Dancing with the Stars Season 26, Week 3 – LIVE BLOG (SPOILERS)
Well, we’ll just see how much our “mentors” really contribute – or if they just waste time. 😀
T-minus 15 minutes….
Nice seeing a full out pro dance again on this show. Sorely missed. Although nothing will ever top Derek and Amber’s use of that song. 🙂 I think this was pre-taped thanks to that hard cut to the David Ross section. No biggie, but kinda obvious.
I’m sorry, but a triple elimination is just ridiculous. Why not have fewer couples from the get go??
Mirai up first with her quickstep. Her MVP is her mom. Where does the mentor come in? During the dance off?
I think that was longer than 10 bars, Alan. Did I look up in time to see a tiny stumble. She is an excellent dancer, though. Good choreo, although Alan was almost dragging her in one little section. Love the dress too.
Okay, Len, not just me then. She’s miles ahead of the rest though. Curious to see if they low ball her like other first dancers. Bruno also mentions her top line. STFU CAI. :::rolls eyes::: Other than the japanese I agree with her – IMO, always a bad idea to put a relative novice out there with the troupe.
Can we move on from this awkward and silly conversation??
She gets a 35 which is not what I would call a low balling. She will likely be safe with those scores unless someone blows it…or is killing it in the votes.
Nice little bumper with Meryl, Alan and Jenna – that one lift with Jenna was amazing.
Jennie up next – her MVP? Her husband. I confess, her hubbub about her music last week has colored my opinion of her and not in a good way.
Pretty dress!! Seemed like the V. Waltz took a while to get moving – too stationary. She’s smoother than she was last week…most of the time. Dance felt very short. Maybe because of the walking at the beginning?? I dunno.
Len wants more fluidity, but he liked parts of it. And yep – only four bars in hold. Not enough. Bruno talks about trusting her partner and says she’s more relaxed. Also comments about the arms. CAI likes her joy.
So…poll. Did CAI just blow it and reveal that Jennie is going home? I tend to think not, but she made such a big deal of her comment that I have to wonder.
Jennie gets a 29 which likely seals her fate. We’ll see.
Seems like Nastia’s bumper had a lot more content…although the camera work was totally shitty.
Chris up next with his foxtrot!! He’s looking cute as ever. 🙂 His MVP is his mom…and she’s a super fan!! Tom luges to work. LOL. Awww…Chris dancing with his mom. :::sniff:::
That was a really good dance! He was a bit hunched in spots, but the choreo served him very well. Good job, Witney. Bruno loved it – not perfect, but good as an interpretation. Shades of Bindi’s Grace Kelly dance there with the hats.
CAI thought he was uncomfortable in the beginning – I don’t disagree. Oh. My. God. “beautiful balls to the wall” – this is a family show. Great line by Tom – stop digging indeed. CAI and her f@#king calling a catch a lift. Jesus. Len not a fan of the solo bit – too wooden. Entertaining though.
Do we get a Tuesday night show for the finale??
Chris gets a 33!! Don’t know that that will save him, but you never know!
Tonya up next after a….strange Von bumper. No time to practice?? Tonya’s MVP is her dad, who she lost 9 years ago. 🙁 Yeah, I feel ya. You miss your dad forever.
I think she might be killing the rumba movement, although the song is doing her NO favors. She’s quite graceful. Is CAI going to call a lift? Strange bit there at the end with the walking…did something malfunction or something? That was a weird choice.
CAI calls her authentic, I agree. David calls her inspiring. Len likes the light and shade (his thing), wanted more hip action, but loved it other than that. Bruno likes it as well, says her lines are better.
Tonya gets a 33 – tied with Chris and I think she beats him. I could be wrong. There are two big dancers left – one might just get a perfect score. If Josh scores well, I think he’ll get a spot.
Adam next with his contemporary – his MVP is his mom. Single mom with 6 kids?!?! Holy hell, that poor woman. And very supportive when he came out.
