Once again, this episode is super late, just like Teen Moms. There are only a handful of us still watching these shows but I am determined to finish both series out to the bitter end. I won’t be able to do Teen Mom until sometime after Tuesday since I can’t record it at the time it airs, and the reruns are not until midday Monday or Tuesday. So now, for those of us still hanging in there, it is time to start yet another two-part episode.
It’s just Brynn and the minis who show up to rehearsal at ALDC. Abby is living in the storeroom full of t-shirts and empty takeout boxes. When the moms go to look for her, the camera shoots her in an oversized t-shirt without a bra. She’s pissed already. I have to say if I was looking at spending ten months or so in prison I would be pissed too. Every time I watch this show I wonder if she is watching it in prison with her new friends. I seem to remember hearing she is not actually making friends in prison and had to be moved to a slightly more restrictive unit.
Anyway, Abby screams at the cameras that this is her bedroom and they have to get out. She puts her hand over the lens of the camera. She tries to take the camera away from the cameraman and we see him leaving with the camera looking disgusted.
This week the older, former ALDC girls are rehearsing at 8 Step Dance Academy, I believe it is the first time they have rehearsed at that studio. Chloe will be dancing with her old friends again under the team name, The Irreplaceables. The name is clearly a stab at Abby who constantly screams that everyone is replaceable! The older moms are pissed that Ashley went back to Abby and call her a traitor.
Aisha Francis will be choreographing for ALDC defects this week, she has worked with Beyonce as a dancer and plans to give the girls a more modern, womanly group routine. She uses the word “burlesque.” She has worked with Nia on a routine before. This group has never won when they danced without Abby. So that is their lofty goal.
After Abby takes a shower and gets in hair and makeup, she shows up to train the young ones like nothing happened. She is incredibly hurt that she worked with the juniors for five years and they bailed on her. Abby is done with the whole pyramid thing. She says that is because it doesn’t work anymore. The unspoken part of the explanation is that you can’t make a pyramid with four dancers.
Chloe is nervous about dancing for the first time in heels. She’s also not excited about the racy choreography. Christi picks a fight with Camille because she doesn’t know who she is. The OG moms don’t want Camille there. The younger moms call Camille and tell her that the older moms are trying to get her out.
The new choreographer is tough. Remember when Abby said she was tough because that is how future auditions would be? Well this lady is highly critical of the group calling them dry and “very bubble gum.”
Elianna has a semi-religious lyrical solo. Abby seems pleased with it. Lili is doing a very technical contemporary solo. Abby yelled about dance a lot. This pisses off the other moms. Abby leaves rehearsal early to look for a boy for the group dance.
The new boy dancer, Darrion has been brought in for the group dance. The mothers make horrible ageist remarks about his mother. Oh no! The group dance is “Where have all the children gone.” It’s very dark and I hate it. It looks like Darrion is going to lead the group dance. The moms are PISSED.
Kendall has a meltdown and pulls herself out of her solo. She doesn’t want to say why. She says in her talking head that she just wants to concentrate on the difficult group dance and she can’t do a solo in addition. Kalani decides the same thing. They only want to enter the group dance. Aisha lays into the girls again about the group dance. Chloe breaks down in tears.
All the moms meet for drinks, but Ashlee bails on meeting. It was supposed to be Camille and Ashlee meeting to talk. Ashlee stirred up the shit and then didn’t show up. Camille ends up calling all the young girls moms fame whore. All the brawling happens at a gay bar. It’s too insane to recap. And by too insane to recap I mean I am too busy looking at the hot gay guys mocking them. Then Christi SHOVES Yolanda! But Yolanda has clearly been warned after the time she choked someone a couple of weeks ago and she just walks away.
We end with scenes of the older girls struggling with their group dance. It looks fake to me. I predict they will win. The moms are very disrespectful to Aisha. She screams at them and starts peppering her rants with lots of fucks. She appears to walk out.
Next Week: It’s all about the Dance Moms brawls at the competition. And Abby and the younger moms are appalled by the slutty dance, so that reinforces my feeling it probably wins.
The only cast member I like is Abby.
