Yes, and furthermore, there is no interpersonal drama shown. Occasionally a dancer will get injured and that will be reported, but if there are any backstage conflicts, we don't hear about them.

Last season was straight-up strange. This year, like many, I feel like anybody in the Top 8 could take the win. Last year, come Top 8 time, I thought that the only acceptable winners would be Eliana, plus Chehon or Cole. Anybody else would have been a farce. But this season, anybody still in the game could win and it…

Heck, after this week, I'd love to see Comfort choreograph for Twitch and Jasmine.

Agreed- it seems clear to me that Fik-Shun has been cross-trained, though, while Jade and Blu-Print had not. So that's something.

If anything, you should feel young. Or, like, actually old. Hanky codes were for gay men in the ~60s/70s, when you couldn't explicitly talk about what you wanted to do, even in bars.

Fik-Shun did a great job, but I had to force myself to watch him and not Melanie in that sparkly dress. Those costumes may have been his undoing.

My hope is that Jasmine can sing, or rap. Jasmine Harper is the pop star that America deserves.

I initially assumed, because of the whole "Cyrus's ex" thing, that she didn't get on the show on her own merits. I was looking for little flaws in her performance to prove myself right… I never did find any.

Can I just say how happy I am with how this season is turning out? When we got started, I was worried that:

I beg your pardon, but did you say track 7 features Jeremy Jordan of NBC's Smash?

To be fair, the Up All Night situation wasn't caused by network mismanagement, but by Will Arnett wishing on a shooting star that he would be on a sitcom that never got cancelled "no matter what".

"There are some leaps that TV's not ready to take, and the idea that an attractive young woman can have a perfectly satisfactory love life that has nothing to do with men is one of them."

I have such complicated feelings for Mary Murphy, because her criticism is so refreshingly specific and technical- and not just for ballroom, this week she called out Jasmine for her excellent isolations in hiphop, for example- but I hate the sound of her voice beyond reason.

Aaron & Jasmine will doubtless dance together again- I will be STUNNED if they are not in the Top 4, but even if they're not, the Giving Tree number will be repeated.

Perhaps the Fin Tutuola of trailers.

Predictions for next week: Alexis and Alan go home, in order to partner up Malece and Nico, which will make the producers very very happy. Curtis and Haley get Broadway, in order to justify keeping Curtis on the show instead of Alan.

My guess is Alan. He's not quite as tall as Aaron, but he's sturdy. And Emilio was tall, too, wasn't he?

Or, again, Geoffrey Arend (Christina Hendricks' husband), who is neither in particular.

Everybody and Lucille II.

Wow. Jasmine and Aaron just wrote the book on how to struggle though a difficult routine that's out of your wheelhouse with personality, chemistry and good lines. I ain't even mad. They look great.