Wednesday elimination night recap:

Okay, so the person going home didn’t really surprise us Wednesday night. As much as I like Matt Giraud’s style and talent, we all knew he wasn’t destined to win it all. What made everybody’s jaw drop open was that Adam was the one standing next to Matt as part of the bottom two. It was a true Idol shocker, and it was the first time all season that Adam has found himself in that spot.

It must have been a little humbling for Adam because Ryan split the other four contestants into groups of two: Kris and Matt on one side of the stage, and Allison and Danny on the other. Ryan then told Adam to go join the group he thought he belonged with based on last night’s performances. Adam pranced over to Danny and Allison’s group. Then Ryan ushered him over to the Matt and Kris group and said that “this is your bottom three.” Yikes.

So that means Danny and Allison got the most votes Tuesday night. Allison did have an amazing performance, but I still thought she would struggle in the likeability arena. Apparently, she did not. Danny had perhaps the best performance of the night out of all five.

So Allison, Kris, Danny and Adam make up the final four. Simon calls it the most open competition he has ever seen at this point in the race.  I still think the final three will come down to Adam, Danny and Kris, but if Allison continues to peak in performance level, she might edge one of the boys out. She should have an easy time picking a song next week because the theme will be Rock n’ Roll. Stay tuned!!

Tuesday night recap:

Oh, I hope you didn’t have to miss American Idol Tuesday night because it was SO good! And I was surprised, too, because sometimes the “theme” shows that force the contestants to sing older songs can produce disastrous results. But the top 5 contestants were really on their game during “Rat Pack” week, and there wasn’t a stinker in the bunch.

Jamie Foxx was this week’s mentor, and he was really great with them and seemed to help them more than past mentors have. Even Simon mentioned that Jamie had pulled something special out of all the contestants this week and thanked him for it. Here’s how it went:

Kris Allen: He sang “The Way You Look Tonight,” and he looked and sounded great. Dressed in a suit, he stood at the microphone and really belted it out. The judges gave him rave reviews, except for Simon who says he still lacks the confidence (or cockiness) to win. But I’m betting that Kris feels pretty good. Jamie called him the “No. 1″ and said that if this Idol thing didn’t work out that maybe they should do a song together. Wow.

My only concern for Kris is that he sang first, and that position seems to hurt performers because voters forget how great you were just an hour ago. Fingers crossed.

Allison: She sang “Someone to Watch Over Me,” which was a great choice for her because she is the youngest of the bunch and still has an innocent face. She really did an amazing job with it and I thought it was her best performance to date. The judges agreed.

But she has visited the bottom three in weeks’ past, so who knows what will happen to the last girl standing.

Matt: This was really Matt’s week to shine because of the Rat Pack genre. He studied jazz in college, after all. He sang “My Funny Valentine,” and it was a solid performance with some really big notes that we don’t typically hear Matt sing. Randy was a tad iffy on it, as was Kara, but Paula loved it and Simon said it was “brilliant.”

Danny: He sang “Come Rain or Come Shine,” and he seemed to surprise everyone with a new level of confidence and showmanship this week. Last week, Simon called him awkward and clumsy, but there was none of that this week. He commanded the stage, and his vocals are always spot on. Randy loved it. Kara loved it. Paula called it “stellar,” and Simon agreed.

Right now, it looks like the final three could come down to Kris, Adam and Danny. From that point on, I think it will be an incredibly close race.

Adam: He sang “Feelin’ Good,” and he started it slow at the top of a lit staircase. When the tempo picked up, Adam swaggered down the stairs in true theatrical style, wearing a white suit, black shirt and white tie. As always, the sheer control he has over his voice is mind-blowing. I have to agree with Randy in that it was a little too theatrical and dramatic for my taste, but I’m sure Adam’s core fans LOVE that about him. Rave reviews from the judges.

Prediction for the bottom three?: I’m not even sure they’ll do a bottom three with only 5 left. I’m guessing they might just do a bottom two. If so, I’d have to pick Allison and Matt, simply because they’ve been there the most before. Can’t wait to see what happens!

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If you missed your weekly dose of desperation, here’s what happened Sunday night on Wisteria Lane:

Bree: Orson was just about to be discharged from the hospital for the bump on his head he got while trying to rob an old lady’s house. (She whacked him with a baseball bat.) But Orson told Bree and the doctor that he had fallen and hit his head on the curb while out for a midnight stroll. Bree wasn’t too happy about her clepto husband coming back home, but he promised her he had decided to be happy and put his bad behavior behind him. She decided to give him another chance as long as he promised there’d be no more lies.

But later Bree found out that her elderly neighbor had slugged an intruder stealing knick knacks with a baseball bat. She gave Orson one last chance to tell the truth and he went right on lying. Bree made up an excuse to go to Andrew’s house, and she told her son she’d be divorcing Orson.

Lynette and Gabi: Their stories were intertwined this week. Carlos and Lynette have been swamped and working long hours at work. Tom is feeling neglected and is jealous of Lynette’s time, especially when she said she spent part of that time away taking a shower at Carlos’ office bathroom. When she realized it bothered Tom, she said she wouldn’t do it again.

Then Carlos came to pick up Lynette for an early meeting and she was in her own shower and running late. She slipped and fell and didn’t answer Carlos when he asked if she was okay. He peered in her bathroom and she had knocked herself unconscious. He moved her to the bed, and she realized he had seen her naked and was embarassed. She made him promise not to tell Tom.

Meanwhile, Tom had joined Gabi’s garden club and had become chummy with the sluttiest housewife in town because she paid attention to him. Gabi warned Tom to stay away. At a double date with the two couples, the truth came out about the shower scene and Tom’s new friend and the date ended badly. Later, Gabi and Tom patched things up as friends and he confided in her that he has been feeling neglected and invisible since Lynette went back to work.

Susan: In an attempt to check on crazy Dave, Susan stopped by with sandwiches and accidentally saw a handgun lying on Dave’s duffel bag. She assumed that, since he was so depressed about Edie, that he was suicidal. She secretly took the gun, knives, belts and prescription pills from his house, just to be safe. In true Susan style, she then got pulled over by the cops for talking on a cell phone while driving and had to explain why she had a gun in her car.

She went back to apologize to Dave for stealing his things. He told her that he’d had a fight with Edie before her car crash and felt guilty. She told him about her car crash years ago (not knowing this was the crash that killed Dave’s wife and child.) She admitted that, even though they’d told the police that Mike had been driving, it was actually Susan behind the wheel. They’d lied because Susan had forgotten to take her driver’s license with her that night. Crazy Dave seemed to come alive again at the realization that he now has someone new with whom to get revenge. At the episode’s end, he made an ominous statement to Susan’s son, M.J., about being careful because his mother would be destroyed if anything happened to him.

Catherine: She told Mike that she would never lie to him because he was the one who she was going to spend the rest of her life with. You should have seen the look on Mike’s face. It was definitely a look that told us that he wasn’t so sure that she was the one he’d be spending the rest of his life with. Looks like there’s still a little room in his heart left for Susan.

Next week: Looks like we’re building up to a big season finale here, and I’m guessing there’s going to be a crisis with Crazy Dave doing something to put little M.J. in danger. You can bet this will make Susan and Mike take another look at what really matters most to both of them. In the meantime, though, it looks like Jackson the ex-boyfriend is going to be back on Wisteria Lane with flowers in hand for Susan. Stay tuned.