AGT Catch Up

I'm a couple weeks behind on the Judge Cuts episode of AGT, so I'm going to attempt to get them watched soon. My DVR is running out of space. I lost like three episodes of Fool Us that I saved to rewatch and write about, so there's that. I'm starting this off with last week's episode of AGT, with Marlon Wayans as the guest judge.

I feel like I've done too much act by act commentary, especially since it all boils down to "They're good, but it's not my cup of tea." I think I'm just going to keep the commentary to magic and variety acts, or something that really catches my eye.

The first magic comes in at about an hour, with Dana Daniels doing a bill to egg. His act got cut up a lot, so it's really hard to get a feel for how it was going. I can see where Howard was coming from, saying that at some times it felt like he was at a kid's birthday party. I wish I could have seen his act straight through. Don't know if it would have made a difference in opinion or not, but it would have been nice.

After using the golden buzzer to put a ventriloquist through, we went to commercial and came back to Oz Pearlman. I really liked his performance. I know the part with the cutout is a marketed effect from Penguin that I can't remember the name of. I think Oz does a great job of taking small tricks and filling the performance with his personality, something that I'm working to do better myself. He is the textbook example of it's not the trick, it's the magician.

Ok, only two magic acts this week, no danger acts. It's time to start cutting.

Oz Pearlman went through, which is fantastic news! Can't disagree with that at all.

Dana didn't make it through, but a contortionist who's act I liked went through, so mixed emotions on that but I think I agree.

The Mountain Faith Band went through. They were pretty good, I suppose.

Triple Threat went through. I agree with that decision, they're very good.

Animation Crew is going forward as well. I really liked their act. Both of them, in fact. I look forward to seeing more.

And finally, a singer whose name I didn't catch. I did like the song he sang though.

Well, it's now midnight. My plan to double down on AGT tonight is not looking good. I'll pick back up again in the morning, maybe.

- Andster