Trash Project Runway Recap #2
Whoa boy! Did the crazy come out last night or what!?
Because I don’t want to spoil anything for the Project Runway fans who’ll watch the encore episode on NBC Monday night at 8 pm, I’m going to hide my gushing/ranting behind the cut. So click to continue reading, unless you don’t wanna know what happened.
Last night the designers find out they get to design an evening gown for Miss USA, Tara Conner. The winning gown will be worn in the eveningwear competition when she competes for the title of Miss Universe. Fancy! Pageant fanatic Kayne, who has been designing pageant dresses for years and even owns a boutique in his hometown, is stoked. The catch is, they have to work in pairs.
Everyone sketched out their ideas based on Tara's requirements (earth tones, bare back, no plunging front), and then Tara picked her seven favorite designs. The favorites became the team leaders, and the teams would create the dress based on their design. Here's how they paired up (team leaders are bold): Keith with Bradley, Malan with Katie, Uli with Bonnie, Jefferey with Alison, Kayne with Robert, Laura with Michael, and Vincent, crazy crazy Vincent, got stuck with Angela, who (despite her 30 minutes of sucking up to him during the sketching period), didn't get picked by Kayne (she was clearly looking for a free ride, that hag).
During the dress executions, Malan, who I've admittedly been frightened of since the start, showed a sensitive side by confessing that when he was a young teen, his mother once threw his book of sketches on the floor and told him to never, ever sketch again. He was doing this to prove to her that he can do it. Awe! Maybe he's not a monster!
So everyone is working fairly well together (especially Robert and Kayne, who keep giggling...) and there are no big problems until the camera pans to Vincent and Angela, who are about three minutes away from killing each other even before they've picked out the fabric! Vincent refuses to allow Angela to help when she asks (he thinks she's completely incompetent) so Angela just sits there and does nothing, refusing to take any credit for how the dress turns out (good or bad) and nagging him about time limits. She'd snap at him, he'd snap at her! She'd totally diss the dress, he'd tell her to step three feet away.... Oh man! It was so great! And at one point Tim says to Vincent about his unfinished dress "I'm disappointed.” Vincent gleefully responds "Oh, that's okay!” He's crazy, remember?
Now let's skip ahead to the runway show. Now I know that Tara's requirements didn't allow for anything too flashy or exciting, but was anyone else surprised by the lack of awesome? Man! What a bunch of boring all those dressed turned out to be!
It was no surprise that Kayne and Robert's dress won, despite a risky pick of an iridescent purple/brown fabric. It was the most pageanty. But Uli and Bonnie's dress was pretty too. The flowing layers of fabric looked lovely when it went down the runway. The rest? Boring, boring, and pretty, but boring.
The mediocre were excused from the runway, and then it came down to two. Malan and Katie's dress was too short and unfinished. It was heavy, dark... not well done at all. And the lack of teamwork (read: brawling) between Vincent and Angela didn't impress the judges (the dress didn't completely either). Katie and Vincent were excused, so the final decision came down to Malan and Angela. One had to go home.
Yes, Malan's dress was a disaster, but Angela is the DEVIL! If they don't kick off Angela, I swear to God I'll... "Angela, you are... IN."
GODDAMMIT!! Are you kidding me!? Just as I was starting to feel like he may not be a complete creep, Malan was sent home.
This show is already killing me and it's only the second episode.
The previews for next week show Bradley (swoon!) having a difficult time with whatever the assignment is. And it's his BIRTHDAY! I hope they don't get rid of him yet. He's quiet, yes, but I think he could be awesome if they keep him around long enough. And I can't wait to see Laura go off on Keith. She calls him a shithead! And the drama begins...
Malan is a fraud. Fake accent. Fake history. Can't wait until the rags break out his true story! I agree, this season rocks!!!