Is it just me, or is there an awful lot of deadweight on this season of Project Runway? Especially when you compare it to last season’s crop of megatalent (Rami, Jillian, Sweet P, Chris, Christian, and so on…). Maybe the rumors that Bravo is intentionally fucking this season up as revenge for the show’s impending move to Lifetime are true, after all. Because really, there’s a whopping five worthy competitors on this season (Korto, Terri, Kenley, Kelli, and Jerell, to be exact), the rest are just either completely worthless (Suede, Daniel, Blayne, Jennifer, Stella) or, in the infamous words of Simon Doonan, “dull slash very dull” (Joe, Wesley, Emily, Jerry, Keith, Leanne).
I’m even more salty now that I finally got around to watching this week’s episode, where one of my personal favorites (and winner of the first challenge), Kelli, got eliminated over possibly the most useless contestant of the season, Daniel. I mean, I was right there with Kenley (another favorite of mine) laughing my ass off when Daniel went into his usual spiel about how “classy” and “impeccable” his designs are. First of all, the guy has yet to make a garment that looks properly constructed (it took him how many tries to make a damned skirt for this week’s episode?), seems completely incapable of actually listening to the challenge rules (see last week’s gross and poorly made cocktail dress in a challenge about the Olympics), and he all but confessed to essentially sabotaging Kelly’s design by putting in as little effort as possible during their team challenge. Seriously, you guys, I kind of hate him. Well, not kind of - I think it’s full-blown loathing at this point!
I can’t completely blame the judges for their choice of who to kick off, since they only see the finished product (and thusly have no idea how utterly worthless Daniel was during the actual design/construction process) and will ALWAYS eliminate the losing team’s captain in a team challenge, but seriously… if Daniel manages to outlast any more of the designers with actual skill and talent this season, I’ll punch somebody. Daniel himself, preferably.
Suede would do in a pinch, though, because the third person thing just isn’t cute.
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