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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.17, "Week Six: Results"

Neil Patrick Harris: “I had an absolute blast last night, you sexy little minx.” Cat Deeley: “I never thought Doogie Howser would ever say that to me.” Welcome…to SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE! The night opens with a group number by choreographer Josh Bergasse, set to “Act One:

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.16, "Top 10 Perform"

Caitlynn Lawson. Jess LeProtto. Clarice Ordaz. Marko Germar. Jordan Casanova. Mitchell Kelly. Melanie Moore. Ricky Jaime. Sasha Mallory. Tadd Gadduang. It’s been a long, hard road. There have been plenty of ups and downs (not to mention some side-to-sides, and a couple of sashays) along the way. But finally,

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.15, "Week Five: Results"

I will not sing “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!” I will not sing “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!” I will not sing “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!” Welcome…to SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE! The opening group number this week is a fiery little Latin number,

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.14, "Top 12 Performance"

Well alrighty then, here we are at the last week with our established couples. After this all the surviving dancers will be split up and be repaired with a different partner AND a different All-Star dancer from previous seasons each week. So this time everything counts. This time the performances

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.13, "Week Four: Results"

The group routine that kicks of tonight’s festivities is a Bollywood number by veteran choreographer Nakul Dev Mahajan, set to the song “Kata Kata” from the RAAVAN soundtrack. Bollywood is almost always fun to watch, even when it’s not done particularly well. Fortunately the Top 14 dancers all

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.12, "Week Four: Top 14 Performance"

Due to issues with our local FOX broadcast, I actually didn’t get to see the first few minutes of this episode. Sadly this means I missed what sounds to have been a pretty great group number by the Top 7 guys; something about the seven stages of grief, choreographed

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.10, "Week Three: Top 16 Performance"

Better late than never, right? Real life did it’s best to keep this week’s recap from happening, but you just can’t keep a good dance geek down. Welcome…to SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE! One of the joys of this series each week is seeing what

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Follow-Up: It Was Called THE KILLING, What Did I Expect?

So THAT happened. I came out early on this blog to defend AMC’s latest drama The Killing, an Americanization of the Danish “Nordic Noir” series Forbrydelsen, from claims that it was too slow, too bleak, too maudlin. I expressed a desire to see a story like this played out

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.09, "Week Two: Results"

The warm fuzzy feeling of letting all Top 20 dancers survive past last week’s elimination episode inevitably had to give way to the crushing sadness of losing FOUR dancers this week. Everyone was all excited and giggly and dancing around with joy that no one had to leave the

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.08, "Week Two: Top 20 Performance...Again"

You may have noticed I never got around to posting a recap of last week’s results show. Well I’m sure by now everyone knows that there actually weren’t any results resulting from the results show. For the first time in eight season, Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe and

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.06, "Week One: Top 20 Performance"

And with that, Season 8 of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE is out of the gate! There’s a lot of ground to cover in Week One, so let’s get to it. First thing’s first, we have our first guest judge: Megan Mullally. I’m not going

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.05, "Green Mile - Top 20 Revealed"

We’ve made it! Weeks of auditions and a brutal, bloodthirsty Vegas callback elimination process have lead us here, to the fabled “green mile.” In seasons past this has meant a sort of morbid and drawn out episode of the remaining hopefuls taking the long walk down the video-lined hallway,

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.04, "Las Vegas Callbacks"

Wow. So… that happened. If you’ve never watched So You Think You Can Dance before, you may be unaware of just how brutal the Las Vegas Callbacks are. I passionately love this show and even I forget the pain and suffering involved in this stage of the competition. Basically,

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.02-03, "NY/SLC/LA Auditions"

Three hours of So You Think You Can Dance audition goodness this week. Wednesday night we got to see what Salt Lake City and New York had to offer, each giving us some good and some not-so-good. And Thursday night brought us the final auditions show, from the mythological Orpheum

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So You Think You Can Gobble: 8.01, "Atlanta/Bay Area Auditions"

Ladies and gentlemen, Cat Deeley is back! What more is there to say? The cute, sweet, adorable, cuddly (too far?) host and protective big sister we all wish we’d had returns, and just like that all is right with the world. Oh yeah, and she brought some dancers with

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So You Think You Can Gobble

Less than a week away from the premier of So You Think You Can Dance Season 8, I cannot keep my feet still…metaphorically speaking. My intention this season will be to post reviews here each week (we’ll see how that works out for me), but to kick things

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Let the Game Begin: Game of Thrones Review

Ironic that Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has found himself embroiled in an intardweb feud (not really) with Lost creator Damon Lindelof, seeing as his sword-and-sorcery-and-politics (-and-politics-and-politics-and-more-politics) epic is positively brimming with an enormous cast of characters and a complex web of interconnected stories and plotlines. I’

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It's Called THE KILLING, What Did You Expect?

AMC’s new crime drama The Killing premiered tonight with the first two episodes played back-to-back. That was probably a smart decision considering the pace this series seems set to follow. Adapted from the “Nordic noir” Danish series Forbrydelsen, the show tells the story of the murder of a young