I can't believe my season is over! Who am I going to yell at next week?
I know this recap is a bit late, but I wasn’t home during Dance Moms last night, so I wasn’t able to live tweet or give an instant recap. That also goes the same for Dance Moms: Miami, which is sad considering I was looking forward to that. Luckily with the magic of DVR, I was able to watch Dance Moms today, and will watch Miami tonight.
The girls were still preparing for their audition to the Joffrey Ballet School this week, while Abby decided to bite off more than she could chew (no pun intended) by also attending the Starbound Dance Competition. Why not, right? I mean it’s normal to have 9-10 year olds memorize three completely new dances a week… nothing could go wrong!
Before Starbound, the crew made it to NY for the Joffrey audition, and no episode would be complete without Cathy making her appearance. I understand the show needs drama to keep people watching, but I think the Cathy aspect is getting a little old. The only redeeming quality of showing Candy Apples is that Kendall still makes appearances (until she re-joins Abby Lee, which I believe happened at some point after this season ended).
At the Joffrey audition, it basically went like this:
- Cathy shows up, decides to act younger than any dancer on the show and start nagging Abby within minutes.
- The judges were not at all impressed by the “tricks” the girls can do. It’s understandable, I’m sure no ballet school cares about hand stands and flips. Just different styles. Needless to say, that immediately eliminated all the girls except Chloe and Maddie.
- Candy Apples also auditioned, and I did get a kick out of the judge asking why the girl had on so much makeup for an audition. I thought I was the only one who noticed how much makeup those girls pack on.
- All the mothers, Abby Lee, and Cathy completely embarrassed both dance studios and themselves by arguing in the hall right outside the audition. One of the judges had to come outside to tell them to stop. Completely disgraceful and selfish, they should be ashamed after re-watching how foolish they looked.
After all that drama, it came down to one person receiving a summer scholarship to Joffrey, and that is…
Chloe!
A huge congrats to Chloe, and hopefully she has a fantastic summer.
Naturally that didn’t sit well with the usually poised Maddie, who threw a little tantrum inside the Starbound rehearsals. This resulted in Melissa taking away her phone for 10 days, and Mackenzie cracking up over it.
Of course, Christi probably could have taken the call in private, let alone put it on speaker so the entire room can be disappointed. I know she was excited, but minutes before a competition is probably not the greatest time to crush the dreams of all the girls in the room. This probably hurt Maddie the most because she felt she had a really good chance at also getting a scholarship, and it clearly had an effect on her solo routine.
It's always painful to see one of the dancers upset
Right in the middle of her routine, Maddie forgot what she was doing, turned around and ran off stage. Right away she knew she messed up and begged to go back on, but unlike the competition in Florida with Nia, she was not allowed to do-over, and it’s precisely the message Abby was trying to drill into the girls.
Abby then decided to clearly show her favoritism by crying non stop over this, which really upset the mothers. She didn’t congratulate Chloe on her first place finish, or the scholarship (that we seen), and just sat there in silence as the mothers drilled into her about being a hypocrite and showing favoritism. Then, Abby decided to take her ball and go home. At the end of the episode, we were left to believe that Abby was done teaching and the girls were left on their own. Hint: They’re not. Abby was just being an attention w**re and wanted everything focused on her. Whatever. It was a good season finale, and I will be announcing a Dance Moms season 3 as soon as I hear about it!
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Tags: Abby Lee, Chloe Lukasiak, dance moms, Mackenzie Ziegler, Maddie Ziegler, Melissa Ziegler, Nia Frazier
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Chloe is my favorite and by watching their performances she definitely deserved to win that scholarship. It is sad that Maddie is the only child Abby cares about or shows any sort of feelings toward. Hopefully Chloe can still be happy and enjoy that scholarship. I wish Abby would realize that these children want her approval and attention and how she acts (positive and negative)greatly affects them.
I think Abby did a disservice by leaving when things got tough. She actually caused scars for Maddie with her departure. How can Maddie think anything but, “OMG! I forgot my routine and it made Abby leave! She really must hate me!” Abby would have done better to stick it out until the end to show Maddie that it would take MORE than ONE LITTLE GIRL forgetting her routine to run off Abby! I understand the desire to bolt! But you show what you are made of when the going gets rough!
A few comments. When Abby and Melissa are not in charge, then Chloe has a fair chance. Maddie is a good dancer in contempory ONLY, she is just ok in jazz. Melissa will do anything to have Maddie win i.e. take judges out to lunch, something to drink or all kinds of favors for Abby. Also, she said so last season. Watch the finale. I would not put it past Mellisa to give Jill (Kendals mom) copies of Chloe’s dance routines to try to make her fail. The mothers are not jealous of Maddie they are resentful of all the extra attention and lessons Maddie gets. It should all be equal. I believe Abby and Melissa are jealous when Chloe wins. Just look and how she treats Chloe when she wins and look at their facial expressions and comments. Also, Abby makes every kind of excuse when Chloe wins. I could gone on forever but enough for now. Congrats Chloe you deserve it especially with Abby and Mellissa always trying to sabatoge your dancing.
the new season of the original dance moms is starting in June! just thought id let you know!
this WHOLE show is fake, we compete against candy apples all the time AND BEAT THEM. just saying… they aren’t that good
Maddie also got a scholarship… they just didn’t show it.
W0W!!! Some real hating on my Maddie here!!! I don’t understand why Nia got to go again when she forgot her dance & Maddie didn’t… Everybody is going to pick their fav no matter what the subject is and that’s natural, but if any of you Maddie haters could sit across a table from me & and say with a str8 face that “Any” of the other dancers is better then Maddie it wouldn’t mean you believed it, it would just mean you’re a good liar!!! Maddie gets more attention because Maddie wins, period!!! I like all the girls for one reason or another but Maddie stands out for many reason’s the main one is she’s the best dancer in any building she enters!!! I bet all you Maddie haters enjoyed Christi keeping her phone on speaker when she knew it was hurting Maddie… I haven’t read anywhere where any of you had a problem with that!!! My bad, its ok if it’s Maddie getting hurt but let the Heaven’s fall if it were done to Chloe!!! I don’t want to see any of them hurt but it crushed me to see Maddie hurt that way, it was a low class thing to do and it was “WRONG”!!! I would have been pissed at Mellisa if she had done that to Chloe!!! I’m not gonna dog any of the girls I think they’re all courageous, talented & adorable!!! But like I said everybody picks a fav and mine is Maddie so if you can’t say anything nice about her then just don’t say anything!!!