Sometimes it pays not to have television on demand. That may have been the case Tuesday as my family enjoyed a night of sitting around the kitchen table talking and stringing shucky beans while our fellow citizens watched America’s Got Talent. According to Jaya Saxena, writing for Entertainment Weekly, “The opening 20 minutes devolved into a blur of chicken mimics, bad dancers, and even worse magicians. Maybe it was the influence of the Web, but the whole affair smacked of a bad YouTube video…”

Jaya closes the article with this insightful thought: “Isn’t it funny that two thirds of the judging panel are British on a show called America’s Got Talent?”

Mmmm…something to think about.