Jasmine and Jorge Sent Home on American Idol
Recaps: AI: Results, The Chopping Block
American Idol sent home two performers this week, and NBC premiered thier new cooking reality show The Chopping Block, which has two teams going through the ups and downs of opening a restaurant in New York City.
American Idol: Results Show, "Two People in the Top 13 Must Go Home Tonight"
Ryan Seacrest announced that this season the judges would get one chance up until the top five to save a contestant. The decision will have to be unanimous, and while no one will go home that week, two people will go home the following week.
The contestants kicked the show off with a group performance of The Jackson 5 hits. The contestants’ first Ford commercial premiered.
Michael was safe. Allison was safe. Jasmine was brought to center stage. Matt was safe. Kris was safe. Megan moved to center stage. Seacrest moved to center stage and announced Megan was safe, meaning Jasmine would be going home unless the judges chose to save her. Seacrest had her sing “I’ll Be There” again, but the judges still decided to send her home.
Kanye West performed “Heartless.”
Scott was safe. Alexis was safe. Danny was safe. Anoop was brought to center stage. Adam was safe. Jorge was brought to center stage. Lil was safe.
Kelly Clarkson talked about her new album and sang “My Life Would Suck Without You.”
Seacrest announced that Anoop was safe, and Jorge was given one last chance to impress the judges with “Never Can Say Goodbye.” The judges decided not to save him.
The Chopping Block, "101"
NBC’s new show “The Chopping Block” has eight teams of two competing for $250,00 to open their own restaurant. The show is headed by celebrity chef Marco Pierre White, who is cool, calm and collected through much of the first episode. The teams consist of friends, cousins, siblings and couples and are split in to a red team and a black team and then given a restaurant to run. Each week a food critic reviews the restaurant, and one team is eliminated from the losing team, who is picked by the critic.
In the first episode each of the teams prepared a dish for Marco so that he could choose head chefs. Lisa was named head chef for the red team for her lamb chops, and Than was named head chef for the black team for his chicken.
At the teams’ first dinner service things didn’t run as smoothly as they could have, and the food critic had no problem telling them about it. He loved the black team’s appetizer, but their undercooked chicken was unforgiveable. And while he had nothing good to say about the red team’s dessert, he did love their salmon’s sauce. He named the red team the winner, and the black team went back to their restaurant for elimination.
Many members said to eliminate Than because he was the head chef, but Than and Khoa wanted to eliminate Angie because she was horrible in the kitchen. When Angie attacked Than for his choice, Than’s brother Zan, who was a server, fought back. Angie went off about how Zan spent too much time chatting with customers and not enough time serving them and told Zan to zip it when he tried to defend himself. Ultimately none of it mattered because Khoa and Denise, Khoa’s sister, told Marco they wanted to go home because they couldn’t take the fighting.
The show is OK but not great. The drama isn’t there and there is just not enough going on to keep your attention. The food does look delicious though.
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