Monday Night Dancing!

My Monday night television lineup usually consists of Gossip Girl but since that’s on hiatus, I thought I’d try and get into this season of Dancing with the Stars.  I’m a pretty big reality tv fan (Jersey Shore anyone?) but this has never been one of my favorites.  This is Dancing’s eleventh season and the fourth episode this season so they are already down one celebrity (Mike Catherwood).  Mike Catherwood represents my main problem with this show because he’s a “celebrity” but I have absolutely no idea who he is and I read tabloids pretty religiously.  The “celebrities” are d-list and below celebrities and that makes me angry because I have no idea who they are.  At this point, some of the dancers on the show are more famous than the celebrities they are paired with.  The remaining ten celebrities are Chelsea Kane, Chris Jericho, Hines Ward, Kendra Wilkinson, Kirstie Alley, Petra Nemcova, Ralph Macchio, Romeo, Sugar Ray Leonard and Wendy Williams.  For the past two weeks, the highest scorers have been Kirstie Alley, Hines Ward and Ralph Macchio and (mention this week’s performances).  The lowest scorers have been Wendy Williams, Petra Nemcova and Kendra Wilkinson who all had scores below 20 for both weeks.

This week’s show got off to a really rocky start with Wendy William’s foxtrot which earned her 15 points and looked extremely awkward.  Chelsea Kane came next with a cha cha cha that earned 23 points and was very good although her outfit was a little too revealing.  The first male celeb of the night was Chris Jericho who got a 21 on his rumba which was a tribute to his mother.  Kendra Wilkinson and Romeo followed doing a samba which earned Kendra 23 points and a rumba which earned Romeo 20.  Both dances showed good technical work but were a bit boring.  The next two dances were by Hines Ward and Petra Nemcova who both earned 25 points for their fun cha cha cha and classy waltz.  Sugar Ray Leonard was next with a dull rumba that surprisingly earned him a fairly solid 20 points.  The last two performances were from Kirstie Alley and Ralph Macchio who both earned 21 points and both did good rumbas.  Kirstie’s dance partner, Max pulled his thigh muscle at the beginning of the dance which led to a rough start to their dance but they managed to finish strong.  Overall I was really underwhelmed by the whole episode, which did not need to be stretched out to 2 hours.  But maybe I just don't know enough about dancing to really appreciate some of the slower dances.  Do you all agree with my thoughts on the night or do you think I was too harsh/easy on the celebs??  All I know is that after watching this episode of Dancing, I will most definitely be sticking to Gossip Girl for my dose of Monday television.