This year’s competition comes down to a choice between a David Brent lookalike,somebody who has made no impression whatsoever, and a novelty act gone horribly wrongTheres a kind symmetry to this weekends X Factor final. After all, and there are three acts left in the competition,and roughly three viewers in the country who’d rather watch X Factor than Antiques Roadshow.perform no mistake: this has been a dog of a series. Even by its own plummeting standards, this is the worst X Factor in living memory. Almost nothing approximately it has worked; a fact reflected by the state of its finalists. The final three contestants standing this year are a joke act gone horribly wrong, or two of the sort of blank-faced,personality-free nonentities who tend to win televised talent shows whenever the audience is too disengaged to care.
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Source: theguardian.com