I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.

Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'


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]


bon bon - Feb 28, 2008 6:54:50 pm PST #3616 of 23273
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Oh, and! Whoever wrote this description that appeared on my cable guide is a devil: "The models are tested on a photo shoot that involves speed and snow."


kat perez - Feb 28, 2008 9:00:00 pm PST #3617 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

While I agree that the ANTM girls nowadays are spoiling for the fight and the Diva edit from Day 1, Tyra's lovely show was a drama-fest even in S1 (Oh, Robin. Come back and buy $200 boots, call on Jesus, and waggle your tatas in Mr. Jay's face!)

I can't even comment on the girl's eliminations on Idol. Alaina . . . whatever. Any of the three interchangeable blonds would've been fine with me. But Alexandrea leaving was bullshit. Kady almost fell down the stairs while butchering Magic Man in a bedazzled dashiki and leggings and she stays? Once again, Kristy Lee fights a losing battle with the booty dancer inside and sings the most boring version of You're No Good ever and is safe? And I do like Amanda, but WTF on the performance. She sounded horrible and the look? Why the skunk stripes? And was she wearing flame embossed chaps? Just, no. And she really looked like she didn't even want to be there. There were many, many girls last night (including Asia "Simon was right. This song is way too big for me" Epperson) who needed to go home before Alexandrea.

I have no complaints about the boys eliminations. Other than the Davids and Danny, they all can go home anytime now.


le nubian - Feb 29, 2008 4:06:56 am PST #3618 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Alexandrea leaving was bullshit.

I completely agree. I am not happy.


Jessica - Feb 29, 2008 4:13:36 am PST #3619 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

OMGWTFPRJUDGES?

Rami's collection was fine. I mean, except for the fugly coat. The dress they were all gaga over...whatever. It was fine. It looked nice. It fit well. The big black one was better, except once they pointed out the weirdo hip thingies, I couldn't look at anything else.

Chris' collection had me going "OOH! WANT!" over Every. Single. Piece. No, it didn't have mainstream commercial appeal. But it had SO MUCH AWESOMENESS. And correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't runway collections *supposed* to be freaky and unwearable? They're supposed to show off design concepts, not someone's closet.

DH and I think that NBC/Universal should launch a goth PR next season on SciFi, and that Jilli should be their Tim.

Survivor - It's interesting to see a tribe so committed to taking out threats early in the game that they completely throw out the concept of keeping the tribe strong through the merge. They're certainly riding that fine line between clever and stupid.


Jesse - Feb 29, 2008 4:15:14 am PST #3620 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I mean, except for the fugly coat.

And then I read somewhere that he didn't show the coat in Bryant Park. A possible unthought-of advantage?


JZ - Feb 29, 2008 4:34:16 am PST #3621 of 23273
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

What Jessica Said, times a billion, except that I wasn't clever enough to think of the Jilli PR show, which would be made of awesome nine ways from Sunday.

I'm weirdly obsessed with the whole Chris/Rami competition, and I've been hovering over Project Rungay; it's bizarre how completely polarizing their designs are. It's not just that people preferred one collection over the other, but that most of the Chris-preferrers thought Rami's work was nice but not thrilling, while people who preferred Rami hated Chris's stuff with a passion. Dark, creepy, depressing, revolting, ugly, something no sane woman would wear, and anyone who says otherwise is clearly part of the Cult of Chris and in denial about the UGLY.

And several people shrugged dismissively about goth being a bad look, period, the end. Um, which goth do they mean? Industrial/post-apocalyptic? Vampire? Victorian? Steampunk? Edwardian/Edward Gorey/cupcake? "Goth looks bad" is an idiotically sweeping generalization, to be taken about as seriously as saying "Fiction is a lousy literary form."

And don't get me started about how Christian's gorgeous but unwearable-in-the-real-world designs are edgy and creative, Rami's third gown is a fantasy, but Chris's collection is pure costume.

Grrr.


Jessica - Feb 29, 2008 4:41:01 am PST #3622 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

And don't get me started about how Christian's gorgeous but unwearable-in-the-real-world designs are edgy and creative, Rami's third gown is a fantasy, but Chris's collection is pure costume.

SRSLY


Jesse - Feb 29, 2008 4:47:59 am PST #3623 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also: Rami's middle dress looked like crap with the jacket over, and wasn't flattering with the jacket off!

BANANAS.


lisah - Feb 29, 2008 4:55:21 am PST #3624 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

MMaSM: OMG, LOVED the Ben Sherman clothes so much. Holly was amazing. I wish they'd given the girls some props for doing what the boys did but in those crazy heels. I mean, COME ON!! I'm glad Shannon was safe anyway. "America" clearly wants to M a male SM out of this show. And, really, I do want Ronnie to be that SM but I hope the girls hang on for a while longer.


Kathy A - Feb 29, 2008 7:01:11 am PST #3625 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I love that EW interview with Chris!

CM: I got some of it [the hair] off Christian's head — the one side that's shorter.

EW: No you didn't!

CM: [Laughs]

I can just imagine him cackling on the phone over this! And I loved this about Tim:

EW: In terms of Tim Gunn, what's the best piece of advice he ever gave you?
CM: Tim's best piece of advice to me was the first day, and they didn't show it. He said to me, ''Nobody else in this room is Chris March, and I want to be sure that every time the judges see your stuff, they know that. I want to make sure you look at your pieces and make sure you have this quintessentially Chris March thing about them, because nobody else is you. Nobody else has your humor, nobody else has your sense of beauty.'' I was overwhelmed.