‘Idol’ time: Watching the season finale

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As a time-saving device better than TiVo, I have a habit of tuning in only for the very last episode of any major reality show. (It’s amazing to me how you can follow an entire series without ever actually watching it—just through media osmosis.) So it was that I watched American Idol last night to see who would win, Bo or Carrie. As I guess I expected, the show managed, in two hours, to be almost as excruciatingly full of time-filling devices as the three-hour finale of season two of The Apprentice.

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