Chair Episode Part 1 - As If You Didn't Already Know How It Ends

We're back in Vegas, and 42 contestants are about to become 24. Holed up at the Wynn resort, the Top 42 had to sing one song solo, backed up by a single instrument. The producers of the show could have used these performances to showcase the singers' voices, but instead, they're just going to skip to the revealing of the Top 24 and show a few seconds of each performance, along with clips of performances we already saw. So, here's my recap:

We see the journeys of each contesant from the auditions through Hollywood and Vegas as they walk up to the judges to hear their respective fates. The judges tell each person who is going through about how they had to cut a lot of great people, and that it was such a difficult decision for Nigel Ken them to make. It goes something like this:

"We hate this stage of the competition. We have to cut so many great people. More than 24 of you deserve to move on, but honey, we just can't do it for everybody...*cut to contestant crying* *cut back to judges*...but we can for you! OMG YOU MADE IT!!!!"

Rinse and repeat 23 times over the next two days. Oh yeah, and Heejun/Cowboy Rick have a final showdown. Here's how that and this entire stage of the competition ends.

And this is where my recap ends. I had already arranged to skip what I thought was going to be one chair episode, but hey, this was the exact same chair episode as last year, so fuck it. I'll be back tomorrow with an article about who I suspect will make the Top 12/13/whatever, and speculate on who our picks might be and when. See you tomorrow!