Those moms and brats are beyond annoying. When Christi pushed Yolanda, had it not been at a fun looking gay bar, it would have been stoopid, lol. Christi is such trash and Chloe I could cry every time I see her, don’t know why, probably because she’s always so nice, it’s gotta be hard to make your mom happy and do something where she is guaranteed to be embarrassed. Love AbbyLeeMiller, and will hope she is doing fine.
I think Abby truly cares about her students and I wish her the best also. I can only hope we see a whole lot less of Moms and a lot more of the girls who will be working with Gianna. The older girls are too young for that trashy dancing. They need to be at least 18 to be hoochie dancing. Shame on their moms for allowing this to occur. I love the minis, they are so cute and it is heartwarming to watch them dance. Nothing heartwarming or entertaining about screeching moms, Jill and Holly are the worst. I am tired of the older girls..I made Dance Moms popular…attitude. No you didn’t, Dance Moms made you popular.
Thank you for continuing to recap Dance Moms and Teen Moms. I enjoy coming to Tamara Tattles and reading your recaps and comments. Love the purple pen too.
It’s so easy to forget, and perhaps part of the dynamics, the show was supposed to be about the MOM’s.
Abby took that from them in a sense. She also made them when they expected to be the stars (which they always wanted to) can’t help but lol and think about at times.
What do the other moms and girls have against Camille and Camryn? Camille usually is relatively quiet and Camryn’s a great dancer.
Just being stupid. Failing horribly at it I must say. They think the original girls are special. Just moms being bitches, teaching their daughters how to. Camille and Camryn’s
treatment Holly should have quit. But she is a momager now so ????. I REALLY DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY CHRISTI IS HBIC.
The script calls for the moms to be bitches. Most of them already were. Holly was the one exception for many seasons but she is a bitch now as well.
And I forget as well. The mom’s have the show because they are such bitches. Seems like Abby doesn’t let them, that’s the fun of it all, to me.
Abby Lee miller is where she should be. In jail. She broke the law and is serving her time. Here’s hoping I never have to see her ugly mug again. I am glad the show is cancelled. I don’t want ALM to make another penny from TV.
Oh I haven’t heard that it is cancelled. I’m hoping she keeps going when she gets out.
I agree that Abby committed crimes and deserves to do some time. I think the sentence was fair, that said, she is no Teresa Giudice. She did not steal from anyone. She simply was trying to restructure her repayment to her creditors and in the process committed a felony by lying about her income an then hiding income from the government regarding off shore payment.
She committed Bankruptcy Fraud and Tax Fraud and has fully repaid the government. Unlike Teresa who walked into banks and lied about being employed MULTIPLE TIMES, falsified W2 forms and personally told mortage officers verbally that she had several different jobs she never had, and failed to pay her debts to a long line of people despite getting millions of dollars in loans from her lies.
There are degrees to fraud and Abby Lee was at the bottom of the totem pole and will only do like a month and a half less time than Teresa.
TT- agree what TG did was wayyyyy worse and was hurting other people and her sentence should have been much much longer. I have nothing nice to say about TG, so I am going to not say anything else about her. As far as ALM, she pushes my buttons. Her abusive ways with children cannot be called coaching, instructing or anything else other than cruel and unusual punishment. No editing in the world can come out of thin air to create the amount of yelling, screaming, degrading and demoralizing she perpetrated on those children over the years. Yes, I understand it’s on the parents to remove their children from such a toxic environment, please don’t go down that path. I love the dances, I loved the children, occasionally I loved the ridiculous moms interactions, but in the end for me, ALM was too much.
Is this still on?
Thanks for the recap TT! Like you, I am watching until the bitter end!
I too am here to the bitter end. I love Abby, used to love Holly, hated all the other moms except that girl Asia’s mom, the good sane Christi. Chloe’s mom is such a piece of work.
Smh
I went back and was watching some of the really early seasons this weekend. I forgot how cruel Abby was mostly to Brook,Paige,Chloe and Nia. It if was being strict for reasons related to dance I wouldn’t say much. But she was just mean to them. The moms back then weren’t nearly as big of bitches as they are now but rather mother hens protecting their kids. Now I find the moms more disgusting than Abby and her behavior.