Dancing with the Stars Season 28, Week FIVE – LIVE BLOG
What do I expect to see tonight?? A bunch of contemporary and jazz dances that are called by another name…like quickstep, samba, V.waltz and foxtrot…and possibly even Paso, although his song actually is a closer fit that many of the others.
What else do I expect to see? A decent dancer sent home instead of the person who should be going home.
T-minus 30 minutes to show time.
Great opening – love how they featured Pasha and Daniella. 🙂 Male pros had the best bit. Loved that…best opening in quite some time.
Sailor up first with Cinderella – nailed that one. All your expected Disneyification in the packages.
Took a really long time to move across the floor. But she seems to be doing quite well. Very princess-y VW.
Len: Light and fluffy like a soufle – would have liked more in hold. Makes a comment about her def back next week.
Bruno: Belle of the ball, acting it very well. Great job. Balance is starting to be on the axis.
CAI: Got emotional because you were in character. Magic of Disney. Amazing dance.
Scores: 8, 8, 8 for 24 out of 30. I expect to see lots of 8s tonight, although I think she earned them. But now, the good dancers will start leaving because your president it tweeting support of someone instead of focusing on a million more important things.
Karamo up next with a Samba to Lion King. Awww…a single dad.
So far so good. Decent hips. He’s bending kinda far over. He has a gorgeous smile. It got even better the farther in he got to the dance. I thought that was pretty good!! Should be 7s again. If not, they’re screwing him. He’s emotional. 🙂
Bruno: Let me hear you roar! Really attacked like a leader. Fell back a bit when in hold with Jenna. Great performance.
CAI: You radiate joy. Agree with Bruno. Use each others energy a bit more.
Len: Fun and joyful. Unfortunately your feet are your problem, went wrong on the running promenades. (Agree he had feet issues but Len always makes it sound worse than it actually is).
Score: 7, 7, 7 for a total of 21 out of 30.
Numbers Update: About 15k votes per million votes cast between Karamo and Sailor…not very much.
Kate up next with Mary Poppins…I’m killing it so far with the song guesses. 🙂 Jazz….Kate also has a bit of training in college. Not a big deal. Most women do. It is what it is.
Pasha is choreographing a quickstep to this in the opening bars. Gets much more jazzy in the middle. A whole lot of carrying Kate. that was a fun dance but an example of why I don’t like Disney week very much. A lot of not-dancing, but performance.
CAI: Kate is back! Started with Quickstep. Such a powerful couple. What the actual hell is going on right now???
Len: There was a nice section of polka, quickstep, charleston all wrapped up in a sweet and delicious routine.
Bruno: The medicine worked wonders. Olden days musical feel. Own personal take on Mary Poppins.
Scores: 8, 8, 8 for a total of 24 – I would agree with that.
Lindsay up next and I’m batting a thousand on the songs so far. 🙂 He’s off time right from the start. They’ve got to stop using the stairs. Other wise, slowest quickstep in history and totally off time. Lindsay does a good job of getting some stuff in there that he can nail.
Len: You’ve got a friend in me. I watched carefully. Nice heel leads. Frame pretty good. Stuff in hold. Don’t get over excited – it was a proper dance, well done. (crack is wack).
Bruno: It was better. She was talking you through it. Credit to someone who tries very hard. It was better.
CAI: That was your best dance.
What the actual fuck are these judges smoking?? If he does better than 5s….well, the judges are afraid of death threats.
Scores: 7, 6, 6 for a total of 19 out of 30.
Seriously, CAI, giving this dude the same score as Karamo?? What the actual fuck.
Numbers Update: Only about 10k votes per million between SS and Karamo. And about 25k between SS and Kate/Sailor.
Ally up next with contemporary to Beauty and the Beast. Ally is so pretty. And she’s doing very well with this dance. Good choreography from Sasha and well executed.
Bruno: Thank you, 1.5 minutes of pure happiness. Fearless commitment.
CAI: Think you had training but you don’t. Lines aren’t from that. You still go 100%, authentic to you. Fantastic.
Len: Smooth like butter on a hot muffin, gliding across the floor. Lifts in keeping with routine. There was emotion running through that. Cracking routine.
Scores: 9, 9, 9 for a total of 27. I agree with that. That was a pretty dance.
Numbers Update: Well Ally should be safe with that score. As of right now, there are about 40k votes per million between her and S___. Karamo, on the other hand is in danger.
