A Brief Review of Mon. Sept.28 - Dancing with the Stars - Season 21 - ABC.

      The viewers and fans of Dancing with the Stars had a big surprise in terms of the eliminations at the end of the two hours which at times "drag" - but sometimes - people wait for the end of the show's eliminations instead of changing the channel. Kim Zolciak - a voluptuous blonde who was partnered with an outstanding dance professional Tony Devaloni - unfortunately - suffered a mild stroke at the age of 37; thank God - she will be all right - but since that couple got eliminated by default - nobody else was sent home this week.
     Lots of people were looking forward to Gary Busey finally leaving the show - according to the posts on the Facebook forum by DWTS space. He - however - surprised everybody by dancing a passable Tango with Anna Trebunskaya - his fabulous professional dancing partner. They both looked hilarious as Gomez and Morticia from "Addams Family" since the Monday night show presented the musical themes from popular TV shows.
     Tamar Braxton and Val Schmerkovski performed a terrific Tango from "Mad Men" - an advertising industry - "glorified" - soap opera which ran for many seasons until it totally ran out of steam. While we are on the subject of Tango - Alek Scarlatos and his professional partner - a good dancer named Lindsay - did a very entertaining, vampire Tango from "True Bloods".  Alek enjoys his big hero status everywhere - all over the place - and deservedly so since he and his two friends saved a lot of lives - recently - after they subdued a terrorist on an express train to Paris, France. 
       I - and several of my friends who do the entertainment reviewing - for a living - all agree that Alek Scarlatos also dances well - in addition to earning his status of an "internationally well liked - hero/role model." However as far as his dancing goes - his big boned structure distracts a bit from his dance moves. Everybody who watches DWTS remembers the 2011 champion - an ex-Pittsburgh Steeler - Hines Ward - who had a similar challenge - namely - while executing flawlessly elegant dance moves - since his massive bone structure - was getting in the way - a bit.
       Overall - tonight's show was entertaining enough so nobody switched the channel - while ABC keeps promoting the Muppets show - as if their last bottom line depended on its success.   

       One dance number - however - did not impress several of our professional reviewers - at all. Mark Ballas and his partner Alexa danced a piece from "Breaking Bad" - a popular TV drama about a teacher who "freaked out" and started to manufacture drugs in his make-shift lab thus the dancers' costumes consisted of yellow, ugly looking, hazmat (short for hazardous materials - explanation for our overseas audiences) - protective "skivvies" totally covering the dancers' bodies - with the music sounding bland and the dance moves' choreography - not looking like a good dancing at all. We couldn't believe how higly the judges praised that dance - while they scored that lame number - also - unusually high - according to many viewers expressing those kinds of views not only on YouTube's various forums but also - on the Facebook space by DWTS website.  Furthermore -the judges kept emphasizing the "finally achieved - connection" between Mark Ballas and Alexa as if their respective, massive costumes covering their entire bodies were somehow conducive to that purported "connection".                                      

       Alexa appeared surprised at first - at the judges' unusual reaction - but then she went along with them. That girl knows exactly which side of her bread slice gets - buttered.
      At any rate - don't forget to watch next Monday Oct. 5 - show and have a great week! As always - click here for our sparkling and provocative - review - next week!
    Coyright@L.Hadley and Associates - 2024