Taking the Stage’s last episode premiered with a bang: Telling us that Jasmine and Tyler were in love.

Once they’d gotten the humor out of the way, Mia recorded a demo with Aaron, who was again vocal about his love for her. Poor Aaron, as we already knew from the commercial that Mia and Tyler were gonna get it on.
Mia and Tyler immediately meet outside and start talking about how much he cried when he broke up with Jasmine. Way to win a girl’s heart, Tyler. I always want my date to tell me how upset he was over another girl!

Everyone seems to be getting opportunities in this episode, strangely enough. It’s almost like the world is coming together to create a neat ending for Taking the Stage season 1… Oh wait, it’s just editing. Anyhoo, Jasmine gets an audition to some school that is not Julliard (and thus unimportant); Mia gets asked for a demo by Jive Records; Tyler and Malik get offered a dance audition; and Shaakira… Haha, you didn’t really think that anything would happen with Shaakira, did you?

Tyler and Malik mirror each other in a suspenseful competition to see who can look cooler when nobody but their friends are looking. Meanwhile, Mia tells Aaron, Aubrie, her grandmother, and that homeless guy begging for change that Tyler broke up with Jasmine. Mia is like the broken record they taught you in health class (to say no to drugs), except listening to her makes you want to overdose on whatever pills you can get your hands on.
Mia is amazing in that she gets progressively more annoying in each scene. At first she just sidles up to anyone who’s unfortunate enough to be standing there and tells them that Tyler’s single, but then she hears that Jive Records wants to meet with her (the things struggling companies have to do in trying times to get publicity with MTV). From then on she becomes completely unbearable (like she wasn’t before). Mia has discussions about how she was BORN to sing crappy remixes of the Ting Tings’ songs and bores her friend to tears, who then has to pretend she’s gonna miss Mia.

Amazingly enough, Tyler and Malik are up front and center for both their auditions (shockingly good “luck”). Unfortunately for Malik, MTV wants to continue the theme of him being upstaged by Tyler, so he gets dismissed. Malik is so distraught that he considers going to college and possibly even getting… omg… a DESK JOB. Oh noez! His momma doesn’t like it when he talks like this (aka: a grown-up). Tyler, however, gets the spot and tells him mommy and lil bro that he should move to L.A. because, “there’s nothing here”. How sweet.

Jasmine auditions for the school that is not Julliard with a bowlegged kind of dance that makes the judges smile. I’m personally not into dances where you swing your arms around like you’re holding a giant angular baby, but apparently the school likes her… not enough to offer admission, but enough to give her another audition.
In spite of Tyler’s dance teacher telling him that this was the audition of a LIFETIME, the teacher changes his mind (aka MTV wanted a second season), so Tyler decides to stay at school. Mia also gets rejected, making me think that all’s well that ends well. In conclusion: Mia, Jasmine, Shaakira, and Malik fail at being artsy, and Tyler gives up THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. Everyone decides to stay home, and the season wraps up in the most anticlimactic fashion possible.

NV/R,
Margo & Maria
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