My inlaws brought Dirty Jobs DVDs to the family easter. Mike Rowe: I'll be in my bunk. Bonus: mr. flea loves the show, and hasn't noticed that I am faint with lust for the host!
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Mike Rowe has that kind of appeal that other men totally don't get, I think.
brenda, I definitely agree about Katie. They were all, "I knew this was going to happen." So, then why did you cast her? And I know she was an audience vote-in, but they cast her up to that point. And so was Ben an audience vote-in and he's apparently done fine with his fitness, from that first "I've been working out with Ronnie" moment on.
Ooh, on the dance crew thing. I missed the history show. I appear to only sporadically be watching it, but since it's on eight million times I've mostly been able to keep up.
I think the dance show I watched this morning was the most recent, so yeah, it should be on 52 more times in the next 48 hours.
Jabbawookeez in SU2? Were teh the "410" crew? Cause I remember the masks, at the beginning. That was nice.
Jabbawookeez was one of the crews during the final dance battle sequence. They were wearing the same white masks and gloves look that they always wear. And throwing it down, as usual.
Jesse, I loved Kaba Modern's dance through hip hop history (especially the N'Sync shout out!). It's utter crap that they are gone and Status Quo lives to dance another day. The final two totally should've been a Kaba/Jabba battle to the death. That would've been amazing.
The judging hasn't been particularly good in Dance Crew, but I could see why SQ lasted over KM. KM hasn't been as exciting these recent weeks as they were at the beginning. I am a total fan of Jabba - so I think they will win. They have been so focused every week and really brought their all. I'm not sure I can say that about KM.
I miss Live in Color. I think they should have been in the final 3 instead of SQ.
For the final, it was that The People voted SQ in, right? Ah well.
I do like seeing that one guy who was so awesome on the So You Think You Can Dance auditions, while being totally unprepared to be on the show, do so well on this show. Also, Boston represent!
Yep, the people voted in Status Quo over Kaba and Jabba. I have actually thought that the judging on this show has been amazingly on point. They are not afraid to call the groups out when they mess up or when their choreography is not up to par. They also give props when they are due. Especially J.C. Even when I didn't agree with him, he was never afraid to bring the divo bitch attitude. And I enjoyed.
I don't think Status Quo is a terrible crew. Once they got rid of those five ridiculous hair flingers (not Fish and Chicks, the other ones) I really think there wasn't too much dead weight. It's just that over the course of the show, Status Quo has had too many weeks where one of their members (usually the one with the braids who's ostensibly the leader) just totally fuck up - forget the moves, get off count with the rest of the crew, miss a trick, etc. They were sloppy almost every week. And I found their choreography to be way too trick heavy. When they actually stopped and just danced, they often weren't together and were very, very sloppy (sloppy arms especially!). I agree that Kaba's choreography fell off a little bit during both Broadway week and the week where they had the set with all the props. But, I thought their dance last week was ridiculous and they are always super clean and synchronized.
And word on missing Live in Color. They were robbed the week they got voted off. And that was all on the judges, can't even blame it on the fans. They chose to save Fish and Chicks after Live in Color did that vampire number which was off the chain.
I really have liked the judging a lot, in what I've seen. They give constructive criticism even when they're raving about them, and certainly when they're not. And they notice things the average viewer probably doesn't, and can point it out, which is more than I can say for most vocals judges on teevee these days.
I think that they need to swap out Li'l Mama - her criticism is at times incoherent. I think JC is a little hard on them, but perhaps that serves its purpose.
The choreographer for SYTYCD is a decent judge, but I think the judges spoke WAY too highly of Br8kSk8t - who I absolutely couldn't stand.
I did not enjoy Br8kSk8t and I think they probably shouldn't have been put on the show in the first place. No matter how hard they tried to spin it, they were not, in fact a dance group any more than would have been a group of hip hop ice dancers or hip hop bicyclers or any other group who didn't primarily, you know, dance . . . on their own two feet . . . without the aid of other movement devices. But that was not the judges' fault. They didn't pick the crews who got onto the show. And once Br8kSk8t were on the show, the only thing the judges could do was comment on what they brought to the stage each week. Which objectively was very good, for what it was. Which was skating. Not dancing. But again, not the judges' fault.
ETA: I loved Lil' Mama. Thought she was a better judge than Shane and she was stupid funny and clearly enjoying herself. She was death on calling out mistakes and dancers who didn't mesh with their crews. She hated sloppiness (as do I when you're supposed to be moving as a group) and she was actually really knowledgable about dance (even when she was mistakenly calling out "ronde de jambe" like she did in the Fish and Chicks routine). I thought the judge panel, for the most part, rocked.