My girls and I love it. DS gates drawn into it as well and DH tries hard to ignore it!! We're on season 3.
Love it! The girls are fabulous dancers but given how hard they train I'm not surprised. Except Vivi-Ann - she was not nearly of the same standard and her mother needs shooting. Specifically for saying she'd slash her wrists if Vivi said she didn't want to dance IN FRONT OF HER!!!
Of the mums, I like Kelly and Christi but they need to wind their necks in sometimes. Melissa is manipulative and pathetic. I like Holly but her timing isn't always good. Cathy is from another planet. Jill is a sycophant.
As for Abby - OMG! I wouldn't subject any of my children to her methods. At least Cathy uses positive praise to encourage her students. Her blatant favouritism is frustrating. Her contradictions are mind boggling. One minute she says the mothers are the bane of her life, the next they're not stepping up to the plate! One minutes she's expelling Holly, the next cross she's not at rehearsals! Oh, and it's NEVER the choreography that's wrong, only the performance.
We always have a discussion during and after about how we would do things differently, our opinions of the dances and where we agree.
Finally, Abby's voice - is she a smoker?