We haven’t been blogging this season’s Project Runway.

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But, man, whatever the fuck with tonight’s elimination. Christopher is still here? He’s in the final six? Christopher? WTF?

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  3. AGREED. Christopher’s outfit was one of the worst in recent memory. Those colors? That fabric? That insane silhouette? Awful, awful, awful.

    I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of Nicolas either, but I thought for sure Christopher was toast (especially since he’s been in the bottom a number of times).

    I’ve liked Irina’s stuff pretty consistently from the first episode. I’m pulling for her, Carol Hannah, and Althea as the final three (and Gordana for the #4). The men in this season were generally a disaster (though, Epperson and Ramon both did a few things I liked).

  4. @2 – yeah, I thought Shirin’s departure was a little weird too. I didn’t think she was necessarily top 3, but definitely top 5 or 6.

  5. My girlfriend was saying “Ugh, I hate Christopher’s facial hair.” I replied, “Well, after tonight, it wo –“

    “Nicolas. You are out.”

    We screamed. WTF? WTH? WTF?

  6. “We haven’t been blogging this season’s Project Runway.”

    Well it was nice while it lasted.

    Maybe you guys should just make a category called “Shows Dan Watches” instead of “TV”.

  8. @7, damn you and your spoiler alerts! I’ll give you a spoiler alert!! They kill the entire crew of the Enterprise in the next Star Trek movie. All of them dead, Earth destroyed and the Federation DEAD!!!

  9. i didn’t see last nights episode (or the last several weeks – damnit why can’t you watch it online like everything else! i have things to do in the evening people!)

    but i love chris.

  10. I know! I don’t know how Christopher has escaped the axe for so many shows! WTF is up with that? Is he sleeping with the judges or something? I was sitting there watching going “oh, there is no way they will keep him this week! They just can’t!” and then they did. How is this possible?!? Something weird is going on.

  11. Um, so called reality shows of this sort, in which the competitors are supposedly judged by their skill in a particular profession, almost always have one or two contestants hand picked by the producers to win; the rest of the competitors are divided into two classes: one consisting of persons with good but uneven talents, the second composed of obvious fifth raters completely lacking in ability.

    Sometimes the second tier folks prove to be more talented than the producers expected, and they have to be eliminated so as not to endanger the prospects of the annointed one, or two. Thus they will be kicked off as soon as they falter the least bit while an obvious no talent such as Christopher (How many times has this dimwit been in the bottom two?) will be allowed to continue.

    That’s right, it’s a con game folks and, guess what, you’re the mark. But, hey, it’s still fun to watch, right?

  12. Yeah, I think that Nicholas was robbed! I mean come on, has anyone ever been in the bottom three for four weeks – in a row – and survived?
    PR did this with Santino too – kept him for ratings.
    Nicholas will get the last laugh, he’s very talented!

  15. Christopher couldn’t be eliminated, because he had one element that didn’t suck: the belt. Nicolas had zero non-sucking elements. Plus he’s a moronic little twit who doesn’t know how to use shampoo. They got this one right.

    The notion that they keep Christopher for ratings is absurd. He’s a drip. No one could possibly be watching this show to see him.

    The problem with this season is that none of the designers are very talented, none of them have a personality, and almost none of the challenges have been interesting in any way. The shameless way this challenge promoted Michael Kors’s latest line (which is UNBELIEVABLY TRITE AND HIDEOUS) is embarrassing. They are floundering. I guess it’s what they have to do to keep him on the show.

    LA has been a terrible mistake. They’ve done NOTHING to take advantage of what LA has to offer, and their judges don’t want to fly out there. Without Ol’ Persimmon Face and Nina, the show is nothing. But god damn, the challenges! And the fabric! Mood appears to have gone out of their way to assemble the worst collection of fabric ever seen — monochromatic and schlubby.

    In LA! Did you see the surfer challenge? Beige, black, grey. The Bob Mackie challenge? Beige, black, grey, silver. I guarantee I can find more appropriate fabrics online in ten minutes than the entire Mood palette all season.

    You can tell how terrible this season is going just by looking at Tim Gunn’s face. I don’t think he’s coming back next season. I don’t know if the SHOW is coming back, or if it even should. They’ve really fucked up an interesting concept.

  16. I couldn’t believe Christopher (or as the Project Rungay cartoonist calls him, Chinstrap) was safe! I was shocked. Shocked I tell you!

