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[quote=Anonymous]I have extremely mixed feelings about ASD and have hate-watched a lot of her stuff.

However, I'm a total ballet geek and will watch literally any ballet-centric movie or TV show. So my comments are for ballet lovers and ballet lovers only. This show is really into ballet.

This one has a lot of actual ballet in it! Like the third episode features a solid 20 minutes of excerpts from real ballets mostly featuring real ballet dancers (some of the leads are using body doubles in parts, but their doubles are very good). I love the snippets of rehearsals they show. I love the whole storyline with the choreographer and I love the work they have him producing.

Apparently all the new work in the show was choreographed by Marguerite Derricks, which makes sense because it's all very camera friendly and she's so good at that. But I was still impressed by how convincing the ballet was, as most of her work is more commercial, but I bought that the Tobias-choreographed work was contemporary ballet for a major company. Kudos to Derricks.

Tiler Peck is in it. Her acting is only okay but they kept her stuff light and weird and it works okay. It's delightful watching her dance in character.

But just generally it is very cool to see so many actual, working ballet dancers featured so heavily doing what they do. One of my favorite parts of each episode is when they play the end credits over footage of the dancers in the studio, rehearsing or training. It is all very natural and authentic. Ballet dancers are like Olympic athletes, what they do is phenomenally hard and they train for hours a day every day for many years to get to the point these dancers are at. I'm enormously grateful to the Palladinos for making it. Hurray for ballet! The story is silly and fine. I like the both the actors playing the directors of the respective companies.[/quote]

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