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America's Best Dance Crew is boring me so far this season
by Jason Hughes, posted Aug 24th 2009 10:04AM
America's Best Dance Crew is three weeks into its new season, and it's still kind of boring. It's gotten so bad, that this week as host Mario Lopez was declaring safe crews, I realized that I'm not recognizing most of them right away. So You Think You Can Dance had the same problem this summer; nobody dynamic really jumping out for the longest time. America doesn't seem to know who to vote for either, because their "safe" crews each week look like they're being drawn out of a hat. Just this week, the bottom two crews by America's vote gave the best two performances of the night by a landslide.
So, while lesser crews move on, one of the best two groups of the night is gone. This season, the regional breakdown was four crews from the West Coast, four crews from the East Coast, and Southern Movement. All alone representing the South and for the second time in three weeks, Southern Movement found themselves in the bottom two.
They were joined by Rhythm City, there for the first time. Other than Southern Movement, no other crew has been in the bottom two or three more than once, which pretty much sealed their fate. It also indicates that America still hasn't latched onto any favorites.
Particularly telling is that judge Shane Sparks effectively called Southern Movement's performance last week flawless. But, as they incorporate Southern line dance movements into their routines, he wanted to find things bad to say about them. He just couldn't.
Again this week, Southern Movement gave a great performance, as did Rhythm City. While the rest of the crews struggled to effectively incorporate the martial arts challenge into their choreography, both of America's least favorite crews brought power, diversity and energy to their pieces. I so wanted to have the judges just break the rules and eliminate someone else completely.
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