    By Lesbian, you weren’t “talented” in a consistent way, but you didn’t deserve the loss.

  17. The show is getting lifetime some of it’s highest ratings. I’m sure they’ll bring it back in some form.

    Nicholas probably shouldn’t have been elinated this round. I would say that should have happened a bit sooner. He seems to be a bit of a one trick pony. But yeah, there’s no reason for christopher to still be there at this point.

  18. Project Runway stopped being good after Season 2. Now it’s just about designers who copy what other designers have already done before.

    I mean I haven’t gone a show in several years without seeing stuff on the show that you can’t find at Nordstroms, Barneys of New York or Walmart’s bargin bins.

  19. @15, agreed, moving to LA has killed the show – it brought it down to the level of America’s Next Top Model… it has removed itself from any real context in the fashion industry, without doing anything particularly interesting with LA to show that the industry could potentially widen its gaze. If there’s a next season, they should either (1) make a fresh return to NY, or (2) choose another city and make it a traveling show. Calico Corners, get ready.

  22. I was talking to my roommate about this last night. Here are the three conclusions we came to:

    A) If Logan were ugly, he would have been eliminated a long time ago. His designs are unexceptional and he adds nothing to the show via his insight/commentary as it relates to… well… anything.

    B) The contestants are well-aware that they’re not being kept around purely based on talent. As a result, they’ve been slacking off, big-time.

    C) Watching the show on Lifetime isn’t nearly as fun as watching it on Bravo. (We watch it in real time with all of the commercials and what-not.) IMO, Lifetime caters to women in a way that’s borderline sexist. The ads are: Sherri, Rita Rocks and cleaning products. What’s next? Blenders?

  24. Plus (in addition to all of the other things totally wrong w/this season) the judging, always quixotic, has been particularly odd this season.

    Mr. Gunn is too good for this silliness.

  25. I call him The Crier. His clothes are ugly. I wanted him to be gone.

    Meanwhile, Milla Jovovich was hysterical with her sharp tongued little In-Your-Face-Heidi reply of, “Look, if this was Project I Didn’t Mind It, he would win!”

  26. i quit watching when they cut ra’mon weeks back. all life and credibility has been beat from that show over the years.

    i’m so over it.

  27. Why would anybody care enough anymore about Project Runway to whine about spoilers? Spoilers save you the torment of watching this terrible terrible season.(I have it on while paying bills or looking at job boards) Really none of them deserve to win (I know it was filmed over a year ago, did they even show at Bryant Park?). A few can continue their careers as assistants or at the Columbus OH mall store conglomerates(American Eagle, A&F, etc). The rest need to be banished from fabric stores and sewing machines.

    At least Top Chef still as the suspense that one of the hacks will knock off any the anointed talented four (SPOILER ALERT!!!! Kevin, Jen, and Voltaggios still in!)

  31. Pllllease don’t blog about Project Runway. Some of us don’t have cable and have till Saturday when Lifetime (gag) posts the latest episode online!

    Also, hurry to Portland.. I’m ready for Hump!

  32. I’m with Fnarf on the assessment of this season. I haven’t been as interested in the contestants and the overall quality of the designs has been pretty bad. Plus, the Michael/Nina absenteeism problem. I don’t get as upset about the challenges, really. Mainly because most of the designers haven’t known what to do.even with fairly straightforward challenges.

  35. OMG, the fuss about Logan being “sexy”?!? Sexy is someone with an actual personality. Maybe it is just the TV, but he seems to have NO personality at all! BORING!

  37. @32, it’s the boring challenges that are CAUSING the boredom and boringness of the designers. “Make a pretty dress” is seriously lame. Whatever happened to making garments out of car parts or lettuce?

  39. @37 – I totally agree with your assessment of this season. It’s pretty much what TLo have also been saying at Project Rungay. Another big part of the problem with this season has been the lack of Michael and Nina. As a result, the judging hasn’t been consistent and a lot of crap has passed that would have been tossed long before. Entertainment Weekly had an interview with Nina recently where she said as much. For the past few weeks, they have auf’d designers that I thought would have been in the final 3.

    As for your comments about Tim Gunn, I give you this – http://projectrungay.blogspot.com/2009/1…

    Season 6 has been filmed, however. It’s back in NYC, the whole cast is back, and Michael and Nina are there for the whole season. And Tim will probably be back in pinstripes and not jeans.

