Amber & Maks – Review of DWTS Season 23, Week 02

DWTS Season 23,

Week 02 REVIEW:

Amber & Maks

Dancing the Viennese Waltz to "The Game of Thrones Theme" by Ramin Djawadi from Game of  Thrones, Amber Rose and her Professional partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, presented their Week 02 Routine.

Amber & Maks 

DWTS Season 23, Week 02

Ok ... Mmm-hmm ... Well, I have to ask,  have y'all ever actually seen Game of Thrones?

If not, ... Dudes! ... Really?

If so, how in the Seven Kingdoms did this dance come to be?

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm the last one to come down hard on Maks - he is one of my all-time favorite Pros; and, I'm (still) so thrilled to have him back in the ballroom - it's just that this particular dance fell kind of short of my expectations. 

Amber & Maks 

DWTS Season 23, Week 02

I mean, first off, Maks, you're dancing a Viennese Waltz to Game of Thrones ... Dude! Put some umph into it!!

(On the other hand – and this does bare mentioning! – perhaps this disastrous Routine wasn’t ALL Maks' fault, since the always elative (if not successful! ) pairing of the “Game of Thrones Theme” and the Viennese Waltz HAS already been quite stamped – and the standard irrevocably set! – by that marvelous Season 17 Couple, Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff! 

Corbin & Karina's

Game of Thrones Viennese Waltz 

DWTS Season 17, Week 06

… Foggy memory?  Check out this clip of the Viennese Waltz that - as Corbin phrased it! - “mounts the world!”, courtesy of  Steve Lee's official YouTube channel!)

Secondly, Amber, to your credit, you danced a pretty good Viennese Waltz; but, just a quick side note: How about next week we get on the balls of those feet ... remember, it's Daenerys Stormborn not Daenerys Flatfoot ... just sayin'.

Don't worry though, guys! It is, after all, only Week 02 - there's still plenty of time and lots of room to grow!

So, here's hoping Elimination misses you two (really hoping ... if Maks goes home this early I'll cry and cry and cry!) so that you can come back next week and dance even better - I know you guys can do it!


See video (below) to watch Amber & Maks' Viennese Waltz on Week 02 of DWTS, courtesy of Dancing With The Stars' great YouTube channel!