Project Runway

Persononally? I thought Michael's pants were kind of absurd, but I still liked his outfit better than Jeffrey's, which just didn't look that original. Tight black pants, a skull shirt, and a shiny blazer? That seemed stereotypically "rock star" to me. I also think it's fitting that Jeffrey won the challenge where he was designing for himself, since he's such a self-centered giant talking penis.

Yeah, Michael's pants were goofy, with those weird chords waving about. However, the idea of pimping out seersucker is pretty great.

Also, when will poor Vincent get the boot already? He's way out of his league, as made evident by this last challenge.

I am late to the game, but the red-head model (Amanda) is crazy hot.

Dude with the full neck tattoo needs to go if he hasn't already.

Vincent, ugh. So entertaining, but, seriously. He is 5% designer and 95% professional bullshitter.

and 100% crazy man.

I'm "supposed" to watch this for work. I never do.

Wednesday night I got a call at work from the new guy's mom saying 'There's something that M******' has to watch tonight? I'm calling to let you know that he won't be able too."

Uhhhhh.

Calvin Klein guy DEFINITELY saved Vincent and his pajamas. Although the poor guy probably would have trouble looking great in anything on a runway - I never noticed before, but the man is SHORT. Anyway, I do think this was interesting as probably the first time I've seen the judges actually disagree with each other. Have they done that more on previous seasons? I hate the way the editing just creates this consensus around whatever the plot point is that we're supposed to get - there's so much possibility for more suspense and more detail with a subtler approach. Top Chef was much better in this regard - possibly because the Tim Gunn figure was one of the judges, allowing him to point out things the other judges might not know from behind the scenes.

I suspect Laura's managed to dodge a "same thing every week" bullet in part because of the revolving cast of judges - maybe just as Vera Wang was starting to recognize a pattern, Michael Kors stepped in.

Uli...Uli I've loved almost the whole time but I think she missed the memo on this challenge. It really was not jet-setter in any way. Thankfully, Angela's also wasn't jet-setter and was also spectacularly dumpy and stupid. I said a long time ago (back when it was all group challenges) that Angela wasn't going to go until she could really do HER style on her OWN and thus fail spectacularly. I left out the part about designing for HERSELF - as bad as some of her challenge work has been, it's never been as bad as the stuff she herself wears. This challenge gave her a chance to make the two meet in the middle with brutal results.

Granted, after the Jeffrey/Mom debacle I mustered some sympathy for her, and really, the woman is quite talented if not terribly tasteful. I'd long since run out of much to say about her, and her departure was anticlimactic. I expect Kayne to go next week in a similar non-event ...just like Robert LAST week.... this is a weird show for me because I look forward to watching it and enjoy every episode, but I don't have much invested into the characters compared to Top Chef. I would, I think, be MUCH more excited about next episode if we were down to Michael, Uli, Alison, Bradley, Keith, and Malan. A shame Keith cheated and the rest fizzled out - from the audition episode, when we seemed to have a bountiful surplus of very solid and distinctive designers, we've somehow ended up with two far and away leaders followed distantly by one-trick ponies and mediocre (though sometimes entertaining) half-wits.

(Contrast once again to Top Chef, which despite a couple of hiccups really did have the no-talents there just to buy time - the final six were almost exactly the six you would have expected after the first episode, and though there was some bullshitting going on, they were all clearly on a higher plane of cooking than the rest.)