The talent makes the show and the judging almost kills it. Seems like they cannot keep a slate of celebrity judges that can keep their PC biases out of their decisions. Judge Cuts get worse every year as they seem to have a quota of acts from different genres. Not too many singers, The obligatory foreign or ghetto dance groups, the magicians, the borderline comics, and on and on.The talent makes the show and the judging almost kills it. Seems like they cannot keep a slate of celebrity judges that can keep their PC biases out of their decisions. Judge Cuts get worse every year as they seem to have a quota of acts from different genres. Not too many singers, The obligatory foreign or ghetto dance groups, the magicians, the borderline comics, and on and on. Invariably a half dozen horrible acts make the live shows while other more deserving acts are sent packing. No more judge cuts. Let the audience decide who should go to the live shows! Some thought should be given to getting rid of golden buzzers and letting the audience vote on who goes through.
Show us the talent and not the embellished sob stories. If the talent is good, that’s all that matters.
In the live shows, it seems the production staff influences song choices, choreography, and other creative decisions to the detriment of the talent. They should only advise, but stop making choices for the talent. Too often an act gets dinged in the live shows and it is obvious they followed some really bad advice from the show staff!
The other problem with this show are the technical difficulties. For the TV audience, the sound mix typically obliterates the vocals (accompaniment covers) and the massive lighting effects make actually watching the talent impossible.
Like the talent, hate the judging and the technical snafus.… Expand