The Voice returned on Monday night with its first at-home playoffs in the show's history, and it wasa bit eerie to see Carson Daly and his skeleton crew in the otherwise emptied-out studio throughout the show.
All four coaches and even an audience used video conferencing to watch the contestants' prerecorded performances, and though this was a new system for everyone involved, the night still mostly went smoothly — in fact, there were some contestants who seemed to really thrive with this new normal.
The show started with mega mentor James Taylor leading the contestants in a virtual chorus of his highly relevant favorite "Shower the People." Daly then checked in with coaches Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, and Nick Jonas to