Dancing With The Stars Season 29 “End Of The Season” Questionnaire (Grade, Suggestions Wanted, And More)
So, now that we’ve all had some time to mull over Dancing With The Stars Season 29, how are you feeling about it? Answer the questions below and let us know how you feel in comments!!
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most?
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season?
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple?
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be?
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better?
See you in comments!
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most? Anne Heche. I really loved having her on the season. She never let anything get her down. So funny and enjoyable.
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season? Nev, Johnny, and Kaitlyn
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple? This is so hard, but, I’ll pick Jenna and Nev’s Singing In The Rain dance. I loved the remix and how the dance was choreographed. It had some classic moves and then it went all funky, electric, and modern in the middle section to the end.
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be? Jenna!
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better? I would grade it with a B-. My biggest suggestion is to get rid of Tyra and get Tom and Erin back.
1. Anne Heche and Nelly. I thought Nelly was going to come in with a serious attitude and ego, thinking he’s too big for this show and things should go his way because of his fame (because really, Nelly’s probably one of the biggest gets they’ve had in a very long time). So I was surprised by how hard he seemed to try, and how much fun he seemed to have. I know some people knocked him in the beginning for acting like he didn’t want to be there, but I think once he found his groove he was great. I was also surprised at Anne, I really wish she could have lasted longer. She had so much raw potential, and I loved her partnership with Keo.
2. Nelly, Johnny, Jeannie
3. Hmm…I have quite a few, but I’m going to go with Jeannie’s VW during Disney week. I’m pretty much over Disney week at this point, but that was a fun, different kind of dance and I thought a break through for Jeannie.
4. Daniella. She didn’t have much to work with in Nelly, but I thought she choreographed great routines with content, but did it at his level so he wasn’t standing out even worse. She really reminds me of so many of the OG pros in that regard.
5. Overall I’d say a B-. To the bad part: Tyra really was a downer this season, and if she is back next season (which she probably will be), I hope they take the feedback about her making the show about herself to heart and relegate her to how Tom use to do things. Tom knew his place on the show, he knew he wasn’t the star. In addition, aside from Derek, the judges and their inconsistent comments were also pretty bad, too. Quite a few pros seemed to speak up this season about the judges, more than I remember from previous seasons. And 15 couples was just too many. It would have made sense if they wanted to extend the season a few weeks, but it ended the same time as it always does.
As for the positive, I thought it was a pretty good cast, with very few dancing duds. With the exception of Charles and Carole, both who went out early, everyone left after that was good or had lots of room to improve. I liked the song selections (nice to get some new selections), and of course the addition of Daniella, seeing Keo back, Artem winning, and Brandon getting a good partner again. I do think a lot of the dances were memorable enough. While I hope it’s awhile before we see anyone from the Bachelor franchise again, I was happy Kaitlyn got to fulfill her dream after all these years.
My biggest suggestion-get rid of Tyra and Carrie Ann, keep Derek, get rid of Disney week (I could do without theme weeks personally, aside from Halloween and Latin night), have more consistent judging and comments, and let the pros have more creative freedom again.
1)I expected to hate Anne heche and Lo and behold she is the life of the party.
2. Nev, Kaitlyn, Justina.
3. I still can’t stop thinking about nev and jennas paso.
4. Hey artem, I like the happy version of you we got this season. It showed In the Choreography. Saying that my answer is Jenna.
5. B+. COVID hit us all like a Mach truck and it showed. I’d guess that the openings would have been different if we could have had group numbers and the celebs come out and that’s my suggestion. Also, Tyra did ok. It’s her first season maybe she will grow into it maybe she Will need to go after her second season not sure yet. Also, stop kissing vals butt judges.
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most? Nelly!
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season? Nelly, Justina, NEv
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple? Nelly’s jive
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be? I guess on the tangent I’m going it’ll have to be Daniella.
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better? FFFFFFF!!!! I HATE the bachelor people getting preferenced. Same with Disney people (Jordan), but it’s happened SO often with the bachelor “ladies”. Rigged much?
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most? Chrishell Stause
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season? AJ, Kaitlyn, Chrishell
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple? AJ and Cheryl Cha Cha
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be? Artem
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better? C. Liked the stars, pros and Derek as a judge but Tyra needs to go. She made the show all about her and was to animated. DWTS needs to have a new/different host/hostess. Suggestions: bring Tom and Erin back, Alfonso Ribeiro, Jordan Fisher, pretty much anyone BUT Tyra.
It got an F from me. It seems to have deteriorated into Dancing with the Bachelors , Bachelorettes, & Housewives. If there is a season 30, it will be going on without me
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most? Justina Machado
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season? Justina, Jeannie, and Kaitlyn (mostly for Artem)
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple? The Paso by Hayley Erbert and Derek Hough.
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be? See #3. No pro can reach that level.
