In the end, it was down to scaredy cat Haley and a hyperventilating Chloe, who looked so sad up there trying to choke back tears. To complicate matters further, each dance involves a giant, and sometimes unpredictable, prop. Trinity and JoJo will be Down and Dirty Divas, courtesy of a gentleman named Q Pittman. There have been many debates to if her method of teaching is something that should be done as she does yell a lot and other things of that nature, but that doesn't stop girls and many mothers of those girls that love to dance in going to her to see if their kids has what it takes. Rachelle says, even so, JoJo is a performer, which makes Abby look like this. Everything is on the line and every move they make counts.
Abby tells Gianna, who is used to bellowing women, that Richy and Rachelle loved her so she will dance another week. Allow me a moment on my soapbox. Just as many tune into her reality show. Ally loves the deluxe accommodations. The judges give her a standing ovation. The boys were good but I truly enjoyed watching JoJo better and I believe she was also better.
Plus, one mother's meddling threatens to send a team home. That makes Rachelle warn her that sometimes less can be more, which elicits cheers all around from the green room. She wants to choose Gianna next, but Jessalynn wants her to pick Trinity. The first pair we meet are Jessalynn and JoJo, 9, from Nebraska. Kalani chooses JoJo to pick next. Plus she might actually turn out to be a great human being. One dancer starts some drama that quickly goes global after she tells her mother she overheard other dancers saying she wished she had been eliminated.
The winner's mom gets to decide which dancers land in the bottom three, leading to new fights and some surprise allegiances. The winner's mom gets to decide which dancers land in the bottom three, leading to new fights and some surprise allegiances. Posting that a nine year old child is self centered egotistical and obnoxious is improper. Come competition day, Haley is wrecked. Richy and Rachelle leap to their feet for joy.
To complicate matters further, each dance involves a giant, and sometimes unpredictable, prop. Meanwhile, another contestant's role in the group dance forces her to share painful memories with her fellow dancers. Clearly a Lifetime memo had gone out that it was Costume Day, because even the judges had Gaga-fied themselves a little bit. Kalani gets to choose her routine and the person who gets to choose next. Will Abby be the dancer's fairy godmother. Her arch-nemesis certainly hopes it will and doesn't hesitate to say so.
Abby says she has no criticism. No one seems too excited about the dance, though. Next up is 12-year-old Arizona beauty Kalani. Manno looks fetching in shades of periwinkle. Ally is striking, but her feet need work. The pressure of the competition has the moms harping on their children and one mom even sells out her own kid to the judges for not working hard enough. A little more energy, there, JoJo.
The claws come out when one mom tries to sabotage another with dance assignments. Meanwhile, one dancer struggles with the hip-hop trio and when the judges can't decide who should go home, that can mean only one thing — a dance-off. When one mom throws another mom under the bus, things get ugly. Yes at one point I was surprise to hear JoJo say she could do better than trinity in hip hop because trinity was sent home the week before. La la la la la la … I cannot hear you talking, JoJo.
But I have raised four kids, all of whom suffered mightily for half the impertinence that has only served to score JoJo twice the camera time of other dancers. Do you love Rachelle or miss kooky Robin? Instead, thanks to the intercession of his final set of foster parents who took him at age 14 and allowed him be jailed for forging checks, Shipp defied his demons and became a leading interventionist for families and teens in crisis. To emphasize the direction of the dances this time around, Abby asked the ten remaining kids … Sarina, we hardly knew ya… to name three things about Abby that made her unique. Cindy would like to punch Abby in the face. . Put a ring on it. Everyone has grown to love Abby Lee Miller who has started her own dance company.
Rachelle says she did, too. Looking forward to the finale. We start out with everyone expressing relief at being in the Top 5 and the realization that it will only get tougher from here. Mama got sad and the little dancer could barely take a breath as she thanked everyone for the opportunity and the corrections and the— Wait. Anybody care to guess who we hear from first? Then she outright falls on her butt.
Kalani gives surprisingly good battle, backing Asia up and stopping her in her tracks. Then everybody danced like it was still only Week Two. I would never chose to do that to my kid, and if I did do that, I would know that they would be judged-especially acting like that. Meanwhile, one dancer struggles with the hip-hop trio and when the judges can t decide who should go home, that can mean only one thing. Kristie says Asia overheard Madison Forgive me, Dance Mom Nation, for I am an episode behind, having been sequestered at a hotel in Pasadena covering the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour.