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Welcome back to our Dance Moms after show here on AfterBuzz TV. I am your host Brianna Fitz and I am not alone. Here. We have she is quite the under dog lover. She's a ham a supporter. It is Sarah Durham. Hi guys, it's awesome to be here. I am the underdog supporter Tamara is Out this week, but she will be back in unfortunately. Tony is no longer able to be on the panel who schedule just wouldn't allow it, but maybe he'll be able to get back in here for some gas spots will have to look forward to that later on but let's talk about this episode and what we thought what was your overall thoughts of this episode were you happy about the episode? Did you like the dances where you kind of like I could have used a little more. Yeah. I really loved Lily's dance. I thought that it was amazing. I was not as huge a fan of eliana's Dance. I'm not going to lie the water. Her dance kind of scared me a little bit. Yeah, I really questioned a beyond that. She does come up with some random dances at times but they always come out beautifully and we're gonna get into all of those dances a little bit later in the episode. I personally like I really loved the dancing in the episode but I am a little bit over the Stacy Yolanda drama. I feel like we've just dragging this thing out and over and over again, so that got a little love old for me pretty fast. But like I said guys we're going to talk. About these dances. We're going to talk about this drama between these two moms. We're going to talk about Brady being back and what that's going to do with the team. We also have some amazing news and gossip for you later on and our Diva moment segment. We're going to let you know what the biggest diva of the episode was. So let's talk first about these dances. We had our pyramid, you know, and we found you know, we got the praise from a be over the fact that they finally got their win again and that they could do this without Brady. They could do it without and I'm like on the name of the girl that left but Yolanda's kind of taking all the credit she is and she's saying that they're only winning because her daughter's back and I just don't think that that's the case. I don't think that her daughter's really brought that much to the table in terms of teamwork for sure. And obviously the Stacy Yolanda drama that's going on is hurting the kids in my opinion and I just really wonder if the team would be better off without ulanda her without. Laundromats going to be the big question. I think moving forward but she's taken all this is and this is where we kind of start to see the drama unfold and we'll get into all of Stacy and Alana just a moment, but I really want to talk about the fact that Abby brings Brady in and she also is like, you know what we're bringing JoJo in not to be on the team but in spirit and in person to help coach you guys but also you're going to do her dances and I was wondering is is the JoJo episode that we're getting because Joe just just so popular right now. Is it because she's the only original girl that's willing to come back to the show. I don't know. What were your thoughts on jojo coming in and kind of all the dances being inspired by old dances. She had done to me. It kind of seems like a reach on Abby's part. I think that they might be, you know, really trying to bump up the show with ratings and everything like that. And I think that JoJo's fan base certainly gives them like that extra boost that they I mean even Abby mentioned it throughout the episode like how many fans were there for Jojo and all of that and yeah, I think that it was kind of a reach a little bit in my opinion and I think bringing Brady back was a bit of that as well. Yeah, like I really enjoyed seeing Jojo I love you know, she's has so much character to her and her bows and she's always very true to who she is. She's never once faltered from that and she is doing really great things. You know, she has her tour that's going on I believe right now. She did a whole she babysat Kim Kardashian. But yeah, it was it did feel a little bit like force like okay, we don't know what else to do right now. Let's bring in and another factor in let's bring Brady back because we have nothing else to do right now. Exactly and the other thing about JoJo being back. All of that said is I thought she had one of the most positive like wonderful energies like of anyone there like that Vibe was awesome. But yeah, I agree with you. I did love that. She was like, oh, it's so nice. To be on this side of it you come back. You're not scared of Abby anymore. I laughed out loud at that section was like you let her know girl, but we get the fact that Ileana and Liliana are going to have solos this week. Both Based On A Jojo dance. Liliana is straighten up where she's going to be dancing completely in a straitjacket and Ileana is carry so she will have a knife and be covered in blood. Mmm. So each of them have a different kind of hurdle to overcome. And this just a going again hits the moms against each other even more. So let's talk. Let's get into these Mom's. Okay. So you all under right from the get-go is like, oh like we said the beginning she was like, this is my my daughter's the reason you guys won without her. You guys wouldn't be as good but then right away she's kind of like Taken aback by liliana's solo and gets really upset that. Everyone's talking about Liliana during the practice and the jealousy is very apparent. Yeah, and it's almost like she came in expecting Eliana to you know be exactly where she was when she left before. You know what I mean? Well, I think that's a problem with anybody that comes back to this team is that they kind of feel privileged and they think that they are entitled the things because like oh, well, we've worked With a be before you're just the new people it's that attitude and we saw it was Stacey and Liliana in the very beginning and now we're seeing it with Yolanda not so much with Ileana. She's I don't see her as much of a diva, but her mom definitely your mom is like enough for both of them for sure. Yeah. It is interesting that you mentioned that because we definitely saw that with Stacy early in the beginning that same sense of entitlement and it's things are now working out for them. And so she's getting a little bit quieter besides her spats with Yolanda. Well very quickly the strangulation comes up again the famous strangulation that Yolanda did to Stacey which I feel like we've talked about I guess it's been what two or three weeks but you'll on has been back but it was the name of one of the dances right? We have the cork it just than tired being of this show for the past couple episodes has been this strangulation and not being able to get over it. What do you think because of often on the show? We see the moms? Acting a lot more like the children then the children and the children acting a little bit more mature. So what do you think specifically about this? Do they need to let this go and just move on or is this something that they have Stacy has a right to still be upset about I think that the mom's for the sake of the kids. It's kind of like they said in this episode the moms need to bury the hatchet so to speak and move on because it's starting to affect the kids and we saw that last week and their dances and everything like that. So yeah, I think these moms need to move on and you know, let the past be the past and let their kids move forward and grow. Well the funny part of it for me. Is that how long is this show about on this is season eight and how many times have we seen Abby just persecute children for what their parents have done. So it's like you guys haven't learned at all that you just need to zip it be thankful be grateful and you know through all the faults. Of whatever you think of Abby. She does create great dancers. Yeah, we've seen this we see so many like Maddie and Mackenzie going off, you know, and I know maybe it's not the best way to go across it. But if you're putting your kids in this position, so you obviously know that this is how Abby is so either. I don't know either kind of like sit back and like be there or leave. Yeah have that option you can leave totally and people have I think it's really interesting that all of this is happening. Neighing right now later on in the season one of the beginning of the Season we saw this happen like almost immediately with giannina, you know what I mean? And then her mom learned the lesson her mom had her, you know do the dances that Abby said she needed to do eventually after a couple of times at messing up and now Gene is doing fine. You know what I mean? It's just interesting that these moms aren't learning. I agree with you. Yeah, and I mean it does make for better television to have them be at each other's throats, but I do feel bad. Bad when it gets to the point where the kids are over hearing it and when the parents are bashing the children mmm, because that's not cool. Yeah, like that's how people started this episode. Yeah, like have your beef with each other but leave the kids out of it because they don't want you're an adult wait not okay for you to be yelling at a little child, especially when it's not yours and two they already have so much to focus on so much to deal with like they don't need this and we've seen this in Steps that we've seen it in past seasons affect the kids when the parents can't get along especially because sometimes their friends with each other. So it's just sad to see for me that these kids just have to deal with this that they have to do with their moms being a little psycho much like both of their daughters dances this night, but I agree. I'm sorry just to piggyback off of that. I think that if the moms have like all of these opinions and And feel the need to say everything that they do to their kids. They should be the ones out there dancing. You know what I mean? Yeah, like at a certain point and you know besides Yolanda and Stacey we didn't really have drama from other moms this episode. There was really no other storyline. The main storyline was guys get over it. Yeah or get out. Yeah, which is exactly how I feel get over it get out choose one or the other but let's stop all this right now because I'm done with the storyline. I agree. That's something we are not done with here at AfterBuzz TV. Is you the fans and we are so thankful for you that you come back every week that you watch is that you support us that you help us do what we love you helped us become the ESPN of TV talk and to do even more for us which we would be so grateful for is just a small amount. Give us a thumbs up on YouTube. 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Hi would have fallen like I watched her do I think it was the initial stand up on like the her the first time she stood up and I just thought she was going to wipe out I saw her wavering in the rehearsals and just thought there's no way that she's gonna be able to do this in competition. And then she did Rolls without arms and all of this insane stuff and I was just blown away. Yeah. I thought she did an amazing job. I thought this was such an amazing dance it showcased her. So well she acted really well and it to like her. Her movements and her facial features were just embodiment of somebody that has lost it and yeah just not having your arms and being it. I can't imagine like I just felt bad for her face a little bit because of some of those roles but no, I thought she did a great job and I really enjoyed this dance overall. I think she definitely deserves the place will get to the awards in a second. But the place that she got I do it is a little hard for me to be like they deserve the awards like they deserve the It's based on what I've seen. Yeah, but obviously we haven't seen any of the other teams dancers. Right? Right, right. And then our second dance is Ileana for solos and she is doing carry. So they JoJo pours all the blood on her and she has this knife that she's wielding around. Would you think of Ileana stance? I my first thought actually when the blood got poured on her was oh my God, is she gonna be able to see like because it went straight into her eyes, and I was just like, oh my gosh like this is Really dangerous, but then they cleared it away and it was all good. I thought her dance was really good. It was really pretty she did a great job with what she had but I would kind of agree with maybe not quite as harshly as Abby said there was nothing super special about it. Like it was good. And I think it deserves a place that it got especially compared to Lily's dance. You know what I mean? I was just yeah it was there was no comparison in my opinion. Yeah. It was still a beautiful dance. She did a great job. She looked great her acting was amazing, but it wasn't quite to the caliber of lilies. And so I understand why Lily would win over that. I again, I'm trying to remember it was such a long time ago that like not such a long time ago, I guess but it was a while ago that Ileana was on the show. I'm trying to recall what her dancing was to then and now I would have loved like a throwback. Yeah shot of her dancing because Abby kept And making that comparison throughout the show to you. And I wonder if that's more for you know, the conflict of the show or if it's you know, if it's actually true it would have been nice as an audience member to see that yes, but she she did a beautiful job for what she did it again. Maybe it is still that I have to go back and watch maybe this still to the same level that she was at years going to if that is true that is something to be concerned about because you shouldn't you should be growing as a dancer and as you get older you're expected to do more you're expected to have more little twists and turns to your movements and be able to just kind of blow us away even more and so if you're not progressing that is an issue, and we do need to address it and you do not and not you know, maybe Abby says that a little harsher away like you said, but it is something that she needs to work on if that's the case definitely and then we have our group number the mute a triangle where have Brady and he's being the lead and we are dancing in water. Yes. Oh, yeah. I have a lot of thoughts about that particular dance. My first one was water that's really scary for a dancer, especially just because it is so easy to fall and get seriously injured which was obviously one of the moms huge concerns throughout the whole thing. It was honestly more stressful to watch the mom's dance or to watch the mom's watch the dance the other thing that I noticed about Was Brady was the lead again? And she brought him in for you know the week and I think that after all the preaching she did about being a team and not relying on Brady at kind of just seem to go right back to what she'd been doing before. So I as a mom I would have been frustrated and as a dancer as well in the company, like I would have been very frustrated by that and that's something we didn't quite touch upon but the fact that Brady is back that his mom Stacy Also has an ish Stacy seems of it is she was a lot of Mom's. Yeah, it's a trend but you know, he Abby does this Abby pick somebody that is a little bit of her favorite and she sometimes has multiple favorites but that person usually gets the lead and that's kind of Life. Yeah sure. It's not always fair and I thought that the kids did a great job with what they were given it wasn't I think we came off to huge dances back to back and while the one dance when and the other one did they were so moving and we've had and to have it just be In this like little water pool. Yeah, I would have rather. I'm trying to think of how I would have rather them done it but almost like Just pretend I think the water just wasn't what Abby had envisioned it being. Yeah, I think that they could have focused more on the dance movements had they not been focusing on the water. Right and they could have done way cooler tricks and they could have almost made it seem like they were in water without have like sometimes keeping some stuff to the imagination does help and I think this was a little too on the nose of we're putting you in water pools and now we have to take a step back on. You're doing because you're physically can't do certain things. Right so it wasn't a hundred percent on top four with the dance. I thought it was beautiful for what they had. I thought the kids did a great job for what they have, but I thought it could have been better. I agree. Yeah the dance definitely while the water was like a safety concern and all of that is very much became about like the the gimmick on stage rather than the dancers and focusing on what they were doing. I'm sure everyone in the audience was more afraid that they were going to fall or like focusing on the water splashing around and you know, With the dancers were actually doing which after such heavy like heavily emotional pieces before it. Yeah. It was a bit of a letdown. Yeah, I think it is just one of those things that these kids are so talented and because Abby is so intense with what she does and with how much she expect she almost makes us expect that so it's a little unfair to be that's why I wanted to make it clear that the kids did a great job. Yeah, but I just think that the choreography couldn't be to what the Normal choreography of Abby Lee Miller is with this dance for sure. Yeah, but we got the first place for Liliana solo. We got the third place for you Lana Ileana solo and we got fourth place for the dance. Now again, we haven't seen any of the other dances that are going up against any of these dances. So we can't make a hundred percent accurate depiction of what where we think these people should have placed but based on just I guess the solos do you think those were Fair placement? I think that they were definitely