When I was home over the summer, I had the joy of watching "So You Think You Can Dance" along with the rest of the nation. A campy show, no doubt, but full of talent on all sides, whether it was the dancers or the choreographers. The one downfall with that show seemed to be a few of the judges, whose British accents and witch cackles were enough to have me running for the Montana wilderness.
Little did I know that Mary Murphy looks like the Queen of England compared to what invaded my living room last night. "Dance War," which the nurse taking my blood yesterday noted should be something I enjoy (she said this far too close to my face, and with a look on her face that was more gopher than human; it was a sign) premiered on ABC. Having never tuned in for a single moment of "Dancing With The Stars," save for Marie Osmond's collapse which I watched on YouTube, my only experience with host Carrie Ann Inaba was when I was parked on the couch during my first month of being sick as I played soccer mom and watched "The View." She was a guest host on the show, and far less ingratiating than what I discovered last night.
Standing in my kitchen, preparing (or rather, watching my parents prepare) the first meal of my new elimination diet (which involves removing anything even remotely delicious from my mouth), I turned on ABC and prepared to be dazzled. I made it ten minutes into the show, then curled up in the corner in fetal position and proceeded to pull out my hair.
The powers that be appear to be scraping the bottom of the talent barrel for this show, which aims to find a double-threat (lame) who can sing and dance...at the same time? Only, most of the people appeared to be no better at dancing or singing than George Bush. On top of the insulting talent level (granted, I watched ten minutes) the main reason for the onset of psychotic behavior was due to the judges Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli (that can't be his real name...or his real accent, for that matter). Watching him dance with some of the young contestants was as gross as thinking about (an overly tan, non-descript European accented) Santa Clause having sex.
Needless to say, I will not be tuning into this show ever again. Did anyone else catch it? Did it get any better after the first twenty minutes?
i couldn't have put it better myself, matt.
it was truly vomitous.
Posted by: susan kim | January 08, 2008 at 06:52 PM
it makes me upset that the show is called "dance wars".. it's clearly not just dance, or good dancing.
Posted by: liz | January 08, 2008 at 09:48 PM
George Bush can dance or sing?
Posted by: Larry | January 09, 2008 at 08:55 AM
Check out the link by George Bush's name, Larry. You shall see his dancing abilities.
Posted by: M | January 09, 2008 at 11:42 AM
No, it didn't get any better, except maybe in the live performance at the end, mainly because they used (it would be a bit of a euphemism to say "sang") that great J-Lo song, "Let's Get Loud." You might have liked a couple of the guys, particularly the sexy premed student, Zack; I did! I admit, I'm even kind of fond of ol' Bruno, as I do watch Dancing with the Stars, and I enjoy his glib, creative way with a metaphor and his over-the-top personality. But it was downright alarming seeing him dance with (or wrapped around) some of the contestants. Yikes! And other than maybe a couple of the men, you're absolutely right that they seem to be scraping the bottom of the talent barrel. I was surprised that so few decent performers were trying out; are the talented ones all saving themselves for AI and So You Think You Can Dance?
Posted by: Beth | January 09, 2008 at 11:44 AM
yes, i'm saving myself for sytycd. [= my mom said there was some girl on dance wars from the town next to mine. idk who she is though.. hmm.
Posted by: liz | January 09, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Wow. And who said white boys can't move. Do you think we'll see him on Dancing with the Stars when he loses his present job?
Posted by: Larry | January 09, 2008 at 02:57 PM
I came to your site as soon as I finished watching the 1st show tonight on Youtube just to see what you thought of it. It is shows like this that justify not owning a television set. That said, I will probably continue to watch it. I'm also a huge fan of both DWTS & SYTYCD (all compliments of Youtube).
Hopefully, you'll tell us more about this "elimination" diet. It sounds interesting.
Posted by: Chimene | January 10, 2008 at 01:30 AM