  40. They did have the newspaper one, which was pretty interesting, I thought (the movie one wasn’t bad either). The challenges as a whole have been less interesting, for sure (especially since I do like the garden-party-type challenges).

    But, I keep thinking, oh, good, this challenge is going to give them more freedom and it will be neat to see what they come up with. And then… 80% of the designs are crap. I think this is what is contributing to my poor opinion of the designers this season — at least in past seasons, if a dress was crap, it might have been because someone had a crazy idea about working with corn husks that didn’t pan out. Now it’s like, wow, you just couldn’t come up with anything better than that nonsense.

  41. I was as sure as I’ve ever been that Christopher was going home…and then they sent Nicholas (who I don’t even like that much, but preferred in this challenge to Christopher) HOME. A HUGE WTF moment!!!

  42. Yeah definitely based on the bryant park photos Shirin, and carol hannah. LOTS OF COWLS!

    the third is anyone’s guess. could even be Giordanna….

  43. to all you whiners about spoilers.

    Please accept this as an inevitable part of the modern meshing of live TV, DVR/Online tv and post watching internet discussion.

    If you don’t watch a show within the night of it airing, it is not the rest of the internets job to protect you from the results. Here is an easy tip for you: When you see a blog post entitled “Tonight’s Project Runway” SKIP IT. Don’t read it. Move along. Come back when you have seen it.

    It. Is. That. Simple.

  44. Akbar, I’m more bothered that people want to spoil the entire season for know-it-all status. Otherwise, I don’t expect zipped lips till the seasons ending.

  45. Shelby, your comment at 31 seems to say otherwise.

    As for who’s in the final. You didn’t have to read the comments here. But my advice goes the same. The opening line of “the top three…” should immediately make you look away. And, its pure conjecture based on photos and concepts.

    Again, not others responsibility for your inability to look away.

  46. @ 9, 31, and anyone else who can’t watch the show when it airs:

    Go to surfthechannel.com, where you can magically find almost any new TV show within a few hours of it airing on TV. No need to mess around with commercials or stupid promotional things like on Hulu or the networks’ websites, and no need to complain about spoilers.

    The only downside is that you do occasionally run into poor video quality, but for popular shows there are usually so many different links that it just takes a minute or two of clicking to find a good one.

  47. @shelby, I totally get your enthusiasm for the show. I was right there with you before the whole Weinstein vs. NBC/Bravo debacle left it in limbo for nearly a year. Add to that the really disappointing choice of producers (what’s next, Project Runway Cabo?) and the addition of the Models of the Runway show and it has become more of a drama circus and less a fashion competition.

    I am sorry if I came off as a dick posting those links but those pictures represent the only thing I like about the show-the fashion and at this point, I’d rather just cut to the chase.

  48. @47, “more of a drama circus”? There’s no drama at all, unless “will Logan poke Carol Hannah?” counts as drama. God knows “Irina, say something bitchy” isn’t. This is the least dramatic crew they’ve ever had. Irina couldn’t hold Wendy Pepper’s jockstrap.

  49. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION. KILL YOUR TELEVISION.

    Television – not booze, not drugs, not sex, not cigarettes, not politics, not religion – is the worst addiction in this country. All that time just sucked out of your life while watching corporate financed horseshit will never be seen again.

  51. @49: What happened, you had a traumatic experience while watching Gilligan’s Island? Television, like masturbation, is a relaxing diversion as long as one doesn’t do it obsessively.

  52. Uh… anyone complaining that people are giving away the final three designers… look closely. They’re saying Shirin is in the final 3. Before you consider these people a reliable source, consider that Shirin was auf’d.

  54. 12: But Santino was actually /interesting/, in his designs, even if he was obnoxious.

    I could handle the whole “Lifetime!” then “LA!” even could tolerate the “OMG PRODUCT PLACEMENT!!” but the nail in the coffin was when that one guy; Mr.”Sent a Naked Model Down The Runway”; survived THREE. EPISODES. I just couldn’t stand to watch it any longer.

  55. Let’s be honest, this show isn’t just about the designs, it’s about legions of gay fans imagining the cute male designers being their boyfriends. That’s why the hot Mormon guy lasted far longer than he should have last season, and that’s why Christopher is still here. A good backstory (“I’M GAY! AND MORMON!” or “I’M POOR AND COMPLETELY SELF-TAUGHT”) can give a mediocre designer a lot more longevity than he’d have otherwise.

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