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My interpretation is that Portia doesn't give a shit about the title, just the money and the property. The baron title can't go to her first grandson by one of the girls, but the estate can, and the estate inheritance from her late husband to the firstborn son of his daughters is what she had Varley forge. It also works out for her as a convenient retroactive excuse for why Jack was engaged to Prudence- because he knew the property would go to the first son of one of the girls and wanted to keep it for his own family. She could really paint him as an absolute villain who not only scammed thousands of pounds out of the ton, but took advantage of her daughter. Since he stole their money, I think the ton would be amenable to that extra evil, and it would help Prudence's reputation recover. And since Jack fled the country and would be a wanted felon, I don't think solicitors would look too closely at a newly discovered codicil to the late Lord Featherington's will that disinherits his heir, especially if it looks official enough. And I think we're meant to assume that Lord Featherington had the power to separate the estate from the heir of the title if he wanted to. The guy slapped the deed to his home onto a table as a gambling bet.

one thing I'm a but confused on is the timeline of Kate's dowry deal with the Sheffields. When did she initially reach out to them? Was it basically however long it took after their father died for the money to start getting tight? A few months maybe? Because it must have taken years for Edwina to be trained to be the perfect prospective aristocratic bride. I wonder if she wrote when she was in the promoted-to-parent phase of her mother's grief, just like Anthony was during Violet's grief. would explain why she never told them about it- Edwina would have just been a child and Mary would have been too into her mourning for Kate to want to burden her. And then after you keep a secret like that initially, it becomes more and more impossible to disclose it. Especially since the plan was for Edwina to fall in love with a nobleman so that she'd never need to know. But then, there was that talk about how they used the last of their money to sail to England and find Edwina a husband as if it was a last, desperate effort and not the culmination of a years long plan. It's just not that clear to me.

my take on Penelope using Lady W to out Marina in a last ditch effort to save Colin when nothing else worked was that she felt horrible about it at the time- looking back at her running to sob in Eloise's arms, which was right before the scandal was published- after we learn she's Lady W casts that moment in a different light- but that she felt she had run out of every other option and became desperate after finding out they were about to elope. But truly and honestly, she absolutely did not exhaust every option before deciding to blow up the whole situation into a scandalous conglomeration that ruined her family and Marina. She should have just told Colin the truth. Boom. Problem solved. If you're gonna expose the secret to literally all of society and ruin your whole family and Marina, and this includes you by association anyway, why would you shy away from telling Colin or at least Eloise the truth so that she could tell Colin if you're too shy or embarrassed to be the one to do it? No scandal, or at least the much smaller scandal of a broken engagement, and Colin can protect himself or confront Marina or choose to marry her anyway with all the facts. So I definitely think there was an aspect of immature vindictiveness in choosing to publish it. A part of her wanted to hurt Marina after Marina had hurt her, but she's not a bad person, so she felt terrible about it after the fact, and especially felt horrible after Marina apologized to her and she understood just how horrible Marina's situation is.