Daniella up next as Elsa. She is so freakin’ amazing. The camera work on this dance is extra shitty. Feature Daniella – a world class dancer – and you can’t even light it, block it or stage it so that she is actually featured. Jesus, DWTS.
Lauren up next with a samba to Little Mermaid. That wig is gawdawful. I like the jelly fish. I’m not liking the staging of this one so far. the choreography is doing her no favors. She looked a bit lost towards the end. Not sure what was going on with her face.
CAI: Hardest dance to get because the bounce is hard. Fantastic bounce. Weird arms once in a while. Still growing, it was wonderful.
Len: Lots of Samba content amongst the messing about. Went wrong in the running promenades. Little bit too much going on. Nice dancer though.
Bruno: Fabulous under water. Nice samba. Went a bit weird at times and lost count.
Scores: 8, 7, 8 for a total of 23 – over scored, IMO. There was a lot of weird shit with that dance.
Numbers Update: Well, now we’re down to 9.9k votes between S__ and Karamo. There are 19.9k votes per million votes cast between S___ and Lauren, and 24.8k votes per million votes cast between S___ and Sailor/Kate. Ally should be good as S___ would have to get close to 40k more votes per million votes cast to beat her.
Kel is up next and they’re making me hungry. They are doing Jazz to High School Musical. Ugh.
He’s quite good. This is another dance that is in his wheelhouse. No obvious mistakes. Second or third instance tonight where the backup dancers have been more focused than the actual celeb. But he really did a great job with this dance.
Len: that was a dance that really suited you, well done.
Bruno: In the zone, top of the class. Keep that level in the other dances as well.
CAI: Led that number like the champ you are.
Agreed with all of that. Very good dance.
Scores: 9, 8, 9 for a total of 26 out of 30.
Hannah up next with Aladdin. Did I get all the songs right? I think I might have. Nice opening. Love the dress. Nice rotations. Very pretty dance. Little rough in the one transition. All in all a lovely dance. Ballroom suits her, I think.
Bruno: radiant. Magic carpet ride. Couldn’t see the footwork.
CAI: That was stunning. Amazing dance.
Len: Lovely dancer. Alan, this girl is fantastic in hold – needed more.
Why do they seem like they’re rushing but it seems like there is plenty of time. What else do they have planned?
Scores: 9, 7, 9 for a 25 out of 30. Seriously Len?? The 7 is ridiculous. Scored lower than Sailor?
Numbers Update: Here’s where we stand with James still left to dance. Number on the right is how many votes per million SS would have to get to be safe over them. I think we’re going to be in for a shock. We’ll see.
Sean vs. Karamo | 0.94% | 9,434 |
Sean vs. Lauren | 1.89% | 18,868 |
Sean vs. Kate/Sailor | 2.36% | 23,585 |
Lamar vs. Hannah | 2.83% | 28,302 |
Lamar vs. Kel | 3.30% | 33,019 |
Sean vs. Ally | 3.77% | 37,736 |
Oy veh. James is the only dancer left and I have 15 minutes on the clock. Pirates of the Caribbean, Paso. I’m expecting all 9s.
He sure looks good. 🙂 That was a great dance. There was something strange about it, but I’m not sure I can say what. I enjoyed it and I fully expect him to get a great score.
CAI: Energy was off the charts. So dynamic. This was your dance.
Len: It was dramatic and strong, touch of aggression. Could have been sharper in some areas. Having said that, it was a great routine.
Bruno: Grand spectacle. A big hit.
Ya know, Len is a major pain in the ass, but they need to stop truncating him. Last week it was Leah and this week it was Tom. What is up with that?
Scores: 9, 8, 9 for a 26 out of 30. Yeah, I agree with that. Don’t see a point difference between him and Emma, but I doubt it will make a difference in the long run. All in all, I think I agree with the scores tonight except I think they over scored SS a good bit which will likely come back to bite them. I don’t think Lauren had that great of a night, but she was certainly better than Sean.
Okay, so you were running short of time so you could have the stars talk about how they don’t want to go home yet? And a big retrospective? Since they aren’t getting a proper send off, I guess that’s got to be done. LOL to Kel’s donald duck imitation.
SAFE: EVERYBODY cuz nobody goes home on Disney Night. Your first clue should have been the credits rolling during that first “who’s going to be safe” thing.
Okay, is that one or two double eliminations that will be coming in the next few weeks??
I think tonight could be the first surprise bottom 2.
My gut feeling says Kate is going to be the one going. Hopefully I’m wrong.
