Dancing With the Stars gave Jenna Dewan a perfect 40. The comments had notes.

Jenna Dewan and Val Chmerkovskiy earned a perfect 40 on Dancing With the Stars’ November 2 Disney Night. Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson also scored 40. The paddles agreed; the conversation under Dewan’s official post was less tidy. 👀

The show’s Instagram account shared Dewan and Chmerkovskiy’s quickstep, while TV Insider and TheWrap independently report both perfect scores. The useful distinction is between the judges’ result and viewers’ preferences. A perfect score records one of those things, not both.

Two routines, two perfect scores

TV Insider identifies Dewan’s routine as a quickstep to Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast. Shum and Johnson performed a Mary Poppins jazz routine. Cynthia Erivo joined the judging panel for the Disney on Broadway-themed episode.

The night also included team routines. Both recaps report that Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa were eliminated after the individual and team performances, with the result incorporating judges’ scores and viewer votes. The individual leaderboard alone was therefore not the final elimination result.

The comments have their own scorecards

At our November 3 observation, Dewan’s official performance post displayed approximately 67.6 thousand likes, 1.1 thousand comments and 1.1 thousand reposts. Several visible comments questioned prior dance experience or the judging, while others praised the performance. That is a sample of this post’s discussion, not a representative audience poll or evidence of unfair scoring.

Google Trends’ US, past-24-hours view also displayed Dancing with the Stars in a 200K+ search bucket. That is search interest in the query group, not views of Dewan’s dance or a count of people taking one side.