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Dancing With the Stars is like one big dysfunctional family, and sometimes Performance Shows turn into really bad reunion dinners. Over the years, we’ve seen fights from every angle — judges fighting each other, pros lashing out at judges, judges lashing out at pros or celebs, celebs and pros attacking each other, and of course the audience booing through it all. Sometimes the...

Dancing With the Stars is all about the themes nowadays. Classical. American. Broadway. Latin. Rock. ‘80s. It's almost out of control. There was a time when DWTS had no themes — just dances. The downside of that: How many times can pros choreograph, say, a Paso Doble without running out of ideas? The themes give the couples a fresh boost of inspiration, but they don’t always...

Something about Season 13 was magical. As Cheryl Burke said in the Celebriquarium last night, of all of her 12 seasons, this one with Rob Kardashian was special to her. We watched J.R. Martinez go from relative obscurity to the cover of People Magazine; Carson Kressley emerge once again as must-watch TV personality; and a Kardashian become famous for actually having a demonstrable skill.

But...