Also, while I’m bored of Disney night as a whole, I wish they’d get a better variety of songs. I know it comes to rights issues and/or cost that ABC probably isn’t willing shell out-but been there, done that with this line up.
Disney night is always my absolute FAVORITE
I feel like they took awhile to get going, and that there wasn’t much to it. What there was, was nice.
Also loved the pro number Miss having those this season.
I looked at the tweet, and most of the responses on the feed are negative. Let’s hope that carries over, and I don’t vote for Spicer ( Full disclosure: I want him to go home because he’s The worst dancer left. It’s not personal).
I think Karamo is getting better. That wasn’t great, but I’d say was his best dance so far. I really enjoyed it (and unlike most Disney songs, I love that one).
I hope extra dancers aren’t going to become the norm again.
Kamaro’s kids are so cute
Loved the opening. Sailor was excellent tonight. Her best yet do i would have given her an 8. Love the effects she has on Val too. He seems so chill and happy this season. Only person I can think of that had that effect in him was Laurie tbh. Now karamo on the other hand….wasn’t feeling this one. At all. My least fav from him thus far. Just kinda forgettable but he did what Jenna told him to do so I guess my issue is with the choreographer in this case. I would give him a 7
The TPTB should’ve given Karamo Jazz instead of Samba to give him a boost after being in the bottom last week. Jazz would’ve suited him better.
Kate the great 🙂 I mean another fun routine and she is killing each dance. This week was even more fun than usual since that song is beyond fun. I mean good luck getting that song out of your head dwts viewers ????. Such a great dance for her and let her tap into that pure joy that she can only bring to the dance floor. Also, Carrie Ann……yeah falling over is always unexpected but I always expect it from Bruno for some reason. I’d give her a 9 tbh
Kate and Pasha were great! That was really enjoyable, and I knew those two were going to put together something fun and creative.
Don’t forget to include CONTEXT! Include a name of the dancers you’re talking about, please.
Interesting order tonight. Wonder if the better couples are going last because they don’t need the votes?
If not Sean tonight I have no idea who. I’m sticking with Kate, but I think it could possibly be Kel. Or maybe Len’s comment to Sailor about being back next week is foreshadowing to her leaving tonight?
You’ve Got A Friend In Me will always belong to Paige/Mark. That was a great dance.
Sean’s quickstep is going about as well as I expected. He made mistakes, and that was even’t the worst of it.
Ok so Sean kinda grew on me with the video but as soon as he hit the dance floor…..well different story lol. That was brutal. Costumes looked great though. I’d give him a 4. Bordering on a 5. Just very meh and not a lot of wow factor either.
Where do you get these “Numbers Updates”? Would love to look at it in real time. Thanks!
If this quickstep doesn’t get rid of Spicer nothing will That was a damn trainwreck
Sean should not of gotten scores that high for a quickstep that slow. He really really needs to go home
Sean’s gotta be going home tonight, and they are sending him off on a high note. Either that or they need to get rid of Disney night if they are going to be that generous.
Karamo and Kate have been my favorites so far.
excuse me… but where was the empathy with Lamar as the judges are showing S**n this week?? I’m annoyed. They can just pick and choose who to be nasty to and who to be nice to, especially with celebs who may not be the best dancers but are improving.
As much as I want Sean gone tonight, my gut feeling is that Kel or Karamo is leaving instead
SMH at these judges. Lindsay’s partner was off-time and awkward throughout that dance. That was worse than last week. A seven? These judges are gonna get a contender like Kate or Kel eliminated for giving S___ a participation-trophy seven.
Okay, I don’t like contemporary and I hope we see very few of them this season-but Ally’s dance was really, really good. Probably one of the few contemporary’s I’ve enjoyed since it was introduced as a style. That deserves 9s, compared to the other dances so far.
Ally! I expected her to struggle this week for some reason but damn was i wrong. That was incredible. Emmy contender? Best dance all season so far in my opinion. I would give that a 9 easily.
I do math, Heather. 🙂
I knew Ally was going to get 9s, I thought we might even see a 10. Well deserved score!
Haha figured as much, but based off of what metrics? Thanks!
I saw my old boss at lunch today and he jokingly asked me if I was watching “Dancing With the Fascists” tonight. I told him will! It’s on in 2 more hours where I live. Before I watch it, I have fun reading the previews you guys post here.
But I also told my old boss that if Lindsay’s partner doesn’t get bottom two or kicked off soon, I don’t think I’ll be able to enjoy watching the rest of the series. So fingers crossed that some other Stars will advance in the scores and votes! Yay, some other Stars! I’m rooting for you guys!
