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S6, E3 - Mini Dancers, Big Drama | Barre Tab

  • Yes! It was a refreshing change to the usual Dance Moms format 42
  • No, the "second team" storyline didn't work in Season 4 so why'd they try again? 170
  • 2026-09-14
  • 212 votes
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Did you enjoy the addition of the Mini team this season?

Comments

hawaii20300

where is season 6 episode 1?

Jillian

The minis were okay but there was no need for them. The moms were too crazy and everything took away from the main team.

HollyJolly

It’s on Hulu for me.

hawaii20300

no i meant they recorded season 6 episode 1 and then took it down

the car seat off christi’s porch

the mini teams are so hard to keep up with at a point like it was like they were trying to make a back up plan to the girls aging out but ran into the same problem that they had with the select team… we wanted to watch the original girls grow and succeed not meet new ones

HollyJolly

Idk what happened to my comment but long story short, hated their storyline. Not sure how a parent could watch 5 seasons of the show and still think it was a good idea to bring their children and this whole thought process that the children have wanted to dance for Abby since they could talk is just as stupid lol

HollyJolly

Oh. Probably a mistake release. They never release this early

Jann Schmidt

I enjoyed the minis. They were talented dancers, and I enjoyed watching them. I think it added an interesting twist to balancing the two teams and integrating them. The mom drama was always my least favorite part.

Sofia Gomez

Where are the episodes I can’t see them

Enrique Olguin

It was good but they needed someone to better split the time or have some of the older girls step up to help Gia maybe

Enrique Olguin

That and we never got a chance to see the kids grow a lot of them were out the door already

Kelly

I wasn’t a huge mini team fan. But they gave us Yolanda and Stacy and the fights between them are tv gold. 🤣🤣🤣

Melissa’s Season 6 Extensions

no, i feel like the minis were the catalyst for the downfall of the show. i had nothing against the minis (and certain mini moms were tolerable) but you can see that between forming of the mini team and the zieglers leaving, the show was doomed to go downhill

Blue Jai

The moms created a few iconic moments. But I honestly didn’t see the point of them. I think the show probably polled people who said it felt strange now that the original girls are older. And Abby probably wanted to see if it would be sustainable if she just cycled through teams of young dancers for endless seasons. But one of the rivals say Abby just isn’t good at choreographing for older girls at this point on the show and she needs younger dancers since she won’t be challenged to come up with as many innovative or interesting concepts in order to win.

Emily Matson

There were so many talented dancers on that team but it felt like they were just trying any last ditch efforts to keep the show new and different, it was out of routine and really forced. Plus it was going down like the titanic at that point. As someone that watched from day one, trying to watch at this point was rough enough but then you bring in outsiders and more kids to get traumatized. It was like having rough family drama that you grew up around so you are kinda immune but still aware so you didn’t wanna bring around outside guests into the mess. Dance moms felt like that at this point so I was like who invited these guests to come see the crazed aunt who lives in the back, is going to jail, screams at kids, runs around without her shirt on, won’t stop licking her face, yells at competition announcers, only uses notecards to speak, and most of the time is completely on a different planet😂 it felt irresponsible and frustrating that as a viewer I couldn’t scream through the screen for them to run. Like i know they watched the show but they had to be so delulu to sign up for that trainwreck🫠

Abby’s Yuge Prada

I liked the mini team even though those moms were definitely crazy lol but considering what the previous five seasons showed, crazy makes good TV!

Emily King

First time commenting! Perhaps an unpopular perspective?: In the past I would’ve said no, but after recently rewatching the show, I am partly glad that they were added. The biggest reason for this is that in my opinion, it kept more inner-drama amongst the junior elite moms from happening. Instead, the drama or unpleasantness for the week was usually amongst the mini moms fighting with the junior elite moms, or some variation of that. (This is more apparent in seasons 6b and parts of 7). I hated seeing conflict amongst the junior moms, and the effects that it had on the girls. I also believe that it took some of the heat off of Brynn, which ya’ll will see once you get to season 6. Since drama unfortunately has to happen in this show, I’d rather it be between mini moms and junior moms, vs. inner fighting. Also, without cathy or a rival team to compete against during this timeframe, these mini moms sort of fill that “reason” for uniting the junior team. Hopefully my wording made sense😅

