[Watch] The Voice S09E10

Entertainment Weekly: The Battles concluded tonight, and while it should have been a time for The Voice to ramp up this season’s energy, I couldn’t muster a celebratory mood (and not just because Morgan Frazier was absolutely robbed — more on that to come). Something has been weighing on my mind, dear readers, but I’ve waited until after the Battles were over to share my suspicions with you. Here they are: Team Gwen is being dealt a bad hand this year. After 10 episodes, it’s become obvious something’s up. Here’s my beef - 18 Battles were aired over the last two weeks — the other six were montaged. Of those 18 to make it to TV, six belonged to Team Adam. How many featured performances from Team Gwen? Three. Adam’s team ended up with literally twice the airtime as Gwen’s. Each hour-long episode consisted of three Battles, so that’s an entire extra episode of just Team Adam. And it gets worse. Team Adam didn’t have a single Battle montaged this entire season, while Team Gwen had three — that’s fully half of her Team that didn’t get to show America its talent. 

Shafting Team Gwen is nothing new this season. During the Blind Auditions, the pattern was the same: Team Adam had just a single audition montaged, while Team Gwen had three. (For the record, none of Team Blake’s singers were montaged during auditions. During the Battles, Team Blake got five aired performances, and Team Pharrell had four. Those are the amounts they still would have gotten were the Battles divided evenly between the four coaches.) When we add it all up, it’s impossible to ignore that Team Gwen just isn’t getting a fair deal. And on a show where contestants’ fates are eventually determined by popular vote, being seen matters. A lot.

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