Wonderful character development!

Lack of good storyline.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Honestly I am surprised with all these laughable reviews of this show because I thought this show would be rated much higher. Maybe all the reviewers were Idol rejects.But in all honesty, I think that American Idol is one of the best shows television has ever produced. It was a show that everyone could watch and enjoy and cheer and root for. It was fun, any age could join in and it was a phenomenon in its heyday and there was nothing else like it before or since in my short time on this planet.The judges were compelling. The great singers were perfectly great and the terrible singers were appropriately terrible. Ryan Seacrest was always so reliable as a host too.Yeah the show saw better days and it did get "worse" as it went on, but the core essence of the show, finding the next big superstar, was evergreen, and that's why the show is and will always be great, and besides until The Voice and other such shows it produced so many stars like Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Adam Lambert, Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken, Phillip Phillips, just to name a few.Thank you American Idol. I love you and I always will love you.

Show business is always connections comes first: it is annoying Gianna Isabella dropped her mother's name before singing at the audition. It would be DISGUSTING if she becomes the winner： Many girls on the show are way better than her.Frankly, she can sing, but anyone who has been training from childhood can sing, her voice is not unique or outstanding. if she has won this, then the show really deserves to be ended： Audience are not idiots, it would be so obviously implanting.During the David Cook season, the media exposed one of the top 24 is heavily connected to the Fox senior executive, after that, that girl was disqualified. So it is a clever strategy to show the connection with JLo in public in the very beginning to avoid the same disqualification happens. Lindita and Sara should be in top 24 instead. The only positive thing I think of Gianna is, at least she does not dress like a teenage slut.

American Idol has gotten a lot of hate since it it began. Why? What's so bad about it? It started in the early 2000s when you needed talent to make it big and your image was changed alone. It was singing talent scouts that people may never have gotten the chance to ever encounter. A time to make a dream a reality.It started off with brutally honest British judge, Simon Cowell; hip and cool former Journey drummer, Randy Jackson; and former pop diva and dancer, Paula Abdul. It was funny to see Simon trash everybody, Paula praise everybody and Randy be chilling. Ryan Seacrest has always been a great host. Superstars were made and fantastic singers emerged.But things got a turn for the worse when Paula decided to depart. Ignorant judges were coming in that shouldn't be there like Ellen Degenerous. Simon's farewell seemed to be the beginning of a new chapter. Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez joined Randy on the judging table. That was Idol's best year as there was not one bad contestant. Just as things were getting hot, the show declined to the point where I was sure it would never recover. Keith Urban, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey replaced Tyler and Lopez for the worst year. Minaj and Carey had no idea what they were doing and they ruined the show. All was saved when J-Lo returned to replace Minaj and Carey and Harry Connick Jr. replaced Randy. Now we have three talented judges that know their stuff. Idol is now the show it used to be.

I enjoyed the show in the first couple of seasons and enjoyed some of the products that came from this show. But, it is time for this show to go away. I know I have an unpopular view, but I am sick and tired of 3 days of programming being taken up for this seemingly endless parade of over inflated egos and a line up of people whom I never want to see on TV ever again. Not to mention the relentless beating of the dead horse with Idol Rewind and the hours spent on showcasing the worst of the worst in American Karaoke. There has to be a better way for these kids to be discovered and/or rejected than taking up our time and patience. Please go quietly into that good night and don't look back. I think the American public is ready for scripted dramas and comedies again.