DWTS season 35 premiered this week — is the cast actually worth 4 hours of TV?
The two-night premiere was Sept 15-16 and everyone at work is talking about it. I haven't watched since like 2015. Is this season's cast actually good, or is it the usual mix of one ringer and 15 people who can't dance? I don't want to burn 4 hours on premiere episodes just to find out the Mirrorball is already decided. Who's genuinely worth watching?
2 answers
- YouTube the next morning
Don't give it four hours. Every dance is on YouTube the next morning — watch the three routines people are actually talking about, twelve minutes total. The show itself is mostly filler and voting segments. If the clips don't make you curious, you just saved an evening.
- Watch night two, skip night one
I caught both premiere nights and honestly night two had the better dances — night one is half intro packages. The thing to check is the week-one leaderboard on the DWTS site or ABC's YouTube channel — the scores tell you who's a ringer (Jenna Dewan and Harry Shum Jr. both have real dance training, no surprise there) and who's the fun underdog story. If you're short on time: watch the top-3 scored dances on YouTube and skip the two hours of filler. That's what I do every season.