Heidi Klum (who was the subject of a rough joke earlier this season) was overflowing with praise for how he was constantly showing up with something new and different that they’d never seen before, and Howie Mandel stated that he thinks Jonathan Goodwin is worth a vote forward to the finals.
Judge Sofia Vergara said that it was her “favorite of all the stuff” that he’d done, noting that this wasn’t an illusion or magic trick, but something that he was really doing to himself.
It was indeed a thrilling act, and I found myself wondering more than once if the final rope would burn through and the safety line would have to save him from plummeting to very serious injury or even death.