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The Voice's ninth season mixed up the elimination order, giving us a top 11 this week. The new format, which allows more singers more time on the show, also allows for more mediocre artists to squeak through for a lot longer. There was a lot of good here, but you had to listen to a lot of crap first to get to it. -
‘Empire’ 5 Best Moments of Episode 8: Hakeem & Freda Gatz Battle, Anika Shows Up in Wig
This week’s episode of Empire was full of tweetable punchlines as Hakeem and Freda Gatz faced off in their Lucious Lyon fueled rap battle. During episode 8, appropriately titled “My Bad Parts,” Jamal finds a happy medium between working with his parents, Anika discovers some game changing news and shows up in a wig while Cookie is hit with some unexpected family drama. We've recapped five of the best moments from the episode. -
'The Voice' Season 9 Recap, Review: Top 11 Revealed as the First Twitter Save Gives a Surprise
And, then there were 11... The Voice season 9 is now in the real thrust of its live playoffs, with this week marking the first time the finalists truly got to show who they were. And, while the performances were wide ranging in their quality on Monday night, the show's new elimination schedule made the stakes pretty low... only one person would be going home. But, who was it? -
'The Voice' Season 9 Spoilers: NBC Schedule Reveals Massive Semi-Final Cuts
The Voice is used to massive eliminations once it gets to the live shows, but it looks like season 9 is going to be particularly brutal. On Monday (Nov. 16), NBC released its schedule through Dec. 13, and in doing so, revealed the number of Voice contestants to go home each week. -
'The Voice' Season 9 Recap, Review: Live Playoffs Continue, Gwake Gets Moment on Screen
The Voice brought out its established top 12 on Monday night (Nov. 15) after a total massacre elimination last week, these 12 performances should have been turned up a notch, but what we got instead was the same sort of uneven crop we had with last week's performances. Guess we'll have to wait another few weeks for more fat to be trimmed. -
'Empire' Recap Season 2, Episode 7: Lucious Faces His Demons, Cookie Makes Up with Jamal
This week's episode of Empire was full of irony and the Lyon family walking in their truth. During episode 7 of season 2, Lucious was forced to face his demons and use his personal experiences in his music. Elsewhere, Cookie and Jamal make up. -
'The Voice' Season 9 Recap, Review: Teams Cut in Half in Brutal Elimination Results
There was a major bloodbath on The Voice on Wednesday night (Nov. 11). This week, 24 singers performed, but for week two of the live playoffs, there are only 12 performance slots. Yes, the show cut its field properly in half. Previously, letting two of five singers go was painful but not a punch to the gut. This season, with the new comeback artist twist, this is just brutal. -
'The Voice' Season 9 Recap, Review: Teams Blake and Pharrell Go Big in Live Shows 2
You know what's a very unfair setup for The Voice? The team element. On Monday night (Nov. 9), the first episode of the live shows rolled out 10 terrible performances and two good ones. This episode, which featured Blake Shelton and Pharrell's teams, had the opposite problem. Everyone showed up to the occasion. -
'The Voice' Season 9 Recap, Review: Live Shows Start with Underwhelming Turns and a Twist
So, this is the live shows on The Voice, huh? On Monday night (Nov. 9), season 9 kicked off its longest portion with Adam Levine's and Gwen Stefani's teams. And while there were little glimpses into the potential of this year's pack, overall, this was a very underwhelming evening. -
'Empire' Recap Episode 6: Hakeem Comes Home, Cookie's New Man Has a Secret
On Wednesday (Nov. 4), Empire returned to its regularly scheduled time and this week's episode certainly made up for lost time. In episode 6, Hakeem, who was kidnapped before the brief hiatus, comes home and it is revealed that Cookie's new man has a deep, dark secret. -
'The Voice' Season 9 Recap, Review: Knockout Rounds End with Big Pharrell Steal
The knockout rounds of The Voice came to a close on Monday night (Nov. 2) after just three (long) episodes. For the final episode of this installment, you would think that the show would really pull out the big guns with some of the best performances of the year. And, while everyone was solid, there was nothing that like blew my socks off. And for a year that has a decent amount of talent, that's a little odd. -
'The Voice' Season 9 Recap and Review: Knockouts Round 2 Continue to Bring Out the Best
The Voice season 9 is halfway through its knockout rounds, with shockingly amazing guest mentor Rihanna, and the contestants keep pushing themselves to new highs. On Tuesday night (Oct. 27), we got three more battles courtesy of Team Gwen Stefani, Team Adam Levine and Team Pharrell, and unlike Monday night's episode, the second installment of the knockout didn't quite include so many shocking eliminations.
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