Jenna is the best contemporary choreographer left on the show, IMO. And they’re killing it. The side by side outside the cage was nearly perfect, just one off move. Very well done. Excellent. Except that catch with the stiff legs – every contemporary dance uses that anymore.
David’s favorite dance of the night. Len is going to nitpick that it’s “stop-start” – which is actually part of contemporary in general. But he calls it the best dance of the night. Bruno raves, and notes how in tune they are. I would agree with that. CAI loved the choreo and said it was hard, but said Jenna was wobbling a bit. But she raves and calls it perfection. Can both things be true??
Bet they get a 39 with Len giving a 9.
LOL – Adam is thankful he’s a beautiful cryer. Hilarious.
Aaannddd…. I called it. 39 out of 40 for Adam. If he doesn’t make the final it would be the biggest shock ever.
Numbers!
At this moment, Jennie needs well more than 23k to get past Tonya or Chris. I don’t see that happening, particularly since she would have to beat three people. She has to get more than 35k to get past Mirai and no way is that happening.
Chris and Tonya only need 11k to beat Mirai at this moment. Tonya could get ONE more vote than Chris and beat Mirai – with Jennie not beating her, that would put her in the finale. But there’s more dancing to be done.
Nice little pro dance with Gleb, Emma, Lindsay and Artem!!
Josh is up next. Agreed with Sharna that the 7s were too harsh. His brothers are his MVPs. I think Josh is HOT with that hair. And the brothers are hilarious.
Sharna looks stunning as usual. But she’s not a contemporary choreographer in the way that Jenna is. You can see ballroom in all her dances. And she’s relying a bit too much on lifts and tricks. As you can tell, I was not a fan of the choreo, but it was well danced. I think Josh did a good job with what Sharna gave him. I only saw one little misstep.
Len was concerned he was going after Adam. But he’s raving about it, but looked like he was going to complain and then stopped himself. Weird. Bruno loves it, talks about impressive lifts. CAI agrees with Len, talks about sure-footedness. David says “smooth”.
He gets a 36 out of 40…that’s fair, I think.
Numbers
The addition of Josh’s scores means Jennie needs nearly 20k to get past either Chris or Tonya, and that Chris and Tonya need nearly 10k to get past Mirai. Mirai is currently in third place and she needs to hope like hell that neither Chris nor Tonya win their dance off or that she’s getting a ton of votes. This could get interesting.
Chris and Tonya only need 10k to beat Mirai and 15k to beat Josh. The dance offs could change everything, of course – probably knocking Chris out of it…and maybe Mirai. We’ll see.
Here we go!! Jennie versus Tonya. If Tonya wins, this could get interesting. If Jennie wins, she probably still goes home.
Nastia is their mentor and notes that the judges will be looking for improvement with Jennie. Nastia talks about redemption – and does give Tonya some good critique.
Jennie starting with more content, but Tonya actually looks like she’s better at it and more comfortable. And Sasha is bringing out serious Cha Cha late in the dance. Good move. I would give it to Tonya just for having fun and more grove. Confession – I didn’t watch the meter.
Len thinks this is difficult. Bruno said they both had the right feel. CAI thinks both were fantastic, said they were well matched. She points out issues with both of them, IMO accurately for a change. David also says it’s difficult.
Winner is: Tonya and Sasha. And that will kick Jennie out, even though she wins the viewer vote with 60%
Tonya is now tied with Mirai. If Mirai loses the dance off, it will be interesting. More interesting will be what the judges do – do they want Mirai to stay, so she wins, giving her a cushion while probably not hurting Adam at all?? Very possibly.
Mirai versus Adam up next with Meryl as their mentor. Meryl doing pretty well in terms of mentoring.
Jenna and Adam are perfectly in sync once again – I think their partnership gives them a leg up. And the splits were killer. Just seemed like a harder routine. And they nailed it. I’d give it to Adam. Mirai did very well, for sure. But I love Adam.
I bet they give it to Mirai just to try to ensure she advances.
