Give Me My Remote says:
As I’ve said before, it’s so difficult to send dancers home this early because many of them have not really had the opportunity to show America what they’re truly capable of. But the rules are the rules.
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Roger Caitlin at the Courant:
The trouble this season is that all the couples are so good, judges are beside themselves trying to come up with even the most benign criticisms. It will get a whole lot more difficult – and unfair, as the show goes on.
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TVGrapevine recaps:
To me, everyone's solos were wonderful, and based on them, no one deserves to go home. While the judges deliberate, we are "treated" to a performance by some guy I've never heard of, Daddy Yankee, I think they said his name was, and I don't like it at all.
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The LA Times CalendarLive.com on couple chemistry:
...Hok Konishi and Jaimie Goodwin, are excellent dancers but just don't seem like either one is getting very much from the other. Jessi Peralta and Pasha Kovalev seem to be a hot couple in the making, with their believable flirty yet sexy jazz dance from Wednesday night. Maybe the couple that most exemplifies the ideal relationship on the show is Sabra Johnson and Dominic Sandoval: There doesn't seem to be any indication that the two would even have any basis for a romantic relationship, but together on the dance floor they just scream cuteness, sassiness and enthusiasm. They seem to be having fun out there with each other. Sort of like Apolo Anton Ohno and Julianne Hough on "Dancing With the Stars" — and we all know where that got them. (They won.)
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We disagree, but TVBlend has an interesting take:
The reason Jessi and Pasha ended up in the bottom three this week is simple, the choreography was too weird and not good enough. The dancing was clearly there, and that’s why the judges may have been disappointed. But the general audience is watching for what they enjoy, and that was just strange. The other two couples were not a surprise at all. Shauna, Jimmy, Faina and Cedric all deserved to be where they were.
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From Inside The Box writes:
I'm amazed that the same people produce American Idol and Dance, because whereas Idol turns in one excruciatingly bloated results show after another, Thursday's Dance episode just sped by with ample tension and energy, as well as lots and lots of gettin' down. It doesn't hurt that Cat Deeley, clad in a fetching lemon custard dress, is everything I want in a non-Phil Keoghan/Jeff Probst reality TV host -- she's enthusiastic, playful and silly. It also didn't hurt the suspense that Thursdays results were so very odd.
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