I just started watching this show a couple weeks ago and marathoned through and now am rewatching this one because Frank and Brianna's relationship is such a sweet spot for me and I just have to say- omg, I just cannot get over how ludicrous Brianna's plan is. Just takes me right out of the episode because it's so nonsensical it feels like a plot hole. So she goes through the stones and decides she's gonna walk and/or hopefully hitch a ride hundreds of miles to a port in the dead of winter? THAT is her plan? Two things. First, Inverness is RIGHT THERE. You can literally see it from the stones! It's a sizable city that probably has a carriages that can take her exactly where she wants to go! Second, she knows her father's family is at Lallybroch, also in the general vicinity. And she doesn't think to go there either? I understand if she doesn't particularly care about meeting Jamie's family or seeing his home, because her priority is to get to Fraser's Ridge ASAP and that's all she's thinking about, and her relationship to Jamie's side of the family is more an abstract concept to her than a reality at this point in time- but surely she would consider they could help her get to her parents, or get in touch with them? It's so insanely fortunate for her that she just happens in run into Uncle Ian by pure chance, who readily believes she's a long lost niece he never knew about and supplies her with all the money and supplies and transportation she'll need to continue on this journey, smh. Would have been nice to see Jamie and Claire get a letter from Jenny and Ian later on demanding an explanation. I really wish we had gotten to see Brianna's planning process. Like, she told her roommate she was visiting her mother, left a letter for Roger in case she never made it back, and took the time to put together a passingly appropriate period outfit and pack a map and lunch, and presumably some money for a transatlantic voyage. As far as we know that's literally it. We know she wasn't intending her trip to become a permanent stay, but I'm just really curious about how much time and effort she spent preparing for it, and if it's contradictory to her seeming total lack of forethought or common sense that we actually see her display in this episode. Like, her name is on the house in Boston and all the bank accounts. I'd like to know if she secured the maintenance of her things and finances for an extended period of time of being out of town and unreachable. With Roger, I can headcanon that Fiona is taking care of all his shit and paying the bills while he's gone, since she knows what happened to him and it's easy to imagine him setting that up with her before leaving. But Brianna's roommate seemed utterly clueless that she was literally about to drop off the face of the earth and not just visiting her mother for a few weeks. She's gonna be blindsided when Brianna has basically gone missing. One thing that occurred to me this time around with Frank knowing about the obituary that has now become headcanon until proven otherwise- clearly he had found and been keeping track of Jamie for awhile by that point, since he knew where to look. The obit is probably the first time he found evidence of Claire having travelled back, but all the other stuff- the transfer of the deed to Lallybroch to the Murrays with Claire's witness signature, the prison records- he probably found all that stuff on his own too. You know what he also probably found? The passenger manifests from the 18th century. The ones mysteriously missing from the national archives when Claire, Brianna and Roger were looking for evidence of Jamie in episode 3x04. So strange that the 17th century was available, but not the relevant years from the 18th century they needed. You know who signed a passenger manifest this episode? Brianna Randall. Total headcanon that Frank will have seen that at some point and knew Brianna was gonna go through the stones, and he's the reason why those archives were missing. Man I wish the time travel stuff was a part of a bigger, overarching myth arc type thing in this show, rather than a random inexplicable fantasy plot device.

I'm just relieved I didn't cringe too much about Sergio this week. He was acting like an almost normally confident person for the majority of the time, which was a refreshing change of pace. It started to turn into awkward narcissism towards the end of the design day when he knew he nailed it, but for the most part, he was fine. And I did think his dress was beautiful, including the fringe. he's much easier to take when his overconfidence is somewhat justified. It just doesn't happen a lot. I didn't like Marquise's dress and was shocked that he was on the top along with Britney and Delvin. I don't think he deserved to be on the bottom, but I think I would have had him swap places with Delvin. I personally find Nancy tiresome, but I like her designs for the most part. It's interesting that she's apparently friendly with Sergio, which you'd never guess after watching the rest of the season. I think there's definitely some storyline and deceptive editing going on. Victoria is doing herself no favors by broadcasting to the entire fashion industry that she can't handle stress or criticism. She strikes me as the type of person who probably hasn't ever had to deal with constructive criticism, so it doesn't surprise me that she flew off the rails and didn't know what to do the second she was on the receiving end of it.