Winner is: It’s a tie, so it goes to America – and they give it to Adam with 64%.
Shit just got real for Mirai. Dunno what’s going to happen there.
Numbers
If Chris wins there will be a three way tie for third place at 35 – Chris, Mirai and Tonya, at which point Chris could advance. If Josh wins, it likely comes down to Mirai and Tonya – which of them gets the one more point than the other to advance, assuming that Jennie and Chris can’t cover the spread. If Chris loses, he needs 10k to catch Tonya and Mirai, while Jennie would need 28k to catch either Tonya or Mirai. Let’s see….
Chris versus Josh – here we go!! With their mentor Von.
Chris has a hairier chest. LOL. Von couldn’t even be there?? Dude.
I can’t imagine Chris beating Josh (the better dancer) in a Salsa.
Both couples start off with the same move. Chris pulls out his chest first. Sharna’s tricks are executed much better. But it seems like Witney might have more content. And Josh wins it on the ending move. No contest, IMO.
This show is going to run long again. Come on, people. This is why we have a dress run.
Judges are calling it difficult. Um, that’s polite. Chris did fine, but I don’t think he can beat Josh. BRUNO, this show is going to run long and that pisses me off.
Winner is: A freakin’ tie??? Nope, David wrote down Josh and Sharna. Public gave it to Chris and Witney. That was almost a massive cluster f@#k. That could have changed the outcome, dumb asses.
Two couples separated by less than one percent. Yikes.
First Finalist – Adam and Jenna.
Second Finalist – Tonya!! Uh oh. That one percent is going to hurt.
Third Finalist – Josh and Sharna. Wow. Called that one right.
I kinda love yet wanted more from that opening number. These celebs can dance really well. Why not make them go all out? Nastia and Meryl look amazing. So that’s always great. David is always a welcome sight….I love his energy and whole vibe. Anyways, mirai owned that dance. I finally figured out what always strikes me as simething really cool about Alan. He is kinda quiet and then he dances and it’s like a switch is flipped on. I loved this dance and would give it a 10.
Not gonna lie-Mirai’s package-hands down made me teary-nice tribute to her mom and she seemed very endearing and authentic….The girl can dance! She did seem to lose her balance a tad bit but she can dance and I, personally, think she and Alan look great together!
Whoa did she just make that comment about her competitors?!😂😂😂 Damn….
Aww. Mirai’s parents are awesome and I want to eat in their restaurant!
I found the four pro women dancing along with Mirai and Alan to be distracting. They just all blended into a gold, sparklingly dance blob. They just weren’t needed.
Someone needs to school Mirai on the proper use of shade. Maybe she should watch Paris Is Burning.
Mirai’s story about her mom was so sweet. Her quickstep was really good– agreed with the judges scores. Erin was really awkward during their interview and didn’t get the whole “shade” thing. Anyway, lookin forward to Meryl dancing!
Random but the more abc show the commercial for the bachelorette the more I think “she is going to be very very brutal at eliminations.” She seems like the most normal bachelorette so far. But back to dwts. Meryl still has it. Killing it. As for Jennie, after last week I’m a bit less starry eyed about her to Be honest so this week needed to be something extra special for me to go “wow”. This dance wasn’t that. It was good but honestly
If she was on a longer season/regular season I don’t think she wouldn’t have lasted too long. It was a cute dance but she isn’t as memorable as the others. Don’t get me wrong, this is Keo’s best stuff since Jodie and I think the season where he really has had the chance to show off what he can do but I’d give that dance an 8.
Loved Mirai’s dance and package! Fun choreo and she did a great job. I didn’t notice the supposed stumble but perhpas I’m just a bad judge of Quicksteps since I didn’t see Tonya’s in hers last week either. XD
I see-so MVP can be anybody in their life-stupid me I initially was assuming it was supposed to be someone sports related-until I saw Mirai picked her mom and now Jennie picked her husband
David is sweet with his critique lol CAI is right-Jennie might’ve benefited from a longer season
I loved that dance!!! Broadway foxtrot at its best!! His mom as a participant was stellar! CAI is an embarrassment!!! 😱
Oh I am so thankful for Miss Heidi’s Live Blog especially when I’m late getting home from camping. EEek!!!
