Caitlin and Jason: Lyrical Jazz
Mandy Moore is giving them a chance to show off what they know.  There are no aliens, no Bollywood bits, just lots and lots of jazz stuff.  Jason has done away with the open shirt and decided to remove the whole damn thing for his final dance with Caitlin.  By my count, this gives him a 67 percent shirtless rating, which has  to be a record for this show.  It's lyrical and jazzy and, as Mandy Moore said, it's a kitchen sink routine, which means it has a whole lot of stuff, but no real story or connection.  Tyce greatly appreciates Jason's piece of work.

Jeanine and Phillip: Jive
Russian folk dance and the jive?  Phillip must have really pissed off the Sorting Hat this week.  Phillip plays a sailor who returns from duty and his girlfriend is being a tease, which is actually a very mean thing.  Jeanine is OK, but once again, Phillip is not a very good dancer.  He's an amazing popper and locker, but he can't dance another style to save his life.  Nigel calls it the best Phillip has done outside of his own style, which is a lot like calling it the least smelly turd.  Nigel and Mary make a pact that, if they're in the bottom three, there's no way they would send Jeanine home, so she must be feeling pretty good about herself.  Tyce compliments the package.  Taken out of context, everything Tyce says is dirty.

Randi and Evan: Samba
There's a lot of gyrating, so it's yet another routine about Randi's booty.  Somehow they pull off the sexy, steamy, jungle-like samba.  Well, that's what I thought, but Nigel has strong reservations about how hot it was.  I'm mostly won over because there's a moment where Evan stares at Randi's shaking butt, and I never knew choreography could include callbacks.  It was perfectly fine, but the judges seem to have higher standards for these two when they're out of their element than they do for Phillip.

Janette and Brandon: Jazz
They get Wade Robson to choreograph, so clearly the deck is heavily stacked in their favor this week.It's about two thieves, and Brandon is in love with Wade.  It's fun and quirky and, as expected, the choreography is so insanely good that you would have to be actively bad to make it look anything less than awesome.  I know these two are great dancers, but having Wade choreograph anything at this point is unfair, because it gives whatever couple gets them a huge advantage.  It's good, but honestly, I think their first routine was better.


Well, that does it for another performance, so now it's left to America.  Brandon, Janette, Melissa, Ada and Jeanine are all guaranteed to be around next week, but I'd say any of the other five might go.


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