Episode Report Card Joe R: B- | 25 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Don't Cry Out Loud
By Joe R | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 01.22.2007
An incredibly stupid montage of people falling asleep while they wait for a billion hours is somehow supposed to logically lead us to Amanda Coluccio and Antonella Barba, shown in gauzy, soft light, frolicking on the beach. They're best friends from New Jersey, and they won't even tell Ryan who the better singer is. BFF4EVR! They're being packaged -- and are packaging themselves -- as Idol's answer to Paris and Nicole, not like that's a ridiculously outdated notion or anything. Paris has used up and utterly ruined the lives of at least three starlets since Nicole. In reality, Antonella and Amanda are just not nearly trashy enough to qualify. They like to go to the beach and shop, and one of them says "that's hot," but there isn't really one "I'll suck your dick for some press coverage" moment in there. "Do you know what we think, can we tell you what we think?" says Amanda, and for a minute, I think we're going to get this really funny Laguna moment where the girls go all Lauren and Lo and say something really dumb and then invite Ryan to Cabo with them. But instead they just say that they want the Idol winner to be two people this year. Aw, boo! Be interesting, aside from the show!
Ryan wishes luck to "Best Friend #1" (hee) as Amanda enters the chamber of horrors. She mentions how Antonella is in the hallway, and Paula says to bring her in. "God, I bet you're popular," says Simon, the dirty old man. Randy asks Paula who's better, and Antonella says they haven't heard them sing yet. So Randy's like, "Okay, Miss Earth Logic, why don't you tell us who's better?" Antonella says "honestly" that Amanda is the one who's trained, but Amanda says they both have "different strengths." She also mentions that they sing duets, and Paula asks them to try that. They start singing...something, and it sounds awful, and Simon thankfully cuts them off quick, saying it was "a bit of a mess." He suggests they go separately. Amanda's "Crazy" (Patsy Cline, not Seal) is so borderline as to leave Simon without an opinion at all. Carole's like, "Sure, why not?" They should have had Antonella go first. Then this "join your friend in Hollywood" thing could have seemed spontaneous. Amanda exits with her golden ticket to a throng of family and Chipster dudes, and a father type in a suit, who stopped by on his lunch hour, it looks like. Meanwhile, Antonella is quite good, and compares quite favorably to her friend, in the judges' eyes. Paula tells her she should never have to downplay herself with "I'm not trained" again, because she's good. Antonella tries to convey that this wasn't Amanda at her very best, and Simon cuts her off. "Let me give you one lesson in show business: when someone's down, kick them." The judges all freak at this ghastly display of ambition, and Antonella smiles as she leaves: "Not my best friend." Simon, off-camera but clearly smiling: "Always. Always." Outside, Amanda asks if the judges said something about how they both compared, and Antonella is diplomatic, relaying Paula's comment about training without making it seem like it was slamming Amanda. Ryan tries to tell us this was "awkward," but I'm not buying it.
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