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Matt has been my favorite since the beginning, and he did well with the song he was given, but that song choice and his styling kind of went against everything I liked him for in his audition....he seemed a little older and mainstream, and that was not his appeal for me--I hope Adam lets him do his thing instead of trying to make him into something different. I thought Regan's song worked but I thought her styling didn't fit the song, and I find her very breathy--I'm not sure if this is her age and lack of training, but it distracted me during her song. Craig's singing was good, but his performance went a little over the top for me--he is obviously experienced, but it was a little stage-y for me. I felt like Gwen and Pharrell had little or nothing to contribute to the performances. Gwen doesn't seem to have much to say about the actual singing so she mentions their clothing when that happens, and Pharrell seemed to have polite things to say that really didn't actually say much.

I think they need to create a new position and let Chris just sit in the corner of the workroom and comment on the crazy that happens. I love that his snarky comments that are so true, but never hurtful--he has a very worldly sense of humor. I am happy to see him--he has a very unique talent and although he sometimes goes over the top with designs, when he hits it, he does it well.

I'm watching my recording today and Prince's 8 minutes made the rest of a sort of sloppy episode worth while.

I didn't mind this episode. I tend to be interested in how when we journey outside the core group and their adventures, to how other survivors of the ZA have been living, the same issues appear with people doing insane things--that would never have happened before --to survive. I am very curious about other parts of the world and how they are doing after all this, and we've been stuck in the woods and on the road with our little band of people, so I like the episodes that show other groups. It seems like the mean people rise to the top --and sometimes decent people have to become tougher and harsher to keep their lives.

The other thing I have to keep in mind is that the materials they have to work with are from JoAnn Fabric--which has a good selection of quilting cotton, home dec fabrics and shiny prom dress/bridesmaid dress fabric--so we are probably not going to get Paris at JoAnn. I kind of laughed when the winner said she'd be "set for life" if she won the prize gift certificate to JoAnn. They did win some nice sewing equipment though--and the $10,000 or whatever it was will give them lots of fabric to practice on. I think Grayson's Tokoyo design would have come out totally different if he had a better choice of fabric to work with. I remember when Christian was on PR and they showed his family, from their description...Christian WAS one of these kids at that age so he is probably uniquely qualified to be on the show. I just looked up who the heck Vanessa Simmons is, so now I know why she's annoying.

Honestly I blame how Alyssa looks--pregnant or not on whoever is styling her for this show. I see pictures of her out all the time, or on other shows and she always looks nice, but when she's on PR she looks bad most of the time.

Thank you lord Patricia's gone. I thought the jumpsuit and Chris's kilt were my favorites. I agreed with Trump's comments on Chris's outfit overall--his costume-y-ness always trips him up--that belt was off--it looked like a stage piece, not fashion. I actually didn't mind the fit on the top because his girl was pretty flat-chested but on a more curvy girl it would not have worked. Honestly I didn't really like any of the women's looks and they didn't relaly become a collection of any kind. The men --even if there were weak spots did some subtle things to pull their different looks together into a whole. Benjamin is never going to let us forget that the judges liked his dress. I didn't.

I'm probably going to hell for watching Project Runway:Special Snowflake--I end up really rooting for the most spoiled kid to lose. The kid who won was actually a nice girl, and she did a really nice job with her New York dress, and she seemed like a genuinely nice girl. Her hometown dress was not good but I thought Christian was probably on target with his thought to flip the top and bottom treatment. I loved Grayson --but I loved his grandma even more. The host telling him to jazz it up was so off target I think she really ruined him for the competition dress. I thought his original design they showed in the beginning was super simple but extremely tasteful and the main issues were in styling and fit--and for a 14 yr old boy, of course he's not going to be that experienced with those things yet. Aliyah lost. Good. I thought her Paris dress look was tasteless. I am very impressed at how restrained and positive Christian is with the kids--he gives specific feedback but he has been very careful and encouraging. He can be very outspoken, but I think since he WAS one of those kids he has a very unique perspective. I hate the host--her and "why didn't you do the crop top".

I wish they'd just put Chris March on tenure and let him show up and comment on the show for every season. He is funny but not mean and I love him. I don't really need him to sew---I've never really recovered from his human hair collection. Is Gunnar Deatherage that guy's real name? I have no memory of him or his designs but he is dressing like Carmen Ghia from the 1967 version of The Producers. I think if Patricia and Benjamin go out quickly, I think I'm good with the rest of them.