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better? D for the show; A+ for Derek. He was the only reason I watched after they let the heart and soul of the show for 28 seasons go. Tom Bergeron was the glue that kept the craziness together. He didn’t make it about him but was there for the occasional funny line. I don’t want to see a catwalk and weird clothes every week. The show is not about HER. Whoever had their finger on the crowd noise needs to be go. And the thing that has been true from the start: the producers don’t care if the “buzz” is good or bad because they only want the buzz. I think they prefer the negative buzz.
kI would give DWTS a F this season.
All kinds of flashing lights detracted from dancing.
Dances too short.
Get Tom Bergeron Back.I did not watch the full season.
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most?
Justina. From Day 1 she showed that she is a power to be reckoned with. She exceeded my expectations by miles and deserved to be in the finals
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season?
Nev, Kaitlyn and Justina (potential wise Skai would’ve been on this list)
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple?
Skai and Alan Argentine Tango. Brilliant dance, amazing lifts, her movement quality was superb. By far the best dance of the season.
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be? Artem. I liked every dance Kaitlyn did. He deserved to have a season as great as this.
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better?
B-. I think I will always love DWTS no matter what. I mean I skipped last season because of university (Honestly Bobby’s win also factored in). This year the cast was actually amazing. They had so much potential. Everyone in the top 10 but Chrishell and Nelly were great which made eliminations so difficult every week. But I felt that the dances weren’t as great as usual. Usually a semi final dance would feel like one. This season no one performed at that level. That probably was caused by the reduced training time because of COVID. But it makes me sad we won’t see these couples under normal circumstances. Also Derek was not a great judge. I felt he was afraid to hurt the pros’ feelings which isn’t the point. While Tyra sucked less than I thought, but Tom and Erin were just better. All in all an ok season done as best as possible all things considered.
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most?
Tie between Anne – loved being on the show, loved her Pro, tried her best – and Nelly, as it’s always fun to see someone start out looking like they’d like to fire their agent for getting them on DWtS and then ending up enjoying it.
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season?
Nev, Jeannie, Vernon
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple?
Derek’s Paso with Hayley aside – kind of in a league of its own – probably Nev & Jenna’s Swan Lake Paso.
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be?
Jenna. Hard to believe she’s gone from being someone who annoyed the heck out of me to someone whose work I look forward to. Miles ahead of everyone else except Sharna, who didn’t get much of a chance to show her stuff with Jesse.
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better?
C- Mediocre grade for a show that seems to have settled for mediocre results rather than risk anything like a Bones win again. Still fun enough that I’ll watch it until it’s cancelled, but in everything from the dancing to judging to hosting to costuming, the bar has been lowered so much it’s shocking to realize it hasn’t really been all that long since the stellar quality of Jordan Fisher’s season.
Given that the show seems so comfortable in its safe little rut, I don’t think there’s much that can be done for it. I would get rid of the Judges’ Save, though – it just does not fit with what DWtS is supposed to be IMO, and the judges blathering about how ‘tough’ it is to make a choice is one of my least favorite things to sit through.
1. Biggest surprise- Justina and Johnny. Justina was so energetic and danced with joy. Johnny just fell flat for me, because I expected more.
2. Top 3- Justina, Kaitlyn and Jesse. Jesse had absolutely no dance experience and wanted to learn. Unfortunately, he got hosed with horrible songs and dance assignments. Poor guy had to do quickstep and jive in first 3 weeks.
3. Favorite dance- Derek and Hayley paso. NO ONE could ever command the ballroom like they did.
4. The best Pro who choreographed in the actual competition was Daniella with Artem a close second. They did great work customizing moves to help their celebrities shine. Of course, nobody matched Derek’s choreo for the paso with Hayley or his solo. Hope he gets another Emmy.
5. Grade- D. The season highlight for me was seeing Derek dance again. He brought me so much joy during these challenging times. The rest of the show, however, brought back the same old manipulation and Tyra, too. The Covid restrictions made things worse- artificial crowd noise, no Pro dances, questionable costuming, poor lighting at times, etc. Suggestions for improvement:
1. Eliminate Tyra and bring Tom and Erin back. She made me physically ill and I stopped watching regularly after a few shows.
2. Eliminate lazy Pros who don’t put enough content into routines , waste time, and can not seem to get along with their partners or treat them respectfully. Time to retire Val, Gleb AND Cheryl. PETA seems to lack interest, too.
3. Judging needs to be consistent. Love some of Derek’s constructive comments, but he, too, drank the Kool Aide and promoted the agenda. He was way too lenient with Val and Gleb. CAI needs to go and be replaced by someone who knows all dance styles. I missed Len, so a judging team of Len, Derek and Bruno might be better, although I know ABC will be criticized for using all males.
4. Fewer couples, shorter season, and a return to everyone dancing the same two dance styles in the first two weeks before anyone is eliminated: cha cha and foxtrot. Weeks three and four: tango and waltz. After that, random assignment. Eliminations on even weeks only, week 2, 4, 6, etc.
5. Introduce some rules regarding required content for each style and judge accordingly.
6. Most importantly, Pros should have final decision on music selected, costuming. Why are technical people allowed to change choreography or dictate inappropriate music? If ABC wants this show on the air, then support it and the creative people who know a little bit more than you do about dance.