I’m glad Daniella got her own number to show how amazing she is. Should this season see a season 29 I hope she gets a celeb next time. She’s being wasted on the sidelines.
So we go from Ally/Sasha to another underwhelming number from Gleb. It was decent in the middle but I thought there was some missteps at the end by Lauren. Probably her best dance so far, but I think Disney night helped make the dance, not Gleb’s choreography.
It’s week five, what has Gleb even taught Lauren? Those scores were way too generous.
I Am torn here. On one hand: that was a fun samba and Lauren (and gleb!) seemed to have fun. On the other hand, it want great and to be honest I think I’m only going to remember the beginning more than the end of that dance. I’d give that a 7 but I liked her better than last week
That was a great dance by Kel. Probably my favorite from him so far. I think being in the bottom 2, then getting redemption with the high scores and praise last week, did him some good.
I would give that all 8s.
Oh Kel :). He loves himself some disneyland doesn’t he lol. That dance was a blast. I’d easily give that dance an 8. I just wish they had used a sharpy and Ryan like moment too like they had in the movie. Loved this.
Kel and Witney just killed that dance. Favorite of the night by far. I really hope people start seeming him as a huge contender.
Okay, I don’t know if I would have given that two 9s. I can see that they are purposely trying to make things close. I guarantee either Hannah and/or James get at least one 10 at this point (Hannah/Alan said in an interview with ET that they were hoping to get one 10, if not a perfect score-so I won’t be surprised if they get their wish).
Kel gave everybody mid 2000’s vibe with High School Musical
I liked Hannah’s dance strictly because Alan didn’t have her hiding behind a bunch of dancers. And as for the dance itself, that really was a lovely foxtrot by Hannah/Alan. Still don’t know if I like Hannah all that much (something just seems too ‘on’ all the time), but she does light up the dance floor.
Hannah + foxtrot = magic. By far her best dance in my opinion. Costumes weren’t great (I prefer the original animated movie to the live action one….costumes included lol). I’d easily give them a 9. And the sound bite of the season this far goes to “it’s Disney night!” Len: “I don’t care!” Dying of laughter with the 7. I mean over reaction much Len.
Len gave Hannah’s dance the same score he gave Karamo and Lauren-guess he ran out of goodwill.
Very excited to see James/Emma! I think the paso is going to be right up his alley.
Len gives Hannah 1 point higher than the Toy Story routine?!?!
Glad I’m not the only one wondering why they are rushing @Princess Heidi. Maybe a shocking outcome? And I didn’t think about Hannah’s dance being a point lower than Sailor’s (from Len’s score). That’s crazy.
I can’t tell what James loved more this dance or his costume. This guy….I mean who knew he would be this good when they cast him?! Promote him or her please. I would give them a 9 easily and another Emmy contender here. Something about this pirates song brings out the best in the pros doesn’t it.
If they criticize James/Emma this week after that performance, he really can’t win with them. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but I really enjoyed it. Hard to mess up a Pirates paso, and that was different. I think Emma’s underrated as a choreographer on here.
James deserves 9s at the very least. So Len gave James the same score as Sailor and Kel, who I don’t think were as good, and docked Hannah a point lower, and I think she was just as good.
Tom can usually do not wrong in my book, but I’m kind of annoyed with even him when it comes to interrupting Len and making jabs.
No way, Vin, was that an Emmy worthy dance. Not even close. Let’s tame the hyperbole, k?
Kara, that dance did Daniella no favors. Having sat 15 feet from her dancing with Derek, so far I’m disappointed that she hasn’t been shown off better. She’s the best pro on the show when it comes to dancing. It wasn’t her, it was the damn camera/light/staging that just was crap.
They probably didn’t eliminate anyone so they would have 8 couples in Halloween for the team dances. This season only has 12 couples instead of 13 or 14 as it usually is, I doubt we’ll even see a double elimination unless it’s semifinals or something like that.
I was underwhelmed by Hannah’s dance but it was probably this version of the song, they ruined a pretty good song.
James’s dance was good, but he was moving weirdly. I think I prefer Emmma’s choreo buut Riker’s dancing?
Heather, you calculate the percentage that each could gets of the total points handed out by the judges. The difference in percentages is what you use to calculate how many votes per million votes cast are required for the lower scored to pass the higher scored. For the live shows, I tend to leave the dancers scores from the previous week to get the total points handed out and then paste over this weeks scores. That’s why there are changes as the show goes along.
