Opening dance sequence -- I love Joshua. He dances the shit out of his five seconds. Almost as good? Katee's beehive.
Cat Deeley is wearing a clingy black jersey number, super-short. Hair:loose. It's a good look. Still maybe a little more bronzer than I'm comfortable with, but good just the same.
Will/Courtney. My freaking Fox affiliate decided to shrink our show to about a fifth of the screen because it's raining outside, and it's possible some viewers are unaware of that. So, I couldn't really see, but the judges liked this. Something about Will and 300 -- I hate it when Uncle Nigel makes pop culture references.
Comfort. I think I've lost all perspective on Comfort. I feel like I keep seeing things in her that no one else does.
Twitch/Katee. These two are friends in real life. In this piece, Katee is playing -- I can't help but sense -- Mia Michaels. I'm sorry. I didn't love this piece. I loved Twitch in it, so much. Otherwise, this felt like someone told Mia, "Write a piece for that Duffy song." Am I wrong? It's good, but it's not truly crazy or personal the way Mia's usually are. Then the judges are out of hand for about 15 minutes. Toni Basil (I know! I can't believe I haven't said anything about her before, either!) says some stuff I have to translate and then immediately forget. Mary screams some thing long and incomprehensible, possibly about North Carolina. Then there's a long, unfunny discussion about whether or not Nigel has ever imprisoned Mary. I'm serious -- I may have misunderstood the whole thing because at some point I stopped being able to process information, but that's what I think I heard.
Will. Wow. So this seems like a huge stunt to convince America that Will has a personality, and then the routine itself is one long insult with a wig on top. Wow. Either he's safe this week because he's Will, who can apparently do no wrong, or he's goneso because Jesus! He wasted most of his time standing in the back and then he did like a split. It was all wig! I'm insulted. I think America should be insulted.
Mark/Comfort. Wow. This was so much better than I expected -- I thought Mark would suck, but he was excellent. Then Nigel insulted Comfort -- "You're so much better when you perform to choreography." Wow. And that's the end of Comfort on this show.
Katee. My local Fox affiliate has fucked things up so badly that I can barely see this. It's just a series of stills accompanied by weird buzzes and clicks.
Joshua/Chelsie. Reception still blows, then it returns. Wow! I think it says a lot that Chelsie can hold her own with Joshua. Of course the downside to turning the shit out on a number like this is that Mary Murphy is going to scream at you about her God damn Hot Tamale Train. Toni Basil, though, is surprisingly lucid and measured in her response. She says what I think we all kind of think, at this point: "How can you not respond to Chelsie?"
Missed some in the middle . . .Mark's solo routine . . . I don't think it matters . . . Will/Courtney. No, I saw this but it left no impression. Chelsie -- I certainly did not see Chelsie perform.
Twitch/Katee. Eh. This seemed fine but kind of boring. They always just praise the crap out of Tyce Diorio, but here I don't think it's completed earned. Hmm. Nigel says that Twitch has the least training of any dancer in the competition -- is that high praise or subtle undermining? I can't tell.
Joshua. Fairly good routine -- it seemed to build a little too slowly. I think he meant to get more in before the end of his time.
Mark/Comfort. This was boring but it didn't bother me as much as it bothered the judges. My main problem -- the lighting made me feel like I was having a seizure. That doesn't seem fair to the dancers.
Courtney. Not very exciting -- why do all of the solo contemporary routines look exactly the same? Jump to the front of the stage, then swing back, then spin, then weird splayed-hip swaying . . . What does all of that represent? Is it supposed to express something? I don't get it.
Joshua/Chelsie. Wow. The judges loved this, but it seemed to me clunky. Maybe that's just disco? It's supposed to look amateurish because it's really just something regular people do (or did) on the dance floor? Plus Gloria Estefan . . . OK, I get that the lifts are hard and they looked great. Glad the judges liked this as well.
Bottom Four: Mark, Comfort, Courtney, Will. Going home: Mark, Comfort, absolutely. No question.
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