That dance sequence set on top of the piano was outstanding! I love showbizzy, old Hollywood type Foxtrots, so this was right up my alley. Chris has such a fun mom! Glad she got to live her DWTS fan dream.
Loved Witney and Chris’s song, dance and old Hollywood glamour outfits! And Chris’s mom, precious. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Chris may not be the most polished dancer but his personality is so infectious.
Mirai looks stunning in that dress and hair style. Beautiful dancer and so graceful. Her Mom was adorable and weepy too. Ha! Another genetic match.
Love chris and witney this week. I’d easily give that an 8. It was just fun from start to finish and I am in awe that this is just his third indivual dance. He is a natural entertainer.
Loved Tonya and Sasha! Emotional and so beautiful!! Her Dad would be so proud! #ImInHerCorner
What kind of mentor is Von Miller going to be? Didn’t he have a farting and a lateness problem when he was on the show? As much as he was a nice guy, he was like the biggest goof lol
WOW on the plus side, I must say that was a lovely rumba by Tonya-I think she could’ve shown a little more hip action but she nailed the rumba steps 👍🏼👍🏼
Oh, Mirai. Girl just can’t talk smack, it always goes wrong when she tries. Did you see her tweet re Adam, followed by one noting her typo in her attempt to send him an “intimidating” tweet? Pretty funny. She should give up that game, tho, at least in public. She’s a beautiful performer.
Jennie – even Carrie Ann can’t miss that Jennie isn’t doing as well as the others.
Chris – he’s a charmer. Found out this week that he’s part of Classroom Champs! (Sports champs team up with students for motivation & inspiration, via technology. (Meryl & Charlie are participants, too.). Like him more & more all the time. Including his mom in his dance is just so sweet.
I loved tonya and Sasha yet I wished there was more at the same time. I’d give than 8. Von and witney and sharna….he seemed nervous.
I’m not gonna lie, I was crying from Tonya’s package through the judges comments. There’s just something about a daughter losing her dad, you feel like you don’t have your most important defender in your corner anymore. It hurts.
Anyway, it was a lovely and moving Rumba. Sasha is worth his weight in gold as a pro. He always seems to know what to do to present his partner in the best way possible.
Wow. I’m speechless. Adam and Jenna were just stunning. Emmy material imo!
I didn’t love Adam and Jenna’s dance. I’d give it a 8 to be honest. Just didn’t connect with me
Jeez Len with his complaints lol-dance looks spiky but it’s the best dance of the night 😂
That routine looked straight out of a SYTYCD playbook-if she choreographed it herself, and she just might have, kudos to her cause her training from that show has come in handy….
But did it look like Adam was dancing with someone else in his package? A different girl? Or was it just me?🤨
I loved the sharp, sudden movements in Jenna and Adam’s dance. It was very evocative of birds. Really lovely and interesting choreography by Jenna, performed with style and emotion by Adam.
I think josh is incredible but I wasn’t not feeling this dance. Maybe just me? I’m usually all for the contemporary dances but tonight….I didn’t love them. I think josh was better than Adam though in the battle of the contemporary routines. I’d give it a 8 though.
Josh and Sharna are still my fave. So beautiful and magical!!
Len loves traditional contemporary clearly LOL
It was beautiful and I must say, for a football player, Josh really was into the dance with Sharna-was it as creative and different as Jenna and Adam? No but it was a beautiful dance nonetheless!
This is not a diss on Sharna’s contemporary choreography at all, but you can clearly see the difference when one pro is cross-trained and has experience dancing contemporary on a pretty regular basis and the other pro doesn’t.
It was a lovely dance, but it lacked the push/pull, dynamic, occasionally quirky/odd movements that modern/contemporary has.
