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Posted Oct 1st 2008 12:05AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews
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S07E05) It's time for the second week eliminations. The early week eliminations are always interesting times because, more often than not, the results are a little screwy. I'm reminded of past seasons that saw Jerry Springer, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Master P, to name a few, all hanging on far longer than their dancing abilities warranted. Would we see something similar tonight? The results, and a quick rundown of the results show performances, are after the jump.
Continue reading Dancing With The Stars: Week 2 Results
Posted Aug 9th 2007 4:40AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E20) Holy smokes. Call me crazy if you don't agree, but I'm calling this the best episode of the season. There hasn't been a standout number one performance every week, but there has always been something that didn't quite work, or didn't quite measure up to the rest. I didn't find that here.
It would seem that the talk about the choreographers stepping things up wasn't just talk as all of them delivered great routines for the dancers to perform. The criticisms were few and far between this week, from me, and from the judges. That would be Nigel and Mary as usual, joined this week by Debbie Allen. After the jump, we'll get to all of the performances, and a rant about Fox scheduling.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 8
Posted Aug 3rd 2007 4:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E19) The show kicked off with what I am calling the Broadway
Matrix, starring Lauren as Trinity. It was a fun number, set to "Get Up" by Ciarra. I thought that giving Lauren the lead role might have been a bad omen for what was to come for her when we got to the results. There was plenty of other
filler stuff to get to before we would find that out though.
First, Cat had a little chat with the judges about dance as a career. Nigel expounded on why it is so difficult, comparing it to being a professional athlete because the career is so short. He noted that the whole time someone is trying to get work as a professional dancer they have to be mindful of what they will be doing in the future. Adam added that the reason that people go through all of the struggles is because it is so full of joy. Mary was asked whether or not a girl can win the competition this year and she responded, "Absolutely a girl could win." I agree with that.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 7 Results
Posted Aug 2nd 2007 4:15AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E18) Holy smokes. Episode 18 already? Our summer, and the
SYTYCD competition, is flying by. As Cat pointed out in the intro, we're only two weeks away from crowning the season three champ. The everybody dances the same solo format from last week was out the window, which I think was for the best. You can have too much of a good thing. There was also a welcome absence of political commentary, as I think that really took away from what the show is about last week. That doesn't mean that there wasn't controversy though, but we'll get to that later. More about all of the performances, after the jump.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 7
Posted Jun 29th 2007 5:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E11) After a crazy performance show it was only natural to expect that anything could happen on elimination night. Things started out normally enough with a group performance to "The Lion's Hunt" from the
Lion King soundtrack, choreographed by Tyce Diorio.
It was not my favorite of the group performances, but it was fun. The thing I found interesting was that, like last week, this one also ended with the focus on Sabra. I'm taking that as a subliminal message for people to vote for her. She's quickly becoming my favorite in the competition.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 3 Results
Posted Jun 28th 2007 4:16AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E10)
So You Think You Can Dance, come for the dancing, stay for the drama... One of the things I really like about the show is that they stay pretty heavily focused on the competition. Sure, we get the sometimes useless backstage bits, but they have to fill out the two hours of their summer hit somehow. For the most part though, they do steer clear of the theatrics and keep the actual dancing in the spotlight. That broke down a little tonight, though maybe not as much as it could have. More on that later.
First, look over there, it's dance legend (we can call her a legend, right?) Debbie Allen sitting in as guest judge. I had heard that she was going to be making an appearance and have been looking forward to it. She didn't disappoint either. Throughout the show she was a lot of fun. Nigel and Mary were, of course, along for the ride. So, with the introduction out of the way, on to the performances... and the drama.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 3
Posted Jun 15th 2007 7:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E07) With their results show, I think
So You Think You Can Dance has more in common with
Dancing With The Stars than
American Idol. I've always found the
Idol results show to be a little tedious. Both of the dancing shows add a lot of value to the shows with the amount of performance that they put into them. The group dance put together by Wade Robson that kicked off the show was another great example of that. It was a very fun performance to a great song, "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" by Busta Rhymes.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Week 1 Results
Posted Jun 8th 2007 8:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S01E05) I have to say, I'm glad to be done with the qualification episodes. The show is always best when it gets into the competition round anyway, but these last couple episodes have just been very poorly produced. It's hard to argue for or against any of the judges decisions about who is in, and who is out, because we have seen so little of the actual performances.
Getting the final fifty contestants down to the top twenty followed along those same lines. It was an hour spent trying to create suspense that mostly fell flat. It's a little difficult being concerned whether or not someone is moving on when we haven't even been introduced to them. And since they refuse to put names on the screen, we aren't even sure who some of them are anyway.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: The Top 20 - VIDEO
Posted Jun 7th 2007 7:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S01E04) After the three audition episodes that seemed to plod along, spending so much time on interviews and back stories, this episode just felt odd. It was as if they stuffed two hours of show in a one hour bag. Dancers just appeared on screen with no names or introduction, whether we had seen them before or not.
It was also hard to get any idea about the judges decisions. For so many of the contestants we were only shown small fractions of their performance. Between this and the 'new format every week!'
On The Lot debacle, I'm left wondering if everyone in the Fox reality department has just closed up shop for the summer. It's all very strange. But there were auditions, so after the jump a look at a few of the stories that stood out in Vegas.
Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: Vegas
Posted May 25th 2007 4:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Episode Reviews
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S03E01) If the May sweeps are over and a new
American Idol has been crowned, it must mean it's time for another season of
So You Think You Can Dance. Given its heritage, I usually think of the show as
American Idol's younger sibling. It is never going to get
Idol numbers, but it works hard to try and live up to the example that its big brother has set. The show also gains a lot in being able to build on what is already a successful format.
Unfortunately, the show also suffers from some of the problems that
Idol has, as was evidenced in this first episode of season three. The
Idol audition episodes always make me wonder if people really do tune in to see the horrible performers. Would the ratings be any less if the focus was switched more to the people with an actual shot in the competition? Or perhaps, would they possibly be even better? After the New York auditions, I'm left wondering that same things about
SYTYCD.Continue reading So You Think You Can Dance: New York Auditions (season premiere)
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