I was supremely disappointed with the output for this weeks avant garde challenge on PR. When I think back to Christian and Chris and their avant garde challenge dress, I weep! I do think the designers were a little bit hamstrung by having the avant garde challenge grafted onto the unconventional materials challenge and also by the "every challenge has to be only a day" edict since they show switched over to Bunim Murray. It's really hard to do avant garde in a day. All that said, it was slim pickings on that runway. Wasn't in love with the winner but at least the look was a little bit out of the box. The other contender literally looked like ready-to-wear just with some geegaws and grommets on it. I was also sad about the aufing although I think that the designer who got auf'ed probably deserved to go home.
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Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Top Chef: I am not really okay with where they chose to do the first quick fire. Even before the two people were decided. Ugh.
Yeah, and I'm wondering if the location influenced their decision about who would compete.
It certainly made it harder to watch
GABS: I actually thought they did a better job this time of getting the tone closer to GBBO. Except for the Paul Hollywood character mainlandsplaining (?) to the PR woman that desserts from her region are "usually cloyingly sweet". Something else he said made me raise an eyebrow too but I disremember.
I can't stand him and couldn't even before this show.
Yeah, he's a little too invested in some Bad Boy of Baking schtick. I don't like Paul Hollywood, either.
I dint recall ever seeing him before but I'm not impressed.
Neither was I. And Paul, at least, made a good target for Mel and Sue's quips (and Mary twinkled at him).
The male judge did bow down to Mary after she correctly diagnosed why a particular cake looked odd and the male judge scoffed at her idea. Mary's reaction to the word Snickerdoodle was funny.
I remember a show - I believe it may have been an earlier version of the American one that had Jeff Foxworthy as the host - and Paul Hollywood was a judge. One of the contestants - a woman from the south - was making something with chocolate, peanut butter, and bacon ... and Paul was doubtful but, on tasting it, said it was delicious.
I was pretty happy with this week's PR! I mean, not really avant grade, but they almost never are, and almost all the looks were beautiful. The way Roberi's metal moved with his model was extraordinary. Can't really argue with who went home, either. I find him personally delightful and I think his designs have gotten a LOT better since the beginning, but he's still just not really ready for Fashion Week.