AMERICAN IDOL - Bye Bye James

New judges, fresh blood, and the most talented singers in the history of the series. I called Scotty as the winner in his original audition... but weirdly enough, on Thursday night when it was between Scotty and James, I screamed "pick JAMES" at the television. Sadly, I was wrong.

James Durbin's performance on Wednesday night was definitely not his best ever. He's not the greatest singer in the competition, but honestly, neither is Scotty. James does have one thing that is missing in... and that thing is passion. And he is a DAMN good performer. The best that has ever graced the stage of IDOL.

America got it wrong, not because he should have won, but because he should have at least placed above Scotty (the guy I called to win in his first audition). Scotty's crooked smile is adorable. He's fun. He's even talented, but he's not the American Idol.

PILOT WATCH - GIRLS (HBO)

GIRLS opens on a mid-twenties girl being told that she's going to be cut off. A group of girls surviving the recession in New York City. Our hero, Aura has been interning for a whole year at a book agency, and once she gets the courage to ask her boss to be put on the payroll she gets fired. From her internship.

I am not really sure where this show is going. The pilot feels like one awkward scene built on another. Aura, has weird doggy style sex, and shows off her children's literature tattoos. Then realizes that she's late to her friends dinner party, where they talk about doing drugs. One of the girls actually says that "every time she does cocaine, she shits her pants," while they all drink opium.

Everyone can agree that Lena Durham's movie TINY FURNITURE was a lot of fun, but I have to say that this one is more than a miss. It's unfunny, with thin character development where no one is likable, all of the dialog is on the nose and quite frankly it feels like an independent movie gone horribly bad.

So it begins. HBO picked up a show because Judd Apatow was producing it. And we now have a mildly funny pilot for a show that will go to series in the Fall.

I won't be watching, because I simply don't care about the show.