The superfans were awesome!

Bad news BB fans. Russell Hantz will be joining BB15.

I thought this season's obligatory "Real women, eek!" comment was less offensive than in the past, though of course editing has a lot to do with that. But in general I prefer the "Crap, I have no experience with non-models, I hope I do a good job" type of comment than the "Ugh, women bigger than a size 4 are IMPOSSIBLE TO DRESS, why are they making us do this."

Somehow I completely missed that Top Chef was back!! Crap!

Wait, what? The new regular Top Chef? I missed it!

The superfans were awesome!

They really were! The interaction between the judges and the fans when they did the close-ups was very cool.

I think the judges got it right this week. The top looks are fantastic, the safe looks are right in the middle, and the bottom looks are the most problematic. I don't know that I would have liked Alexander's suit even if he had finished it. Though Heidi was right, the silhouette was very nice. Alexandria (I wish their names were less similar, somehow) seems very into following whatever direction she's given, from the client or in the challenge specifications, sometimes that messes her up. I don't even know what Ken was thinking, picking a fabric he hated. It's nice that he left well after all that drama.

I was hoping I could bail on the upcoming All Stars but the line up of designers that are coming back is pretty compelling!

I was talking about Masters, I don't think the regular Top Chef is back yet. Next Wednesday, I think? I only watch Masters,I am peculiar like that.

I was actually thinking the same thing, Jess, which might be why I slid sideways into that but surely he's made clothes for his mother feeling. Not offended, more disbelieving, really. Especially with him being self-taught. OTOH, the fit on his dress was pretty bad and we was not good at managing his client's wishes, so maybe that was a totally honest disclaimer.

The Ken situation really bugged me, for a lot of reasons, and I don't usually disagree with Tim, but unless I wasn't paying enough attention, I didn't think there was any reason for him to say Alexander's behavior was inexcusable. He was being lighthearted, not rude. Ken knew they were moving in -- choosing to set up the ironing board *right in front of the door* seemed pretty pointed to begin with.

I am glad he's gone, though. I had enough of him about a month ago.

I was hoping I could bail on the upcoming All Stars but the line up of designers that are coming back is pretty compelling!

Oh, really? Where'd you see it? I didn't even know they were doing All Stars again.

There was an ad, I guess Alyssa Milano is hosting? Anyway, taht made me google to see who the designers are [link]

That whole thing was ridiculous. Kind of a waste of screen time, if you ask me.

Wow, they have winners competing! That should be interesting. I'm going to miss Joanna Coles, though.

Yeah, she was pretty awesome.