Last Dance for Jessica & Jaymz

It’s results night on So You Think You Can Dance?, and it somehow feels anticlimactic. Go figure.

The big group routine this week was my favorite so far. I liked the choreography (although I could have done without the constant mugging for the camera), and appreciated how Benji was paired with Heidi (his cousin) front and center.

We found out the bottom three relatively early in the show (thank you, producers, for at least attempting to not drag this out!). No surprise that Benji & Donyelle and Natalie & Musa were both safe. And “poor” Dmitry finally got a reprieve with Ashlee and was safe as well. Jessica & Jaymz, Heidi & Ryan, and Allison & Ivan filled out the bottom three, and I’m not really surprised at all.

I keep trying to pick who will go home before they actually dance their solos. And even though I keep getting it wrong, I don’t see how their solos can save Jessica & Jaymz. Jessica’s solo was good (the toe shoes on that stage were a huge risk), but she looks like she is dancing in her underwear (and hey, maybe the judges will like that…). But Jaymz’s was some sort of strange bull fighter thing…maybe the judges will like that as well. Heidi’s solo was excellent – she will move on for sure. I didn’t like Ryan’s solo, but you could tell that he has quite a bit of dance training. Allison’s solo was also good – you could tell how much of a better dancer she is than Jessica. And even though I’m not a fan of the style of dance, Ivan’s solo was also really good. This is so the end of the road for Jessica & Jaymz.

So, after a performance by some guy hoping to sell CDs (and do people really even buy CDs anymore, or just download songs?), the judges said goodbye to Jessica & Jaymz. If only everything was this easy.