The tabloid show Extra led with the story of ABC news division taking over the view and added a story about backstage closed door fights between RO and WG to the degree that Rosie had someone timing Whoopi's on camera time compared to her time on camera. The speculation in their story was that ABC would try rotating in some people like Lara Spencer or Amy Robach (who I thought was great when she guested) and possibly bring in someone younger to join the cast to improve their appeal to younger viewers. They also mentioned bringing in someone like GMA's social media guy to add that to The View. I've been saying for about 2 years that ABC should just make one big long daytime show sort of like what NBC has done with TODAY (but hopefully better) and just rotate in the casts of GMA, The View, The Chew at different hours to feature different things. It would probably be cheaper for them in the long run.

I think Taylor is the best mentor they've had --and they've had some wonderful mentors over past seasons. The thing that I don't understand is--her talent is having a real talent for writing/performing songs that resonate with her target audience, and she puts on a good show. She isn't the best singer, she isn't the best musician, but she seems to have a sense of how to perform the songs and engage the audience. So she is teaching that amazingly well with these singers, and a number of them are really full out performing the songs--putting on a show--and then they are let go because they may have "performed" too much and not focussed enough on the singing part. But isn't becoming a professional working performer all of that? I don't understand coaching someone to full out put on a show, and then dumping them for that. I feel like several people who probably could have gone further and then parlayed their time on the show into some kind of working musical career have been let go in favor of someone who just stands and sings. Sings very nicely, but then why bother having Taylor teach them how to engage the audience and work the stage? I don't think any of the coaches are the greatest "singers" with beautiful textbook voices but every one of them are good performers and that's what made them successful.

Wendy Williams did a segment on True Tori the other day in her Hot Topics and brought up some NEW info I had not heard. She said that recently during her breakdown Tori posted something online about accepting that someone would never be there for her...and people thought it was about Dean, but then Wendy said that recently Candy has taken up with Tatum O'Neal and has been kind of treating HER like a daughter--that Candy and Tatum had come to Stella's birthday party and were all cosy and didn't have much to do with anyone else. There's season 3 of True Tori right there. If you watched Tatum and Ryan's reality show on Own, they make Tori and Dean look like Mike and Carol Brady.

For me, there was no obvious real winner, as long as Shar was out first, I was kind of meh on the three others. Amanda's collection seemed the best to me in terms of being fashion that I could see women wanting to wear in many circumstances, but I know Runway often includes things that are not wearable by many women—they are high-fashion and so extreme that it is hard to picture seeing them on regular women. I thought Amanda's work had all the elements I would want to see in a collection. Her style is not always my personal style but I definitely saw her perspective, and it seemed the most complete. I could definitely see the design concept for Sean's work—but I only thought a couple of the pieces were things that looked like clothing and not costumes. I just had issues with all the shiny fabric and fringe, and there was just a one-note-ness to the materials that bored me a little. The same pieces in a more diverse palette of materials with some dimension and texture would have been interesting to see. I think that exploration of the details will come for him with the opportunities he will get from the show—he's very young and seems to have developed a lot just during the show's filming. I think the rain dress with the dye is possibly the most brilliant thing I've ever seen on the show—just so driven by the challenge, so technically well executed, and so stunning when it walked the run-way that I want to see what he grows into. That said, I cannot see real women picking many of his looks in his show for real occasions--maybe individual pieces paire with other garments, but only a couple of the show pieces looked like things I'd see anywhere in real life but the runway. Kini lost perspective. My background is in costume design, and I have a similar tendency to get lost in the details—and lose the big picture. There were a couple of pieces I felt were ready to sell, but most things seemed like an exercise in techniques—and I just did not see the big picture direction and who the overall customer would be for his line. I love him and he was my favorite because he is such a brilliant technical sewist, but he has to begin to work from the concept down—-so you find your story and then find the technique that supports that story instead of the other way around. I hope the show moves him to a place he has the opportunities to grow—he is so good at what he does, I could see him being hired to work for a major design house and that would be a great learning platform for him. I'm left with a lot of negative feelings about the way in which the production used Shar—there is no way she was ever up to being in the final four, and altho I am sure she has learned a lot from being there, it really made me angry how they manipulated the situation over and over to keep her and use her for drama. I pretty much lost my respect for Tim during that whole Under the Gunn fiasco, but now I'm done. He did offer her a lot of direction and support—maybe more than I've ever seen him give any designer ever—but in the end, she was not ready to be there, and I felt they used her lack of skills to create drama over and over again just to make for controversy. I gave the following "Threads" about 1/2 hour and bailed. I just can't. Christian...why you do this thing?

