AGT Season 11 Live Shows Week 1

Here is my take on tonight's acts. From BEST to WORST 


1: Deadly Games (Danger Act) 
I do love acts that keep me on the edge of my seat. And this act did not disappoint. I thought the fire bit was tamer than the blindfolded bit, so they should have performed them the other way around, but it was all entertaining nevertheless. 


2:Tape Face (Weirdo) 
I know some people won't get his act, but he like Tim Burton meets Emo Philips. He's a creepy guy with odd gags and you don't know what the punchline is going to be. 


3: Hara (Illusionist) 
Adding magic to the Computerized Background Interaction Act is a welcome change, but doing the same generic magic is tedious. He only made number 3 because every one else was a lot worse. 


4: Laura Bretan (Opera Singer) 
She's got some pipes, I'll give her that. But there's only so many times where I will allow myself to be wowed by opera singers. And with AGT, we see the full effect of diminishing returns. 


5: Jayna Brown (Singer) 
Like Laura, she's got a nice voice, but singers on AGT hardly ever bring anything new to the singing pool. 


6: John Dorenbos (Magician) 
We've seen this before. Magic Person has judges write or draw something. Backstage, somebody sees what they did and copies it. Then, they act as a stagehand to give the Magic Person a prop. Said prop has the prestige in it. He did try to pretty it up with the guessing of who drew what, but that was cold reading at its most obvious. 


7: Sila Sveta (Computerized Background Interaction Act) 
Okay, doing it in a cube was a step in the right direction, but it was still boring as hell. 


8: Daniel Joyner (Singer) 
Wrong song choice. I mean really, some church boy is going to sing Queen? That's like getting a 52 year old strict math teacher to play Grand Theft Auto. They don't mesh at all. 


9: Lauri Mae Hernandez (Comedian) 
She's a tween and she doesn't like Trump. That has been the entire premise of her act. A vacuum has more substance than her act. 


10: Musicality (Choir) 
Oooh boy, where they off tonight. Not a one of them sounded in key. But: A group of inner city kids band together under the guidance of a caring teacher to learn how to silence violence with music. And one of them has a sister that just got killed. I smell movie! Starring Adam Sandler in an Oscar worthy turn as the teacher. 


11: Outlawz (Dancers) 
As soon as they came out in their Ghostbusters2016 inspired outfits, I knew this was going to suck. And suck it did! Let's just go ahead and talk about the elephant in the room: the fat one in the group. Look at how he tried to do that forward leaning move. He is definitely holding back any potential they might have, and they don't have very much to begin with. 


12: Dorothy Williams (Dancer) 
There is only chaos and madness in this world. We have learned to cope, by trying to find meaning and purpose. These are things we need to keep ourselves sane. Because once you start thinking about the true meaning to all this, you may start to go mad. And the true meaning is: there is no true meaning. Randomness is our master. Chaos is our one true god. But we have to find patterns in the discord to let us think we have some control. Even if the patterns aren't really there. But sometimes, sometimes, we see something or experience something that makes us lose our grip on our delicate "reality." Something that reminds us we are not in control. We are victims to the chaos. We are powerless. 

And one of those things is Dorothy Williams dancing.