It's down to 12 on So You Think You Can Dance, so after tomorrow night we'll have our Top 10.  Cat Deeley is in the house, I'm watching, and Mary Murphy's vocal cords are ready to make your ear drums bleed.  This...is So You Think You Can Dance!

Cat Deeley is either wearing her hair up or she got it cut quite short.  Either way, I prefer it the old way, but she's still the hottest woman on TV..

Guest judge = Tyce Diorio.  Me = Happy!

Every couple is doing two dances, so there's no time to waste.

Melissa and Ada: Disco
They boogie all over the floor, and Ada is really shining tonight, while Melissa finally takes a bit of a backseat.  It's no surprise Melissa is good as she was probably in college back when disco was big.  Get it, because she's super old.  Tyce gives Mary an "AMEN!" when she asks, which means he's going to be enabling her madness all night long.

Kayla and Kopono: Contemporary
This is a Mia Michaels routine about addiction, so it's heavy on the emotion, especially for Kopono, whose family was almost destroyed by addiction.  Once again, my hatred of contemporary dance is put to the test, because this is absolute genius and I'll say right now that Mia Michaels should probably win another Emmy for this.  Kopono is the drug keeping Kayla, the addict, down.  He's powerful, and she's passionate and perfect as the addict, no matter how much hair she has.  Best routine of the night.  Best routine of the season.  Probably one of the best routines in So You Think You Can Dance history.

Caitlin and Jason: Foxtrot
This an American, jazzy foxtrot about a gangster and his moll.  Yawn.  Going after that addiction routine is hard, and the fact that Jason smiles the whole time is off-putting, since he's supposed to be a tough gangster.  Tyce and Mary have a snap-off that he wins easily before batting his eyes at Jason  like a tween girl at a Jonas Brothers concert.

Jeanine and Phillip: Russian Folk Dance
In Soviet Russian, dance thinks it can do you.  This is weird, because they kind of look like those two people who come out of a cuckoo clock and do a little dance on the hour.  The problem is that Russian folk dance is a specific skill that's completely different from other dances, so I'm going to be more lenient on Phillip's relatively weak dancing.  Nigel complains about the really crappy, childlike choreography without outright insulting the choreographers.  I think it would've been better if the music was the theme song from Tetris.


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