Angelo_interrupted

Not at all. I wasn’t invested in them and I just didn’t care about their presence on screen

Nicola Church

I thought it was great to have them on . I know some didn’t like them but I did feel Melissa treated one particular mum badly and was so horrible about her disabled child ! It was horrendous . Actually thought it was the one and only time I saw a human side to Abby . Or maybe it was the drugs talking ..

the ant at the picnic

idk i LOVED karri or however u spell it she was so quick it was crazy just wait and i thought it was funny how the minis bothered the junior team SOOO much they complained that when abby was there she wasn't so why would u care that shes not there i mean yes makes sense but so much hypocrisy

I don’t have a problem area, I’m a problem

The mini moms were so toxic. Even after seeing what Abby did to the main cast they still brought in their little girls to be beaten down by Abby. Never in a million years would I do that to my kids.

babs

hot take: if yall were there, i’d say no, but with this team, we for sure needed to stir the pot. plus, now we’ll have y*l*nd*.

Kelly’s screenshots!

All of the OG moms and kids were not actively seeking opportunities to be stars. Everyone who auditioned after the show only wanted the fame. The reason why Dance Moms worked is because the OGs had REAL history and experiences that didn’t have to be set up. That is why the casts who joined in later seasons can’t understand the trauma the OG’s went through. The little ones were talented, but they were there to be famous. Not to dance with their friends.

JohnMonty03

The mini team was just another smoke screen for the tax fraudulent dance teacher. Especially with all the legal drama about to unravel in Season 6. This was just another excuse/reasoning for that dance teacher to take her frustration and anger out on more little children.

The cookie in abby’s purse

When I was watching it live I hated it. So unnecessary and annoying, I want to watch the main elite team, not random minis. But now rewatching, it brought such good drama and I’m here for it LOL. We got yolanda and stacey outta this

Broadway Baby’s Eye Crust

Abby seemed intrigued at first by the idea of a mini team… but was it really her idea? Or was it productions? I know her “lawyers called her”, but if she was actually infatuated by the idea of the minis I don’t think she would have flipped out like she did

Emptychairdoasolo

Outside of Abbys insanity, the minis were the first big drama setter of the show since you guys left! I wasn't a huge fan, but it was at least a new storyline outside of Abby being nuts, maddy being perfect, Jill being salty over something, and Holly the momager. I feel like season 6 would have just felt like a replay of season 5 with new costumes without the minis🤷‍♀️ it also really showed how little of a priority the girls were to abby at this point. Its like she was looking for any excuse or distraction to be gone!

Dominique

I thought the minis were talented but they did not have the cohesiveness of the OG dance girls who danced together since they were little and were friends. I felt the mini moms were super entitled and thought they would be bigger than the OGs when they were riding the coattails of OG dancers…

Hannah Wells

Similar to the select team, I was never truly invested in any of the girls on the mini team the way I did with the OG girls and the drama/fights with the moms never really felt authentic to me as a viewer

EthanThePharmacist

I actually really liked most of the mini moms. Kerri, Stacey, and Yolanda were hilariously unhinged. Also thought that Areana and Elliana were amazing dancers, especially for their age. Areana's dancing reminded me a lot of Chloe, and Elliana reminded me a lot of Maddie.

Bailey Saldana

The moms came in looking for a moment. Clearly they wanted to be reality TV stars and it felt very overproduced.

Pinkelephant47

I’m torn. On one hand, I liked them a lot because it would have been a great launch into a new team, dynamic, and to watch the girls grow up. Although they were missing the initial history, they were all young enough that it would have evolved as we watched. However, the elite team was not old enough for that to happen yet and Abby was far too crazy and over being a dance teacher for that to work. I know they were going for the whole cycle idea to keep the show going once the girls aged out, but they hadn’t yet. Maybe if Abby wasn’t so awful and checked out and the ogs had professional careers, it would have worked

Brieanna Hynish

The second the minis are there the entire format of a popular and successful show was gone…. This is again on the hottakes I ask if this was Abby’s idea or production,because she had an elite team that is now world famous the majority of them have been in their own or othe music videos wait all of them had cause kalani was in Kendall’s…. And you’re just going to not give a shit anymore? No shade ont he minis they were beyond talented and a lot of them still dance today which makes me so sincerely happy but who came up with this plot I would love to know!