( continues...) This dance was not for family consumption. Also, it was a crazy easy routine. Like, open level, walk in, studio class easy. Come on, Ray Leeper. There was so much posing and walking. Even the lifts were not all that challenging. And it was way too sexy. I’m sorry. I don’t need to see that much ass grabbing on my family show. Are those two doing it? They will be tonight. I agree that there could’ve been more contrast, more soft and hard. Good job, Christina Applegate. She’s so amazing. See how much better the commentary can be when actual dancers are there to give critiques?

Other Jasmine and Aaron/Lyrical Hip Hop/NappyTab/Tears Always Win –I completely disagreed with the judges here. I thought the piece did not sit well on them. That first partnered section was not good. They looked very awkward together And Jasmine is trying to hit the routine super hard but this is NappyTab in their unfortunate lyrical hop mode so as a result all that aggro, hard hitting movement is making her look a little bit frantic. I did enjoy Aaron once he got into the routine. He was kind of tearing it up. Although, I wish he hadn’t smiled through the whole thing. At times it seemed inappropriate. Also, I didn’t feel a ton of chemistry from them this week. I’m thinking of the Twitch/Sasha Misty Blue piece or Joshua/Katie in their Lyrical Hip Hop. Maybe Mark/Chelsie is a better analogy because they had the love hate thing going on. But any of the above oozed chemistry in their lyrical hip hop pieces whereas these two kinda didn’t. They had buckets of chemistry last week, but I just didn’t feel it here. I like both of these dancers a lot but this piece didn’t move me. Both tapper boys brought it this week, though. Well done.

Malece and Jade/Bollywood/Nakul/Radha – So right from the beginning of this routine there was a whole lot of walking around. They looked the part but that was pretty much my only bit of positive praise for this piece. That was one of the easiest Bollywoods they have ever had on the show. And Jade really was not getting the technique. Malece was better. That was bad, y’all, and the judges were really stretching trying not to call them on this crap. Oh, the soft bigotry of low expectations. It wasn’t good, kittens. And worse than that, it was boring.

Alexis and Nico/Contemporary/Stacy Tookie/Old Skin – I still can’t believe that these two didn’t hit B3. They must have some serious fan bases. Alexis was really gorgeous in this piece. She had lovely toe point and really good tension through the legs and feet. Very pretty soft arms. I found myself tracking her more, even though this is Nico’s style. Both of them did really well with some complicated lifts. I enjoyed it. Alexis is no Kathryn, not even close, but no one is. I didn’t really notice Nico at all in this piece except for his solo at the beginning which was fine. What I did notice and adore was Christina calling him out on making that opening turn sequence easier by ditching the attitude turn for a simple pirouette. Ha! She takes notes on the dress rehearsal. Yes. Love her!

Brittany and Bluprint/Broadway/Spencer Liff/It’s Oh So Quiet– Awww, Bluprint is learning about chenais turns and pirouettes. Good boy. And he was trying to bring more life to his face. I saw a smile and a wink. That said. He was very stiff and robotic in his movement. He was really trying, bless his heart. And he did partner Brittany very well. But…the movement just sat so poorly on him .You could really see the effort. It shouldn’t look hard. It should look light and carefree. Spencer did choreograph some tough stuff for them. I was glad to see Bluprint actually have to dance. Stretch and lengthen through the back and shoulders, amen, Mary. He really, really needs to heed that advice. And never let ‘em see you sweat. Jasmine and Alan/Tango/Miriam and Leonardo/Escape from Slavery – Look at that posture from Alan right out of the gate. Magnificent. He was giving me everything here. Jasmine, however, did not sell me. She looked very tentative, very (continued...)

( continues...) unsure of herself. Alan was owning that stage. The feet were giving me life. He was so solid here. I should not have been watching him more than I watched her but I totally did. And Jasmine didn’t help at all on that last lift. He got that up on muscle and grit alone. He was great and she was not good. Totally agree with Nigel that Alan should not have been B3. Hope he won’t go there again.

Mackenzie and Paul/Jazz/Sean Cheesman/Mannequin – Oooh, I loved the opening…all the business on the podium. Yep. Just like that. Mackenzie gave me all I could handle. She was great in this. Paul was trying and from a technical perspective he was fine, but I didn’t buy the character from him. And what is with all the sexy sexy tonight? Did the wardrobe hos just want to go costume shopping at Hustler? That was a totally enjoyable routine. And Christina brought the great critique again. Can she just be around all the time?

