to hear Siobhan Magnus belt “Live and Let Die.” Oh, wait, Siobhan was already sent home.
Maybe that’s why this week was so boring.
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