So You Think You Can Dance Top 7 Couples

This week was so much better than last week, in terms of entertainment -- each couple performed two routines, which meant almost no filler. In terms of dancing, this was maybe a little less strong. It seemed like most of the couples weren't quite up to learning two entire routines (in addition to whatever group number they'll do to open tomorrow night's episode, plus the solo "Dance for Your Life" routine six of them will need to perform).

I am still finding this format tough, though. It's hard to watch 14 of these in a single night and then try to remember and talk about them afterwards. Fortunately, I watched with our friend A., who had some vivid remarks.

Will/Jessica. Wow -- I can't remember both of their numbers. There was the shirtless one, grace a Mandy Moore. That one was good, but showed up Jessica's limitations (per usual).

Thayne/Comfort. Thayne is so much more bearable paired with Comfort. I know -- a lot of that has to be my pro-Comfort bias, but also, he seems to be toning down the overblown, fakey smiling. I thought the judges were unnecessarily harsh on the first routine; the second one they liked for some reason, although I found it boring.

Matt/Kourtni. I think these kids are done. They keep landing in the bottom three, plus the judges seem to have had it with Matt, particularly his "flappy" (per A.) hands.

Mark/Chelsie. Hated the first routine (which the judges loved), but liked the second one, even with the awful, ill-fitting dress. A.: "That girl is what? 12 years old?"

Twitch/Kherington. Twitch was pretty shirtless throughout. Both of these struck us as pretty gimicky. The second one (no surprise -- it was Mia Michaels's), at least, was emotionally compelling.

Joshua/Katee. The first one was unbelievable. I thought the second one completely sucked -- it got better, but still . . . The costumes were gross, too.

Gev/Courtney. Both of these were pretty fun, but Gev seemed a little overmatched -- is that the correct term? He was having to work too hard to keep up with Courtney on the first one, then on the second one, he seemed always a step ahead.