Dancing with the Stars Season 23, Week 6 – Dancing by the Numbers!
Another week, another bout of wackiness when it comes to judges scoring – luckily not as bad as in previous weeks. Well, perhaps I should say ‘not as widespread’ as in previous weeks because it was still pretty bad in at least one instance.
If Len had been around this week, Jana would have gotten a 7 or 8 for her Argentine Tango – I think you can count on it. He’s shown recently that he doesn’t limit that just to Derek’s partners. But he wasn’t there so the travesty of Jana getting a perfect score while the better AT is three points lower. Why? Well, I suspect that Jana has been on the bubble and the leader board this week reflects the top half (to the judges) and the bottom half…with Marilu kinda straddling the middle ground, which is quite dangerous. The judges, I think, have roughly grouped the couples in that way – with the possibility of Calvin falling out of favor and Marilu rising. I think the jury is out for them on those two couples. Everyone else is either top three or bottom three. Read more..