the hip hop was an absolutely atrocity.

Jesse, maybe you are right, but I've seen other Russian dances that are much better, so I just thought the choreo was bad.

Definitely everything about it was terrible. I'm willing to call it a group effort!

but I've seen other Russian dances that are much better, so I just thought the choreo was bad.

I haven't tracked down the intro on youtube to confirm, yet, but last night I thought that in that tape they showed a number of things that didn't end up being in the dance. I suspect that whatever they had choreographed got scrapped when Phillip couldn't handle it and thus we got the judges harping on how easy it was.

I think the two booted tonight will be Evan and Caitlin. The producers want Phillip to be in the top ten so he can go on tour this fall, and I personally think that Jeanine outshines him so much that they'll both be safe this week.

Thinking about Top Chef, a comment elsewhere about Suzanne Tracht and Anita Lo got me thinking about why there aren't more badass female chefs on TV. I think it's because they don't have time to fuck around and be cute! They're too busy putting out badass food and running restaurants! Due to it being 1000 times harder for a woman to be taken seriously as a badass.

Anyway, I'm glad to see the ladies represent on TC:M.

Thinking about Top Chef, a comment elsewhere about Suzanne Tracht and Anita Lo got me thinking about why there aren't more badass female chefs on TV. I think it's because they don't have time to fuck around and be cute! They're too busy putting out badass food and running restaurants! Due to it being 1000 times harder for a woman to be taken seriously as a badass.

Anyway, I'm glad to see the ladies represent on TC:M.

Yes, and I was happy to see the other chefs realize quite early who their real competition was.

That kind of Russian dance is really all about showing off your chops in astounding tricks. If the dancers can't do the leaps and kicks, there isn't much else the choreographers can give them. It's just not something you can tone down and still have it be itself.

How do they do the costuming for the choreographed numbers? I had assumed that it was provided by the show, but the judges commenting on wardrobe choices make me think that it's under more of the contestants' control than I thought.

Well just in general, culinary schools are male dominated. Then to go to the externships, where the sexism is pretty heavy - and they whole 7 day a week job and late nights as a factor in possibly having a family. I'd think female chefs would need a stay-at-home partner if they wanted a family.

Watching SYTYCD now. I kind of want Janette to win it all. She is just on FIRE in everything. And I loved the whole "I want to be a banker" piece they did with her a couple of weeks back. Made of awesome!

Janette is a superstar. She is so fierce. Jeanine is also made of win. I hated pretty much everything about that Russian dance last night, but I did think that she did her level best to commit to the dance and turn it out when she was on her own. I also think that modified pot stirrer they did was a lot harder than it looked, especially given Chbeeb's weak partnering skills overall. I'd bet folding money that she was having to do a lot of work to hold that position and muscle around those turns while not being pulled off center by Phillip. I wouldn't mind if either of those two won, but I think without a push from the judges that a boy will win again this year, even though the girls are so much better. It took a season long, concerted effort by the judges to push Sabra to the win and I haven't seen anything like that pimping this year.