fair placements. Yeah, I think Liliana definitely deserved to win hands down and she got a perfect score only the third time in ALDC history for that to happen. That's amazing. Yeah. She I think she deserved it all it was a incredible performance for her and it was also really nice to see her have that not come back but kind of build up to that moment because she's you know struggled earlier on in the season. So that was very nice to see Anna. To be in our chat just that I just washed it. I was impressed. We also have a bunch of you guys in the chat. Thank you for joining us and Cheyenne Faith Curtis Panda Smith and Debbie Broussard. We love having you guys keep chatting along with us. Keep letting us know your thoughts. We love having more panelist on our panel. Yeah, it's great. Yeah. I just always feel so bad for these kids when they don't get the first place because you just see their faces drop and then you hear them crying in the bathroom afterwards. Yeah happen and it's like they're crying over second place, which is still a Amazing, especially in a competition third place in this case, but you still you still Place. Yeah exams. A lot of people that don't place but there is such a huge weight put on these kids shoulders to get first and of obviously if there are two people compete in the same division the same category 1 is not going to get first, right? So I do feel that when one gets worse when we get the second Abby shouldn't be as hard on that because someone had to lose right exactly so but I mean third It seemed that the judge is also weren't super impressed than with Ileana stance and maybe she does need to up our game but you know, one thing in this industry, you know, we're in the entertainment industry. You're an actress I act as well and dance is much like that. There's a lot of harsh people. There's a lot of people that are like a bee there's a lot of people that don't sugarcoat anything for you and if you can't take it it's not going to be the right industry for you. So you can't just run to the bathroom and be crying every time you get a harsh critic and a He's in so much worse critiques than that. Yeah, that wasn't even a harsh critique coming from a town. Just like you got to up your game, but your acting was great. You looked beautiful. Yeah. That was actually pretty nice coming from Abby was this nice about Liliana got no, but Chloe, I got a perfect score. What do you what you can't do any better than that you can and obviously Abby was locked down by the dance. Hmm But that kind of got overshadowed with Ileana running out in crime. So and another interesting thing that ulanda said in that moment was I don't know if this is the right place for my daughter and and maybe she's right, you know, I mean, that's a choice. You have to make Mom. I keep saying that over and over on the show when I as I watch it, I say to my friends that either watch or don't watch him, but they kind of know it's like you as a parent are choosing, you know to put your child in this environment and you have the choice to also take them out. You're still their parent. Will you maybe the kid wants to stay and maybe the kid doesn't want to stay. But you can't put them in the environment and then be upset with the outcome of the environment, right? They willingly chose it and you know, if that's the choice you make I think that's that's a choice you make and that's totally fine. If if your kid needs to have a different environment and be in there that's totally fine. But it just seems like every week either her or her mom or in the bathroom crying. Yeah. Well as it goes her mom and then she's going to comfort her mom and it's such a Other thoughts about ha ha but I just don't know. I it's it's sad and it's hard and I don't agree with a be a lot of the times with how she says things are how she reacts to certain things but it's at this point like maybe in the first season's that you could feel bad but it's like at this point like everybody and their mom knows how Abby is yeah. It's like she says it all the time. She's she said it today. She she said she's like you did this much she liked how you tune into. I mean you knew that I knew that like, At this point we know like and if you're going to act like you didn't know. Do some research watch the show. Yeah, I don't know what to tell you and then some I feel kind of harsh saying that but it's true and if you don't want to be in it don't be in it exactly and you know, like a bee is a very like nice person. I know a lot of people that have met her and she just is a little tough when it comes to these dances, but she's tough because she has to be right. I mean she's working at such a high level that you have to be, you know that harsh and not sure and I mean it's the pressure of the industry and it's also the pressure that she's on a reality TV show, right? You know being just a sweet Dance Mom instructor doesn't necessarily kind of selfish people don't tune in to watch the drama. So right, you know, it is what it is. But at the end of the day, you know, do we think Ileana will get a it's a little prediction e but let's just jump there for a second do we think Ileana is going to just stick it out and stay with it. I think there's a good chance that she won't but that is just me. There's also a chance that she'll kind of go through the same path that Lily did at the beginning of the season and she may come out stronger in the end. I think that's also a possibility. But okay. Yeah, we'll have to wait and see on that and that's kind of where we left off the episode. Is there anything that we didn't touch on that you wanted to talk about? Um, I don't think so. My main things were Stacey and Yolanda I did. I don't know if we're to Diva moment. Yeah. We're Going to be going into there. So let's just get into it. We're going to go into our Diva moment of the episode. We're going to tell you guys what we thought the biggest diva moment of the episode was and you guys can let