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Welcome back, Dance Moms nation. It’s been a long 24 hours we’ve spent apart, huh? On tonight’s episode, Abby is still wearing her mod Halloween costume and it’s time for the annual Abby Lee Dance Company’s annual dance concert, which shall not be called a recital. Also, apparently someone has gone after the children’s knees. Caaathy! Were you trying to pull a Harding/Kerrigan on Abby’s team? Also, holy Hannah, look how tall Chloe and Brooke have gotten! Abby wants to do the pyramid quickly. I’m all for it. Paige is bottom of the bottom, because of this: In Paige’s defense, Abby […]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dance Moms — now with 80 percent more filler. This time around, we have Abby giving her two cents about stuff that has happened thus far in Season 3. Stuff we have already covered in the Chatter debacles a couple of weeks back, but with no one to sass back. Also, she resurrected the Flotsam Necklace for the occasion, so that’s nice. We start out by discussing how Christi has been jealous of Maddie since Maddie sprung from the womb, and segue into rehashing the “two girls, one solo” deal. Maddie does add way more […]

So we’re finally back to business in Pittsburgh, Dance Moms nation. Well, all except for Asia and Kristie. But Abby’s home from L.A. and wanting to know if the gang missed her. Yeeeeessssss, say the girls. Nooooooothing, say the moms. Abby says the feelings are mutual. As if they didn’t know it, Abby tells the girls that she was away doing Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition, which will make her an even better teacher and dance instructor. She wants to know why Maddie was the only one who took advantage of the opportunity to come out and see her do that. […]

Sorry for the belated recap, Dance Moms fans. I didn’t tune in last night and it took me a while to fire up the thingie on the Lifetime web site to get the job done today. But I did. Because I promised you I would. JC, Superstar Executive Producer starts out by asking a very L.A.-tan Abby why she went straight to being a choreographer without stopping at dancer first and Abby touts her creds. Then he asks her if she always dreamed of being famous. “I was always a star in my own mind — it just took everybody else […]

Anybody else wondering what sort of nonsense has led to our doing a season-finale-type recap show only four episodes into the second half of Season 3, Dance Moms nation? Were Cathy and Abby too busy to film this week’s episode? Did 10tensity Dance suddenly close up shop? What gives? To launch Dance Moms Chatter Part 1, Jeff Collins, Executive Producer Superstar — who’s sporting a snappy new GQ  ’do — says we fans just can’t get enough of the drama. Oh yes, we can, JC. Yes, we can. But to feed our supposed addiction, we start out with a collection […]

I dunno, Dance Moms fans. This season is starting to feel like the tail end of the school year, where there’s nothing left to learn, your best friends have already ditched out on vacation, the teachers are substitutes and we’re mostly killing time while the sun shines elsewhere. I’m getting crabby. Well, worse crabby. And there’s no official final bell in sight freeing me to a different playground. Once again we start out in sunny California, where Maddie is practicing the solo she will perform on Season 2 of Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition (most probably a September premiere). Abby says […]