Maybe TPTB should invest in contemporary/jazz choreography workshops for their pros.
I liked that Josh choose his brothers as his MVP’s. That’s really sweet.
Loved the birdcage concept and dance for Adam. It was a cool dance. I did like Josh and Sharna’s contemporary a little better.
Tonya is my favorite again. I love the emotion, the story. She’s relatable and self-deprecating too. I saw Tonya and Sasha on one of the entertainment shows and the female hosts asked her if her body had changed since doing DWTS. Tonya said yes, she had lost so much fat already that she wasn’t shaped like a keg anymore. Ha!
That cha cha dance off….I think both were not great but tonya by a hair wins that for me. Jennie still looked norm into the cha cha like she didn’t last week. I guess a case of great ballroom
But not so good Latin?
Saw some basic Cha Cha steps, turn patterns-I think Jennie might’ve been more nervous than Tonya under pressure….
I, personally, think there’s a difference between a dance off in week 3 vs like week 8? I think we’ve seen better quality dancing from couples, even in a dance off, when we’ve had a full season-just my opinion.
Tonya and Sasha seemed like they were dancing more in the pocket than Jennie and Keo. Plus, Keo did at least one “Look at me!” move while his partner stood still.
Glad T&S won that round.
Meryl….she was actually pretty helpful it seems so that was a shock. Wasn’t expecting that….nastia yes but her too….wow. As for the battle itself I wouldn’t have to second guess my pick at all: Adam. Easily Adam. He had more fun with it. Mirai did great too though
Jennie/Keo vs Tonya/Sasha: Clearly Tonya. I don’t know what the public was thinking. She just seemed more into it.
Adam/Jenna vs Mirai/Alan: God, this is hard..I have no idea who is going to win this one.
Honestly Adam doesn’t need the extra points. If this makes her go home I’ll be so pissed.
That was a great matchup.
I give Adam and Jenna the win. His footwork, kicks and flicks and the speed and precision between transitions was better.
But really, we the audience wins because that was a fantastic dance off.
Meryl gave some really good criticism especially to Mirai-especially about being perfect LOL
The judges are being pretty PC about their comments for both Adam and Mirai-it’s like everybody is afraid to say ANYTHING negative about Mirai-God forbid she burst into tears LOL
I thought Adam and Jenna did do a better jive in terms of showmanship but Alan and Mirai’s jive had more steps-both couples did a great job!
Also, my Meryl hair envy has returned with a vengeance. That girl has beautiful hair.
Tonya by a hair over Jennie in the dance off.
Adam over Mirai. Oh Mirai! Girl doesn’t realize maybe that most viewers don’t about this shade rivalry she has with Adam. For those who don’t know them she just looks like she has foot in mouth disease and keeps stepping in it. More so because Josh isn’t playing along as hard. Definitely think it hurts her chances of winning. Which is fine with me if it pushes Tonya up. I’d be surprised at this point if Tonya doesn’t make the finals and if she does, now I see her with a real chance of winning.
Josh vs Chris…again, I don’t know. Josh is the better dancer, definitely, but there’s something about Chris that I prefer.
I don’t think Mirai realizes that when she tries to “throw shade”…it’s just awkward.
Ok no offense but Von is a waste of a mentor for me and honestly that was a waste of a salsa battle for me LOL Besides seeing nothing but eye candy, I didn’t see much salsa….😂😂😂
Chris and josh had the best dance off. That was just so close! I’d have to flip a coin to decide the winner. Wow! Wow! Wow! Also, Von was useless as a mentor. Is he super busy lately? Only thing I can think of. Ironically, Len says he isn’t in love with shirts off. Yet doesn’t say that to val and maks who use that trick pretty often in regular seasons. Ok then.
I still feel marginally confused by the condensed season. However, I do think out of all of the seasons where they’ve done this ‘dance battle’ thing. This was truly the most well matched heats.