I feel like it’s kind of tacky how much they were announcing they were running low on time… This is your 28th season; figure it out. If I did that at work I’d be having a proper sit down haha
Overall, i wasn’t too wowed with any of the dances. They were nice, but the only one that really stuck out to me was Kel and Witney. I thought James’ was good, but I just remember being so blown away by Alison and Ryker when they did Pirates that I found it hard to compare.
Yes Ammie, Allison and Riker’s Pirates is still one of my all-time favorite DWTS routines!
I hope they didn’t waste this non-elimination on a week where Lindsay’s partner would’ve been in the bottom two. I hope it was used to save one of the other contestants.
Princess Heidi, I totally agree about the under-utilization of Daniella, especially after seeing how her dancing was highlighted & interwoven during almost every minute of Derek’s tour!
Unfortunately the DWTS’s camera work & staging seems to focus on covering her up rather than showcasing one of their best assets.
I find myself searching for glimpses of her during all the group numbers instead of paying attention to the principals!
@ Heidi about the double elimination thing: Whether or not there is one would depend on how many couples they’re having in the finals. It’s supposedly an 11-week season based on a schedule I saw someone share (I think on twitter?) so if there are going to be 4 couples at the end like last season we won’t need a double so long as one team is eliminated each week for weeks 6-10. If there are only 3 at the end we’ll have one double elimination at some point.
Isn’t this season slotted to be 11 episodes/weeks? They had a ton of double eliminations last season because it took less than 10 weeks to filter through 13 pairs. We’ve had two eliminations and a withdrawal, so we should be on schedule for maybe one double elimination coming during team dances but that’s it.
Missed this week so caught up late on YT. I noticed something. Every dance I watched had a link to Hannah and Alan at the end of it. No matter who I watched Hannah’s link was at the end. Is this just me or is everyone like that?
I’ve seen a lot of comparisons between James and Emma’s paso and Riker and Allison’s, but I don’t think anyone trying to say that James and Emma copied Riker and Allison’s dance. I noticed a lot of differences in the choreography and I loved the section when James was leading everyone. Emma did a great job choreographing it and making it different because she knew there were automatically going to be people comparing him to Riker just based off of the theme and the song. But at the end of the day, R&A’s paso is so memorable that I couldn’t help but compare. Even if they had done a perfect paso there would have been comparisons, just like Ally & Sasha’s jive last week.
Thanks Heidi! xx
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I think my ultimate fave last night was Ally & Sasha again. I think Sean and Lindsay are going home next week for sure.
Oh and …Ryker & Allison’s Pirates dance is my fave if compared to Emma and James’ dance last night.
James best dance of the season so far for me. Choreography was brilliant. Especially the bit when all the guys thought Emma was dead but then she gets up and kills them all. I have no idea where Emma gets these complex stories from but think she is definitely unique
Loved Ally and Sasha too. So much creativity in one house
TYPICAL VAL WENT INSIDE THE CARRIAGE FIRST THEN THE WOMAN. SELFISH!!
I thought Sailor’s dance was very magical, she really looked like Cinderella. It was probably my favorite dance she has done. Karamo’s definitely improving, I think he’s getting better every week. With that being said though, I don’t really like the pairing of Jenna and Karamo, I don’t know why, it just seems like they don’t mesh well together. I really enjoyed Kate’s probably because it was Mary Poppins and I’m obsessed with that movie. However, I agree, it felt too much performance not a lot of just Pasha and Kate dancing. Oh well. For Lindsay and her partner it was better but gosh he needs to go home already. Credit to Lindsay though because she’s done pretty well with him, she’s been able to make him look slightly better than he is with her choreography. I love Linds but seriously he needs to get sent home. Ally’s dance was pretty but it didn’t really do anything for me. That’s probably just because it was contemporary, she is a beautiful dancer though. Lauren’s dance was fun but she definitely had a couple mistakes. It was a weird dance and it might have had to do with Gleb’s choreo. I really liked Kel’s dance, these past weeks he really improved and I think he could really be in contention. He was having so much fun, it was infectious. I loved Hannah’s, it was so beautiful, elegent, and ughhh Len though. A 7 seriously?? Kind of made me mad. I love Hannah and Alan though, they’re so goofy. I did like James and Emma too, I love how creative Emma is. Anyways, thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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Glad for DWTS to return. I am voting and hoping that SASha will win the mirror ball. He is such a good dancer- just like Mark Ballas. Glad when they all return to dwts – other pros.