Mariah and Carlos/Contemporary/Stacey Tookie/ Dead in the Water – This routine had a gorgeous beginning. I buy Carlos as dead inside. And that was a fantastic turning lift they did. I’m impressed with Krump girl in contemporary. She had beautiful grounded movement. She pulled off a clean double turn. She displayed some gorgeous technique getting down into those plies and showing good flexibility through the back. I really appreciated that number. In its quiet way, it might have been my favorite of the night.

Amy and Fik Shun/Hip Hop/NappyTab/After Party –. I didn’t have a lot to say about this routine. It was fun, I guess. I like NappyTab more in this vein than in their lyrical hip hop mode. Overall, the piece was kind of fluffy and I’m sure I will barely remember it by this time next week. I kinda just wanted to watch Fik Shun. He was shutting it down. Amy did her best to get her twerk on, but well . . .oh, girl. Bless your heart. She just needed to let go more and just flow with it. And more ass work. More ass work was required. The panel just decided to give them the Malece and Jade treatment and not judge them. Alrighty then.

Jenna and Tucker/Cha Cha/Dmitry/I Like It Like That – Well, I guess it’s the sexy-fecta then. Jenna? Sexpot from the jump. I did enjoy the Hey, Big Spender feel at the beginning. At least until I started wondering when or if Tucker was going to dance at all. She was most definitely doing all the work. Which, whatever, she’s amazing, but where was the cha cha in this cha cha? The little bit of cha cha Tucker did do was sort of terrible. He posed well, though. And looked good in a tux. That . . . was not a cha cha cha. I agree with Nigel. It was contempo-cha or maybe jazz-cha. And it was fine, but dude, that’s not a show closing routine. I’m not usually a fan when Nigel scolds the choreographers but seriously Dmitry? You can do better.

In my B3

Malece and Jade – Again. Always. Until they both go home.

Bluprint and Nico would be my other two guys in B3 and Amy and Jasmine would be my other bottom 3 girls surprisingly, although neither of them should come close to going home.

In my going home

Do I even have to see it? Malece and Jade every week until they both go home.

And now to read what everyone else had to say!

Here is the AV Club's review, which I thought was pretty good (with some links to previous dances).

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I wonder if it has to do with timing. Maybe they have a shorter season this year?

The judges could have eliminated two last week! Why didn't they? This is the third week we've seen the top 20! Ridiculous. And SO MEAN making the eliminated dancers dance. What if a whole couple is eliminated?

I wish they would put some teeth into things and be more orderly:

a) eliminate 2 people at the end of the episode this week

b) can only use the judge's save one time per contestant (no saving a person from week to week if they hit the bottom 3 multiple times)

c) do a results show, but air it online (Fox, Netflix, Amazon) to get more revenue and might shorten the show.

Apparently this is the most despicable group of BB houseguests ever, but we'll never see it on TV. I can't decide if this means I should quit watching, or do a lot of secondary reading to keep up on who's the worst.

The pizza guy apparently called some of these racist tools on their BS, so there's at least one person to root for. So far.

If you choose the reading part, you should link me to the good stuff

one BB article: [link]

SYTYCD: If they must have only one show a week, I'd much prefer that they do the eliminations at the end of the show as they did last year. I doubt Nigel would give up the drama of doing the eliminations on TV. He'd never put them online. I think if a couple got eliminated, they'd probably just eliminate that number, no? There would be no point making them dance if they were both out anyway. I don't have a problem with how the judges use the save because its been that way since they started doing it on this show. And while I do think they use it to prop dancer sometimes (like with Jade last night) they also have used it in the past to keep dancers around who were actually really good but just not connecting with the audience for some reason. I was really glad to see them send Alan to safety last night, for example. I think they often biff who they boot off but that's more because America tends to not send the right people to the bottom, IMHO. And yeah, that's as a result of a lot of egregious judge pimping, but that's a whole other problem. In sum, no results show is crap. Bring me my two nights of dance!

BB: I read some of the stuff the one girl said, the model? Amazing. Does she not know she's on camera all the time? I mean, really? In 2013? Wow.