7. I have been saying, “Who are these guys?” for many seasons now. How about getting some REAL celebrities on the show?
1. From the celebrity contestants on Dancing With The Stars 29, who surprised you the most?
I would have to say Jeannie! I was not expecting her to be such a light on the show. I wish she would have stayed on longer! A close second for me would have to be Justina. Wow.
2. When you look back, who were your top three celebrities for this season?
Kaitlyn, Nelly, and Johnny
3. What was your most favorite dance of the season by a couple?
Britt and Johnny’s VW was absolutely gorgeous! Also, all of the freestyles we excellent. Justina’s reminded me a lot of what you see when they go on tour. I loved it.
4. If you were to give a “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro on Dancing With The Stars Season 29, who would it be?
Sasha! Britt and Artem are very close though.
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? Also, do you have suggestions for the producers and the show’s future to make it better?
I would give it about a B-. I loved the line up this year. Bringing Artem and Sharna back was a huge plus too. I didn’t like how the packages didn’t really let you connect to the stars this year and hear a lot of their personal stories like in the past. I also wish we could have seen more rehearsal content. Not a big fan of Tyra or her outfit changes, but maybe that will get better with time. Derek was an excellent addition. Hopefully next season we can get opening numbers and group dances back!
get rid of TYRA! THE WORST EMCEE AND INTERVIEWER I HAVE EVER SEEN! And she never had a flattering dress on the whole season. Figure out a way to bring tom and Erin Back, PLEASE
1. Jeannie – I didn’t think I’d like her as much as I did. She was hilarious and I was very sad to see her have to pull out.
2. Jeannie, Nelly, Kaitlyn
3. Honestly I’m not sure really as I can’t think of many memorable dances this season. Maybe Kaitlyn’s AT. Derek and Hayley’s Paso for sure if we’re including dances from non celebs.
4. Daniella over the course of the whole season, although her freestyle for Nelly was a fail. She’s still learning though and I’m sure she will come again next time she makes it to a finale.
5. A solid B from me. A full completed season despite Covid. A good cast with some big name stars. Great pro line-up with the return of Artem and addition of Daniella/Britt. Derek a great Len replacement. Really liked the stage setup with no audience as well and no backup dancers. Plus, no real controversial eliminations and a fair winner at the end of it. If it wasn’t for Tyra, it would have been verging on A grade territory for me.
1. Who surprised me the most? I remember when Anne disappeared from Hollywood years ago, but I never knew why until she told her surprising side of the story this season. Her skills never really gelled on the ballroom floor, but she was loving every glittery minute. So for many reasons, Anne really surprised me.
2. Top 3 for this season? Johnny, Nelly & Jeannie.
3. Favorite dance of season? Johnny & Britt’s “Buttons” Cha Cha.
4. “Choreograph Award” to ONE pro? Artem.
5. From an “A” to an “F”, how would you grade Dancing With The Stars Season 29? B-. I enjoyed some of the stripped down COVID things like very few Pros & Troupe propping up early dances. Also there was a closeness between the Stars & Pros we haven’t seen in awhile. Derek and Hayley’s dance was beyond amazing. Johnny Weir has been a dream partner of mine for years. Britt and Daniella are both fabulous new Pros.
The audience boo/cheer track, and the frequent and inappropriate use of it, was maybe one of the worst things I’ve ever heard on TV. I really wanted to like Tyra as a host on DWTS, like I used to enjoy her talk show, but I just couldn’t dig what she was doing.
1. Justina
2. Justina, Jeannie, Skai
3. Nev and Jenna’s Contemporary
4. Daniella.
5. C+
I would grade season 29 a. D bescase another bachelorette won I was hoping for Justine and Shasha. Wanted to win not only would it had been Shasha 1 st mirror ball but I thought Justine really should have so I thought she and Shasha were great last season. Justine was so full of energy and spirit every time she went onto the dance floor I can’t believe she did not win I do hope Shasha has a chance next season to win I have to say Atrem did do great stuff to get Kayltin to win and kayltin is a really great dancer and I am happy she won and I am happy for Atrem for finally getting his 1 st throphy I hope it is Shasha turn next year I really liked Jesse Mcfree And Sharna it is to bad that. The songs they had when they were elimination were really bad I hope you can change that I feel bad for the pro and dancer when they have a bad song to dance to I love the fact that Derek Hough was a judge hope he comes back to be a dance pro next time He was great as a judge
I was really hoping that Shasha And Justine won season 29 Justine was so fun so funny so full of energy I really don’t see why they didn’t win I. Would grade the Season 29 a A because Derek Hough was a judge It was so nice seeing him on dwts again. It be great if mark ballas came back to season 30 My 3 favorites are kayltin And Atrem Justine And Shasha. And Alan And ski and Sharna and Jesse Mcfree it is to bad when they were eliminated they had a song that was bad why are the some of the songs so bad I thought for sure Sharna and her partner would still be on A longer than 3 place I really hope that Shasha has a chance to win season 30