I love both couples and could watch them Salsa for days, but Josh and Sharna were HOT!
Miss Heidi nailed it again about who would be in the finals. Well done, Heidi!!! woo hoooo
Whattt?! How did Mirai not make top three? Her and Adam i thought were givens to be top 3. With I hoped Sharna and Josh (which is true). Chris/Whitney were my 4th. But Tonya in the finals? Really.
I’ll admit Tonya can dance alright, but there’s a stigma to her that I can’t get past.
I thought Mirai was going to make it over Tonya for sure.
Nah, head to head I was def thinking Tonya could make it. She only needed one vote and she probably didn’t get much more than that, judging by Tom’s comments about the voting.
Love Josh and Chris so much. Hilarious! Hate having them go against each other since I would love to see both in the finals. At least the judges picked one and the voter picked the other.
Final 3: TONYA!!!! & Josh!!! Awesome. Such a fantastic surprise. So glad Josh made it. All my votes, phone and online, went to Tonya so I’m voting for Tonya to win the whole thing next week.
Adam I expected. So happy for him. But now that he’s up against Josh and Tonya, I’m thinking Adam isn’t a sure thing anymore.
GO TONYA! Can’t wait to see Sasha’s freestyle finale dance.
Yep Mirai is out-can’t say I’m surprised all that much:/ Would’ve been nice to see her dance in next week’s finale though….
I have a distinct feeling that we already know the winner of this very short season-at least, for me lol
Word, Susan2 – but any of these pros can work on getting cross trained if they want to and recognize the need for it. Jenna, Witney and Lindsay have it (and Hayley is training in ballroom), but some of these pros don’t seem to feel like they need it.
And sorry, Anon, I hope you weren’t saying that Josh and Sharna had the traditional contemporary, because that was more like contemproom. Or Ballorary. 🙂
Again, these couples deserve a full season. I feel like we’re just getting to know them and then BAM, finale time.
Yeah for Tonya and Sasha! They’re one of the couples I wanted to see move through a regular season. I need more time with some of these couples! Sasha is such a thoughtful and respectful partner. Great partnership casting with them.
I also really like Sharna and Josh. Her surprised reaction upon making it into the finale was cute.
For me, this is Jenna and Adam’s to lose. They have charisma, mad skills and momentum. I’m really looking forward to seeing what they can do with the Freestyle.
Also, thank you again Heidi for doing the live blog. I raise my rum and coke to you and say in my best Patsy Stone voice, cheers and thanks a lot!
Love love love the fact that we are getting a Sasha freestyle! Tonya must be on cloud nine. Her life and popularity has turned around big time this year. I wasn’t thrilling on her on the show at first but she grew on me. I’m a fan now. Sharna is in the finals again and she kills the freestyles so I’m expecting a lot. Jenna is going to be really fun with anfreearyle I think. As for the ones going home tonight, I liked them all. Chris was a blast. Mirai….rubbed viewers the wrong way? This reminded me of Simone and Sasha in a way. And Jennie….well I guess keo has the juice to get someone far (he did with jodie but I never thought I’d see that again) so this was a good season for him. I’m left with less stars in my eyes regarding her though
Ha! Ha! Contemproom or Ballorary!! I luv it!!
Now that Mirai has been eliminated, Adam is clearly the best dancer. I don’t know if his win is guaranteed though. If Josh takes it I’ll be upset because I really love Adam, but if Tonya wins I will be flabbergasted (in the WORST WAY) I just hope that all of Mirai’s fans vote for Adam.
Thank you, PHeidi, I’m so glad you do these blogs. Tonight was the first time I missed 3/4ths of the show due to an emergency and missed all the first dances but Josh & Sharna.
I just read over your take on everything. And, will have to watch the replay youtube videos. I’m not surprised that Mirai went home. I could tell she was going to be sacrificed. I loved her personality and it never bothered me, she’s young. At least Sasha & Sharna are in the finals the way I suspected TPTB were aiming for.