us know in the live chat or in the comments. If you're not watching live what you thought it was so what is your Diva moment sir? My diva moment was when Brady came back and Tricia his mom basically told everyone off when she walked in. I just like started like went at it with everyone in it. Immediately. I was just like your back be happy like be grateful now Brady can do his thing and then she went to her. Sometimes she kept the sunglasses on the whole time too. It was just like the most evil thing you could do in my opinion. It was really funny. Okay. Mine's a little bit of a diva moment just because it's partially impartially not but also Point why so Abby has this chair and that she is in because of her surgery and her cancer and she just does the funniest things. The chair but I'm gonna make it my diva moment as well because I think it is a little DVD because she kind of knows at this point how to work the chair when she knows and she grabbed that chair on her Spin and then she just kind of looked around like he's going to grab this chair for me. That was my diva moment because I loved it. I loved watching a be in this chair. Like I know it's a such a sad reason why she's in the chair, but she makes that chair her own and she works that chair. She's working at. Yeah, I agree. It's like so there was one point earlier on in the season when she like dancing in it too and I was like dang. I know Tony who has been on the panel previously said that he loves when Abby leans back and she's just lying down. Yeah and is watching and critiquing critiquing from lying down sex. I mean if you have to be in a cherry might as well figure out ways to make it useful for you, right exactly. So that was our Diva moment again, like I said, go ahead let us know in the comments what your Diva moment of the episode was. Let's get in to some news and Sit so we do have a few things this week one with JoJo being on the episode. So this was her little bit of a return and she did kind of tell 17 that she today it came out that she was going to be on the episode. But with that she does have a brand new music video go that came out and it is featuring the girls from ALDC in it. So check out that video that's really cool of her to do. I think to kind of bring these girls in and make that's always a nice thing. It always is like a Okay, it's all worth it. We get to do the fun stuff as well. They've been through so many experiences together like through the same experiences like as each other. It's cool to include him in that family. Yeah, so go ahead check out JoJo's new music video with all the girls of the ALDC in it. And also we have some news about Savannah who the girl like her name earlier. I'm sorry about that. But that is the girl who did abandon as we put in air quotes the ALDC and it looks like she actually did. Leave and not say anything and she is still dancing. You can see on her Instagram. If you go to it. It's Savannah spelled Sav a NN. Aah Chris ditch. Kri, STI CH. If you go to her Instagram, you can see videos and pictures of her dancing and still competing in competition. So she's still doing her thing. She's just not doing it with the ALDC. And then the last bit we have is that Abby did get her knee replacement surgery. She's talked to Survivor net about how she has been putting off this new surge of about seven to eight years. You know, she obviously went through her other surgery earlier this year for her spine, but she now felt better enough that she wanted to get this done. So she did get it done. You can see on her Instagram a little video. She made while at the hospital just in true Abby fashion. She said it was always one episode one more season another special. We have Nationals and she said that the time has come and hopefully my doctor is not going to just put another knee and maybe a robotic supersonic. So I hope you got your supersonic me out because that would be pretty awesome just crossed. So yeah, so that is the news and gossip we had for you guys today. I will probably be bringing you more news and gossip every week as we do the show. Let's get into our predictions for next week's episode. I always like to take this time as the music's going to like really think about what you think is gonna happen. I feel like I'm so in the in the immediate episode and to think about it. So what are your predictions? That's what are we going to see next week? Well, I think the Brady's going to stay. I don't think there's any question that he won't be there. I think he's probably there for good now and I also think that the Stacy and Yolanda drama is going to come to a head tomorrow or next week in my Opinion. I don't think that they can have that storyline going for too much longer. As you said earlier. Yeah, I agree with you. I think Brady's definitely back. I do think that Abby will not say that Brady is the reason they lost she will not admit to that and I'm not singing because I don't think he is the reason they lost but she I'm assuming the other moms will mmm the wrongs. He's like, well, he's the other Factor we won last week without him and now he's back and we lost she'll blame it on something. I'm not sure what yet, but she lay on something and I think you know we saw in the previews the that something huge. It was Sarah's mom that she kind of yells a b then we hit the police sighs. I don't know if those are two are really correlated. I think that you're right Yolanda and Stacy might come to the all-out be fed on maybe that's why the police were called. These have not sure I do think that they'll keep you Londa around at least for a little bit because she is a little drama and the show does not exist without the drama. Yeah, and it is she does seem to bring in the most drama for the most people like so You'll find out where the drama all is. What else is going to happen with this team with these girls with these moms with a be in future episodes. 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