The Star-Ledger's Robert Johnson can't abide anything about SYTYCD, on TV or in live performance:
"So You Think You Can Dance," the hard-hitting Fox reality series, arrived at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford Saturday, replete with shouting and frenzy. Whether there's anything authentic about the dance contests reenacted here is quite beside the point. Reality is whichever lie the producers at Fox want you to swallow.
Perhaps the show's title should be "So You Think This Is Dance" But then viewers, not contestants, would have to do the thinking, and that's the last thing the broadcaster wants. The show, now in its third season on television and making a graceless transit from the small screen to the stage, is utterly without merit. Showcasing acrobatic stunts and the intensity of the dancers' muscular contractions, it delivers jolts of electricity relentlessly like 2 1/2 hours of shock therapy.
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