Dance Moms
Lifestyle realityUnscripted lives, homes and work observed.This show: 9/10Chaotic energyLoud, frenetic and gleefully anarchic.This show: 8/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 7/10
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| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | E26 | E27 | E28 | E29 | E30 | E31 | E32 | E33 | E34 | E35 | E36 | E37 | E38 | E39 | E40 | E41 | ||
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| S1 | 6.9 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 7.1 | 6.4 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 5.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S2 | 6.6 | 7.7 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 6.8 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 6.9 | 5.9 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 6.7 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 7.8 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 6.6 | ||||||||||||
| S3 | 6.1 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.6 | 6.9 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 6.7 | 6.3 | 6.7 | 5.7 | 6.6 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 6.8 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 6.7 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 5.0 | ||
| S4 | 5.8 | 6.9 | 6.3 | 5.7 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 7.1 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 4.9 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | ||||||||||
| S5 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 6.8 | 5.9 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 4.7 | ||||||||
| S6 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 6.4 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 5.6 | ||||||||
| S7 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 6.3 | 6.9 | 7.8 | 6.8 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 7.1 | 7.8 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 6.6 | 6.2 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 7.9 | 7.3 | |||||||||||||
| S8 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 6.2 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| S9 | 7.3 | 8.6 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 6.1 |
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About
"Petty backstage warfare disguised as a dance show"
Dance Moms follows a competitive dance studio where young girls train under a demanding instructor while their mothers clash backstage over favoritism, rankings, and screen time. Each episode builds toward a competition, but the real drama plays out in the studio's infamous ranking sessions and the shouting matches between moms. It's messy, catty, unapologetically dramatic reality TV, more about interpersonal warfare than actual dance technique. The tone is loud, petty, and oddly addictive, carried by outsized personalities rather than plot, engineered for reaction rather than reflection.
Watch it for
the operatic mother-versus-mother conflict that turns dance recitals into full-blown blood sport.
Maybe skip if
you find manufactured reality drama and constant adult screaming exhausting rather than entertaining.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 12011
6.91K139h 1m
Set in Pittsburgh’s renowned Abby Lee Dance Company, owned and operated by notoriously demanding and passionate instructor Abby Lee Miller, Lifetime’s explosive new docu-series Dance Moms follows children’s early steps on the road to stardom and the doting mothers who are there for every rehearsal, performance and bow…all under the discerning eye of Miller
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Season 22012
6.62K3021h 43m
This season, Dance Moms continues to pose tough questions about what really goes on behind the scenes of the fast-growing and controversial sport of competitive dance.
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Season 32013
6.12K4131h 24m
Abby Lee Miller is back with Pittsburgh’s world-class students, their mothers, and all their baggage. Get ready for more drama and dancing as everyone gets into their routines. You’ll meet several new dancers who join the others in vying to be Abby’s new favorite and bring home National Dance titles.
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Season 42014
5.89833323h 20m
Abby takes to the road with a new national scouting tour to find the country’s most elite young dancers. With the threat of new dancers coming into the company, the moms will stop at nothing to ensure their girls have a place to shine on stage – even if it means going up against Abby. But despite even more mama drama, what Abby Lee Miller says, goes. And when she says, “Everyone is replaceable,” she means it! Includes a premiere special, “Guess Who’s Coming to the Dance?”
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Season 52015
5.37783423h 55m
The dance competition season is off to a rocky start when a key team member disappears.
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Season 62016
5.77233425h 29m
With her LA studio now open for business, Abby is determined to ensure her team won’t have another dismal competition season. To keep her girls focused, Abby issues a ban on anything other than dance. In a move to keep her empire alive and grow new stars, Abby makes the controversial decision to form a new Mini Elite Competition Team that will learn from the older girls in the company. With Abby’s legal woes on the horizon, will the Abby Lee Dance Company be able to get back on top?
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Season 72016
6.95503020h 29m
Abby admits that coaching two teams does not work, the Jr Elite Team ultimately agrees to return to the ALDC to get back on top and to reclaim their national title while Abby once again creates a new team known as the great eight.
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Season 82019
5.94632013h 34m
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Season 9
7.352211h 40m
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Abby Lee Miller Self
Nia Sioux Self
Holly Frazier Self
Kendall Vertes Self
Gianna Martello Self, Assistant Coach, Assistant Coaxh
Jill Vertes Self
Mackenzie Ziegler Self
Maddie Ziegler Self
Melissa Ziegler Self
Christi Lukasiak Self
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