World of Dance

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: May 30, 2017
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 68 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 3 out of 68
  3. Negative: 13 out of 68

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  1. Colokat5
    Jun 28, 2017
    4
    I had such high hopes for this show! That said, I'm extremely disappointed. Much of what I've seen so far is NOT dance! It's more contortionism mixed with various forms of street dance. World of Dance the title, certainly makes it seem that there will be various Forms of Dance. The true "dancers" rather than the contortionists score very low, while the crazy contortionistic "dancers" allI had such high hopes for this show! That said, I'm extremely disappointed. Much of what I've seen so far is NOT dance! It's more contortionism mixed with various forms of street dance. World of Dance the title, certainly makes it seem that there will be various Forms of Dance. The true "dancers" rather than the contortionists score very low, while the crazy contortionistic "dancers" all score high. I will stick it out for the season, but as a classically trained dancer, this show should NOT be called "World of Dance". Jennifer Lopez should find other endeavors to put her "talents" to. All the reviews that score it 10 are not classically trained dancers obviously, but lean toward the street dancer variety.… Expand
  2. aparthesis
    Aug 2, 2017
    5
    The dancing is truly amazing. These people really pour themselves into a craft and it is amazing. As far as the show goes though it has a lot of things wrong with it in my opinion. The judges, the scoring, and the structure of the competition leaves a lot to be desired.

    The judges seem to be just figureheads for the most part. They never really show us why they deserve to be deciding    The dancing is truly amazing. These people really pour themselves into a craft and it is amazing. As far as the show goes though it has a lot of things wrong with it in my opinion. The judges, the scoring, and the structure of the competition leaves a lot to be desired.

    The judges seem to be just figureheads for the most part. They never really show us why they deserve to be deciding these people's fates. Maybe jlo not producing might help things.

    The scoring - Averaging for one is terrible, it gives to much power and takes to much power away from a single judge. The largest problem is the manner in which they display the scores. They display them to the audience at terrible times and never seem to build up the anticipation.

    The structure of the competition I would say fails in the fact that it doesn't do anything for the audience. Regardless of what this show is supposed to be or what people want it to be it is a show meant to entertain. You watch your favorites go home and you can't even pretend to play along. If you compare this to shows like the voice, AGT, AIdol. It fails in every way they succeed. Having a pure competition without taking into account the entertainment value is saddening.

    This is a show I would love to enjoy. I truly hope for the second season they share more about the dancers, the judges actually give input like they know something about dance, and they include the audience in the show somehow.    … Expand
  3. RobertoMRodrigu
    Sep 23, 2018
    5
    Let me define the recency effect first so that everybody can understand my criticism of the show: Recency effect "This is the principle that the most recently presented items or experiences will most likely be remembered best. If you hear a long list of words, it is more likely that you will remember the words you heard last (at the end of the list) than words that occurred in the middle.Let me define the recency effect first so that everybody can understand my criticism of the show: Recency effect "This is the principle that the most recently presented items or experiences will most likely be remembered best. If you hear a long list of words, it is more likely that you will remember the words you heard last (at the end of the list) than words that occurred in the middle. This is the recency effect. You should also note that you will be likely to remember words at the beginning of the list more than words in the middle, and this is called the Primacy Effect." This is the obvious bias in the judges' ratings where the last person in the show inevitably gets the highest scores. This is a problem throughout the whole show, with maybe one or two exceptions. The dancers that dance last, wins. During the last show for the 2018 season the four contestants had to dance twice, and I thought that whoever is directing this show would try to counteract the recency effect by having the person who got the first place to dance first - if this had happened The Labs would for sure have been eliminated. However, by starting from the bottom up the results of the show were clear. I made a bet with a friend that by allowing me to know who was going to dance last I was going to determine the winner of the show. So, I won the $ 100 that we bet. The concept of the show was made by a woman that is mentioned sometime during the show. But that concept is FLAWED. I am not going to tell you how to correct the problem, but if you give me a call I will explain it to you if you cannot figure it out for yourself. The World of Dance is a great show and the judges are not to blame for the manner in which the voting and so on "the concept" is followed. The problem is that the concept is wrong and should be corrected if people like myself watching the TV is not going to continue knowing who is the winner of the competition by just looking at who are the last performers. Roberto M. Rodriguez, Ph. D. Blaine, MinnesotaThe Negative Effects if the Recency Effect… Expand

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  1. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    May 30, 2017
    50
    World of Dance has stars, style and spunk. It’s also wildly over­produced and seems a bit out of step.
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