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The Kherington perma-smile was still there during the Paso Doble, just dialed down a bit in wattage. She swapped it out for an Ed Grimley like cartoonish sneer for the last part of the routine, but that's really six of one, half a dozen of the other - it's still fake. After waiting for their first clunky drop to actually finish (I thought a body part got caught on one of the capes or something, but they just stopped part way through because Twitch sucks at lifts and drops), I was treated to the worst Paso Doble to ever hit the SYTYCD stage, although Twitch was the problem for most of it, lumbering around like Frankenstein's Monster and hip hopping through part of it. Kherington didn't inspire anything other than bleh. There was one bit of actual emotion from Kherington, and it happened after the judges actually criticized Twitch. She looked pissed. So it appears her faces are: pageant smile, Ed Grimley face, and bitch face. Collect them all!

Gev & Courtney had Cicley & Olisa hip hop routine, and I checked out half way through. Boring. Just to note, Courtney is a Knicks City Dancer, so she does Jazz/Hip Hop dancing professionally. Gev is a breaker and doesn't really do hip hop choreography, so no one should be surprised that Courtney out-danced Gev here. That said, I really find this couple to be uninteresting. They don't suck, but they haven't done anything memorable.

I like Mandy Moore's contemporary routines waaay more than her jazz shit (the Gev/Courtney one from week two was really good as well but not well executed). The thing is, Jessica dances just as heavy as Kourtni, and she just doesn't have the lightness to match Will. I know he's supposed to be dragging her, but it looked like he really exerted himself doing so (the same thing happened during their Tango). If Katee did this with Will, it would have absolutely rocked the house.

Whoever this Edward Simons guy is, they should keep him. For a smooth waltz (a notoriously boring dance) it was entertaining (one of the issues with this dance is that the music alone will put you to sleep). I was surprised at how graceful Comfort looked, getting full extension, pointing her toes, and extending her fingers. It wasn't AWESOME (more like a really good DWTS routine), but my eyes didn't glaze over like usual. The one spinning lift that reversed had a rocky transition, but that move alone was more interesting than all the other smooth waltzes combined.

Poor Matt. Kourtni bogs him down again (she didn't spin so much as turn slowly) and their first big lift appeared to be screwed up (it looked like it was supposed to be showier and more intricate, but Kourtni lost her pose and dropped her legs while Matt had to keep spinning to stay with the music). She either doesn't care or is struggling so much with the choreography that she doesn't finish her moves. Admittedly, Matt wasn't that great, but she doesn't give him anything to work with.

This was the first Katee and Josh stumble, a slow, halting west coast swing choreographed by Benji Schwimmer. The tricks were either uninteresting or poorly executed, and Josh looked lost throughout. Too much stopping to pull face for my tastes.

Gev and Courtney were uninteresting again. A Broadway routine with such seriously sucky acting that it made me think I was watching a high school musical. That's "a high school musical", not High School: The Musical. Again, these two are bland as hell. If she wasn't pretty and he couldn't land on his head, they wouldn't be here at all.