At competition, Chloe has a wardrobe malfunction on stage, leading to Abby and Christi bickering in the hallway.

Meanwhile, new mom Cathy from Candy Apple's Dance Center joins the team with her daughter Vivi, which displeases the mothers.

Meanwhile, Cathy and Vivi-Anne, frustrated with the traveling, return to their old studio, Candy Apples Dance Center.

On Metacritic, the first season holds a score of 54 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

The new worst show on television debuted Wednesday night on Lifetime—Dance Moms, an ugly docu-circus featuring a megaton bully of a Pittsburgh dance instructor, the little princesses she costumes as lunatic street whores, and a quorum of strenuously pathetic stage mothers, one of whom warbles that she would slit her wrists if her daughter even thought of trying out for softball.