Funny, after being a member here since season 17 and watching the show since season 7, it’s getting pretty transparent and predictable. I like Adam, his heart is so in to it and he is the best of the two dancers in the finale. My feeling about Tonya are that the past is the past. She was my favorite most exciting ice skater, and was sad about it all changing because of a bad sort interfering and performing a nasty deed. I’ve enjoyed her now in her later years and am happy she tried this experience. Now on with voting…..
I gave all my votes to Tonya and Sasha. I really want them to win now.
After tonight Adam and Jenna could possibly win this. Not a big fan of Josh, I would rather have.had Chris and Witney take their spot. I love Tonya and Sasha.
Happy with the three finalists. Could make an argument for each.
Josh & Sharna are still my favorites since week one. Here’s hoping they bring it big for the free style.
Held my voting till after the eliminations to not waste any. While I thought it sweet for Josh to choose his 4 brothers for mvp, did he lose some “mom” votes from the fanbase?
Other stuff:
Wondering if the pros get an extra $200 each week for every prop or set they recycle this season? Tonight was the mast noticeable/distracting for me.
And I couldn’t take my eyes off the need for tailoring with Chris’s white jacket. The sleeves were moving toward a Princess Di poof. Yikes! Love his mom. Hope she had fun.
Marai’s quickstep score only made Josh’s #1 spot underscore from last week seem more obvious. Happy to see scores relate to performances a bit closer tonight.
Happy Tonya and Sasha made the finals but still don’t think they can overtake Adam and Jenna. I am be in the minority, but I am not a fan of contemporary and I don’t want to see it on this show. So if the pros take lessons please save it for SYTYCD or World Of Dance, this is a ballroom show. Love the show and sorry it’s only 4 weeks.
You have an eagle eye and elephant’s memory,
Carol. The recycling of costumes and lack of tailoring was distracting to me too. Chris looked like when you try to dress Barbie in Ken’s tuxedo jacket.
The magenta costumes against a magenta background set is also hard to watch; something I saw overused on the tour and now getting overdone on the series, and of course in Nastia’s own dance, and primarily Nastia’s dance. Everybody else got contrasting colors and dances you could see without getting a migraine!
Something else that’s been recycled or used to death this season: the American football field gridlines lighting effect that they superimpose on the dancefloor before ad breaks.
Is this like a leftover special effect from the ESPN holiday party, and Disney wants to get their money’s worth before they surplus it?
One thing to note – 2 of 3 finalists did a contemporary and the third (Tonya) had a rumba that had the emotion of a contemporary. I just don’t think the quickstep, foxtrot and waltz styles helped the eliminated couples.
Also thought the mentors were wasted. Especially in this shortened season. I’m with Tom – it’s a bloodbath!
Loved Adam’s contemporary. Jenna did a good job.
Tonya has been surprising me every week with great dances. Good job Sasha. I believe she deserves to be in the final.
I’m not sure how I feel about Chris’ foxtrot. I think it was almost a copy (tribute?) to Bindi’s. Same outfits of the couple, same outfits of the troupe, the black hats, the curtain, the part with the hats… That Grace Kelly dance of Bindi is one of my favorites ever on DWTS and I think it did not do Chris any favors that the comparison was so obvious. But I really liked him and would have loved him in a regular season to get to know him better and see him dancing more.
I also like Josh and Sharna but their salsa was a mess! LOL Hope the freestyle is great!
Tonya was just terrible. Why did they keep her own. We think it was because of the movie.
Tonya done well, she is a good dancer. Sasha did an amazing kid
Very happy for them . Tonya deserved to be in the final.
Carol (#57) … I don’t think Josh picking his brothers as his MVPs lost him any “mom votes.” I personally loved it & if I wasn’t already voting for him, that would’ve made me toss some votes his way.
I had already said that they should just name it “Mom Week” if they’re all going to pick Mom as their MVP. So predictable, so boring. Not taking anything away from the moms, but really, so predictable.