Dance Moms: Abby Reviews the Girls' Performances (Season 1 Flashback) | Lifetime

The moms bristle when Abby sits them down and describes what she believes each kid needs to work on during her end-of-season reviews in this clip from Season 1, Episode 11, "It All Ends Here". #DanceMoms

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Dance Moms
Season 1
Episode 11
It All Ends Here

"Dance Moms" follows Abby Lee Miller and the nation's favorite tween dancers as they take on Hollywood while new auditions, new competitions, and new studios raise the stakes.

[Thomassteven]

Back when Abby actually seemed to care about Chloe

[kickinbackwithKeira]

I felt like Christi took the criticism the best she defended Chloe but accepted that Chloe DOES need to work on her confidence

[GoodOlAllisonHarvard]

Okay, but I wanna know what notes she had for Melissa... 👀

[maggiethompson]

I like how Christie didn’t talk back like all the others moms did.

[luciec]

Holly NEVER asks for special treatment for Nia, In fact, Nia is VERY underestimated by Abby and at times is treated unfairly

[cara]

abby: chloe needs to work on her confidence
maybe if you didn’t put her down and compare her to maddie all the time she’d be more confident

[giuliaferrucci]

I would be really hurt if my mother didn't believe in me enough to angrily put off every constructive criticism and be totally fine with me being "mediocre"

[iwaqas]

For once abby didnt say anything inappropriate think kelly was way ott and disrespectful here for no reason

[menaceX]

I think Kelly claims to be the victim all the time but she's a fighter. Like honestly Abby was absolutely right. And I think Kelly just dug herself a hole because she is always saying Maddie gets the special treatment and complaining that her kids are overlooked but then says she doesn't want them to be as good as Maddie or Chloe?! I just don't get it.

[gizmocat]

I had no idea Kelly and Abby have had the same arguments since the first season! Kelly gets mad that Abby doesn't give them time but is willing to pull solos and is fine with them not improving. I can see why Abby was frustrated with Kelly.

[shelmcmurtry]

apple to orange? more like apple to pumpkin

[angelxxxx]

Tbh, I can see why Abby in the end wanted to replace the Hylands on the team. Don’t get me wrong I loved Paige and Brooke, I was always routing for Paige! However I just feel like the team was getting to intense for them. I don’t think they wanted it as bad as some of the others, like they didn’t care if they were there or not. Dance to them was literally like what Kelly said many times ‘an extra curriculum activity’. But to people like Maddie for example, this was so much more than that, this is what they wanted to do in the future, they wanted a successful career in dance! So the show, dancing, lessons, competitions and the team, were so so important it came before anything else! If you really really want something you have to put the work in and make it a priority, you have to try and be more than mediocre! And in the end Abby didn’t want a team that didn’t want to be the best, she wanted dancers that kept trying to better themselves. And I know Abby could be extremely cruel to Paige, but I’ve also seen where she just wanted them to work harder in order to improve, but when they don’t care it obviously gets frustrating for there dance teacher. Abby wanted dancers on that team that were willing to commit and priorities the team. It was okay that Brooke and Paige didn’t want to dedicate most of there time to dance, therefore being on an intense competition team which was aired on TV, dancing along side people who wanted a successful future in the show business’s and dance really wasn’t something they should have been part of. Each season the team got more and more serious and intense, the girls were getting older and competing more frequently and needed to be at the studio even more than they did before. I feel like Abby knew the Hylands wouldn’t fully commit, they had already let the team down in the past by pulling out of things at the last minute to do other things, the team was only getting more well known and intense, meaning Hylands had to choose one of 3 choice, either to work harder and get better, leave on there own back, or wait until Abby replaces them. And it was so obvious Abby was trying to replace Brooke with Kalani, and at some point we knew Abby and Kelly were going to fall out massively resulting in them leaving either way. Never expecting a physical fight however by season 4 I kinda I knew the Hylands were heading closer to the end of the line.

[takerhapsody]

A lot of these videos I don’t agree with Abby but on this she was fair . Why, when given an opportunity like this, would you not want to your child to be the best they can be ? If they just want to dance for fun then take them off the competition team and do a regular dance class and do it for fun . I used to do my grades on dance but never wanted to compete so that’s what I did

[Jadethespade]

There was no reason for Kelly to go off like that. Abby was just giving constructive criticism. Moments like this from s1 and s2 are why Abby began to treat Christi & Kelly and their kids the way she did once it began to head toward the later seasons.

[morganmartin]

Kelly is the only mom that tried to give her daughters normal lives and didn’t push them to be the best and make their whole lives revolve around dance. Regardless of her faults I respect that sm

[Acw]

I like how Kelly was like “yes my kids aren’t the best but I love them the way they are” bc none of the other moms have ever said that

[littlelilli]

Holly's reaction to the brick wall comment though. When my mom assumes I'm not listening she starts screaming what she was saying to the wall saying it listens better than me

[keiraspitzer]

I love the way holly speaks to abby, she stands up for nia yet she isn’t rude about it.

[abikowalewski]

Kelly never should’ve put Brooke and Paige in the competition team then

[z.l]

Nothing Abby said in this video was wrong.🤷🏾‍♀️