Mackenzie Beats Maddie… And Everyone LOSES It | Back To The Barre
Back to the Barre
Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Christi and Kelly recap Dance Moms season 5, episode 23 — “Maddie vs. Mackenzie,” where Mackenzie FINALLY beats Maddie… and everyone’s reactions become the big story.
Instead of letting Mackenzie have her moment, things get weird. Super weird. Melissa is emotional, Maddie is upset, and Abby turns the whole thing into a lesson about “losers.” These reactions tell you everything there is to know about the dynamic between Maddie, Mackenzie, Melissa, and Abby.
For years, everyone was taught that Maddie winning made sense, Maddie getting the extra attention made sense, and Maddie being protected made sense. But the second Mackenzie wins, it becomes clear how hard it is for the room to celebrate her without making it about Maddie.
Christi and Kelly also react to Nia calling out the lack of opportunities she gets, JoJo being humiliated over opportunities outside of Abby’s control, guest Travis Payne bringing in a completely different kind of energy, and a group routine that proves how strange this show could be when real performance-world choreography was dropped into a Dance Moms competition setting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, little bitchettes. Welcome back to the bar. It's bitch number one, Christy. |
| 0:05.0 | And bitch number two, Kelly. Kelly with the new haircut. You can't really tell with my ears on. |
| 0:12.0 | Yes, they can. Can you? Your hair is down to here. Well, I mean, what it really looks like, but I just literally walked in the door. |
| 0:22.1 | So I have no makeup on because, and you know, they put that shit around your face |
| 0:28.0 | of the hair color don't get on you. |
| 0:31.0 | I feel like that's all over my face. |
| 0:34.4 | And then I was sweating to death. |
| 0:35.9 | So I heard to put this on. |
| 0:37.1 | And then I just realized I filmed in this yesterday. |
| 0:40.8 | But you didn't have a cute and trendy haircut. |
| 0:44.0 | So everyone knows it's a different day. |
| 0:46.1 | Otherwise, I'd have been late if I had to look for an outfit. |
| 0:48.7 | So this was laying on the bed. |
| 0:50.2 | I thought, I'll put that on. |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | I mean, look, I wear the same clothes over and over again. |
| 0:55.0 | Doesn't everyone? I don't know. I'm home. Yeah. I mean... It had quite hot out here today. Did get warm. And I had really thick sweatpants on because it was chilly this morning. And I was warm. It was. That's why I was sweating. to get my hair and I had long sleeves on |
| 1:11.3 | and then I got home why I was sweating. I went to get my hair and I had long sleeves on and then |
| 1:12.2 | I got home and I was like dying. Yeah. Yeah. It did. It's what 80. It's 80 here. Well, |
| 1:19.2 | 77 at my house. I don't know what it is over there. Probably similar. I would say. I would do. |
| 1:25.5 | Yes. Um, yes, we'll share. Okay, everybody texting me needs to stop because this is our recording time. |
| 1:35.3 | That's me answering someone. |
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