I too knew immediately the roomate was the do-er. What a fool to google the site where he left the body. She seemed like such a cool woman, it's sad she didn't go with her gut and get him out sooner.

I thought the Thursday show was at a whole different level with RO as a moderator. I am always seeing conspiracies, so I wonder if this was some kind of opportunity to test a different setup and group by production. I loved Amy Robach on weekend Today when she co-hosted with Lester Holt--they made a wonderful team--and I thought she made good contributions to the discussion. I thought Nicolle made some decent points. I think RO is just in a different place in her life now and she is not trying to be as dominant as she may have been on past shows, and I really liked it. I don't necessarily want Whoopi gone--I don't dislike her, but I think her style of moderation needs to change an maybe the workload of introducing topics could be shared among the participants more so she is not such a strong presence.

I just saw this article, Josh is going into a Broadway show. http://www.mjsbigblog.com/voices-josh-kaufman-step-pippin-early.htm

I wonder what Bethenny would do for a story-line since Jason would probably sue her if she filmed Bryn for the show. She probably can't talk about her divorce, maybe she would film her business or the new rich boyfriend. I would like her around just for some of the commentary she used to provide even if she really doesn't have a story herself.

They gave Bob way too much camera time for no good reason, and I knew way before the ending that somehow, he was dead....um...live meat. At this point while watching the show, in addition to food and shelter, my greatest wish for them is that they all get a bath. I am literally squirmy at how filthy some of them are and how hot and sweaty they are. I know, I'd last about 10 minutes in the Zombie Apocolypse because I would just going anywhere they don't have air conditioning. I too keep wondering why some of the originals haven't told the Washington team about their trip to the CDC and what they learned there.

At some point, my attention wandered from Nancy and her family and I got really distracted by the Hee Haw guys --on their own, they were so off the hook crazy they kind of stole the show for me. That one mouthy daughter is really delusional, and I felt like the other quieter one was very dominated by her. The loud one would say something very vehemently and the quiet one would be her little echo. I too wondered about the son and what he really thinks. I felt very sorry for Nancy, because in one minute her life went from having a big perfect family to having no one. Her husband living another life, her kids siding with him.

I don't mind Richard....he kind of is how he is....needy and neurotic but he knows food, and he's a Bravolebrity so of course the are going to have him back. But where the hell is Emeril? He's my guy....he's been the heart of the show the seasons he's judged. I'm sad not to have him on this one.

I think the quieter gentler Rosie O might relate from two things--first she's in a good place in her own life with a new wife and baby, but more, I think Rosie went through something that probably had a big impact on her--which is the failure of her show on OWN. She started out doing her old style of stand up/game playing/guests and let Oprah's people build something that was pretty awful, and Rosie herself was not good in it. She finally found herself and totally revamped it right at the end, but it was too late. That final version of her show was an hour long one on one interview and it was very quiet and deep--very different from her original talk show style--and she was fantastic at it--those hour long pieces were just wonderful--and I see some of that in the interviews they've had her do on The View. The failure of her OWN show was more Oprah's than Rosie's failure--taking the show to Chicago--where she could not get timely guests all the time, and the time slot--really were just wrong, but I think that experience may have shaped some of the quieter persona we see on The View. I like it.

I felt so odd about the woman today who was reunited with her kids after 45 years. The daughter's memories seemed so at odds with the mother's story. In general when I've seen that finder guy Troy, he seems to be pretty fair minded even when one of the people has a bad history, so I am trying to think the kids were manipulated somehow. I wish they could have had someone outside of the kids/mother to speak on what really happened. Maybe it was too long ago, but the daughter was so specific and detailed about the supposed abuse by her mother it makes me wonder.

I really liked the 2 episodes this week and I think the 2 new judges are really doing a great job. I am pleasantly surprised by Gwen, she's doing much better than I expected and she's very enjoyable as a judge/mentor. I knew Pharrell would be excellent and so far, he's great. I'm hoping Blake picks up some good steals so his team is better. I think I read that Gavin's band is putting out new music after a long time, so I think that's why he's on--promoting that (as well as helping Gwen).

I've been skipping this show a lot lately--too many all-bravolebritites I don't really care about.

I am not normally a sitcom watcher, but I did see this and found the female lead character so overwhelmingly manic that it was hard to take. I know they have a lot to bring out in a pilot, and I'm not sure if she'll calm down in future episodes but I did not really like it. Not sure if it was the actress or the character but it was not enjoyable to me.