I just finished watching the whole series, and I love it. I watched All My Children religiously as a kid, so the elements of soapy cliche melodrama were very recognizable tropes, and rather than bother me, they felt like nostalgic comfort food. I loved the final season for the most part. I think the only thing I would have changed would be for there to have been more show, less tell when it came to pairing up Olivia and Andrew. I actually got into the possibility of that ship when the baby buying plot was going on in season one (or two? can't remember). Their relationship had depth to it, and a base upon which to build an interesting romance with a single Olivia. I love that she unwittingly disarmed him just by being so genuine and trusting and made him feel like a total heel for betraying her. I just feel like, rather than inferring through the barest of clues that Andrew was haunted by guilt over what he did to her and became a better person in large part due to that guilt, I'd have liked to see it. Even just showing them meeting up again at that yacht party, and he sees her and goes out of his way to offer an utterly contrite, heartfelt apology would have been enough. Like, if a scene like that was a flashback that we see rather than Olivia just telling Anna that they met and got together and he's such a good man doing good work now, I would have no complaints at all. I would rather have seen him being kind to her and expressing genuine remorse than be told he's such a good guy because he rescues refugees now, which just felt like too much and made me role my eyes. As it is, it kind of felt like he was just tacked on in the end so that Olivia could have a happy ending and a blonde granddaughter. I didn't mind at all that they revealed Matt was super controlling and Bad News, and it didn't feel like it came out of nowhere, because he was such a blank slate in season 5. All we really knew about him is that he was immediately drawn to staid, lonely, separated, single mother Olivia over glamorous, independent party girl hot mess Anna, and that he was the permanently estranged, disowned son of the kindest man in the world. And like Elizabeth, that never sat right with me given Douglas's characterization. I'd be more disappointed if Matt wasn't revealed as super sketchy in some way, tbh, so it didn't surprise me in the least that his characterization turned in such a way that he probably fell in love with Olivia in large part because he wanted someone he could dominate. She does give off apparent weakness as a first impression. It's why James married her, why Andrew targeted her to manipulate, why Lloyd decided to use her. So striking that in the same episode Matt is arguing to Elizabeth that Olivia is a fragile girl, James reassures Olivia that she's the strongest woman he knows. Of the two, I know who I would choose as the guy who really loves and respects her. Wouldn't surprise me at all to learn Matt's ex who fled with their child ran for much the same reason Olivia did. I guess I wish we learned more about that before he just up and disappeared as quickly as he showed up out of nowhere. As it stands, whatever the circumstances were that led to his ex fleeing with their child is my headcanon for why Douglas disowned him. And all this drama with Olivia's canceled engagement to the man she intended to be Georgie's replacement father and dredging up the issue of the illegal adoption served as a natural way to bring James back into Olivia's story, which I like because the arc of their relationship has always been a highlight for me. it made me happy that James and Olivia settled into good friends and co-parents. I was very disappointed in James for being willing to just totally abandon Georgie, but the fact that it looks like they reestablish that bond post Matt makes up for it. And I also love that James is kind of serving as this reasonable third party in season 6. He's not on either Matt or Olivia's side on the issue with contacting Georgie's birth mother. He sees Matt's point that Georgie's birth mother may have given him up of her own free will or she may not have and it's been torturing her, and the problem is that they just don't know and it's wrong to continue on if they don't know, and he sees Olivia's point that she is Georgie's mother in every way that matters and this woman has never once tried to find her son, at least in any way that Olivia would know about, and it's possible tracking her down and reminding her of the circumstances surrounding this birth could wind up being extremely cruel for everyone involved. And then the truth is somewhere in the middle- the birth mother absolutely gave him up willingly, the circumstances of his conception and birth were traumatically cruel, but she also needed the closure of knowing he was a sweet, happy boy being raised by a loving family. But I just kind of love that James represents the neutral opinion of "I just don't know what's right here" rather than having a firm notion one way or the other, because that's certainly how I felt. I think I would have sided with Matt's reasoning if he wasn't such an emotionally abusive, controlling ass about it. Like, just fucking tell her why this is hitting close to home! Don't go all moralistic and self-righteous and try to turn her family against her, Mr. Red Flag! And seriously, when you get to the point where the doctor is telling you the birth mother hasn't tried to find the baby and hinting very heavily that she gave the baby up willingly due to some sketchy circumstances, just fucking stop right there! Good riddance to that jerk. And I also appreciated James being Henry's advocate when it came to Anna's pregnancy. I genuinely was so disappointed that it was even a question for her over whether to tell him when 1)she's keeping the baby,2) he's such a loved friend and 3)she knows he wants to be a father and is extremely unlikely to ever have another chance to be a father. Like, I don't even know how she could contemplate not telling him. Yes, I know it's her body, her choice, but there is nothing at all objectionable about Henry and every reason to believe he would only be a wonderful father and a positive addition to her baby's life. And it is also his child. As soon as Anna decided to carry that pregnancy to term and bring a person into the world, I feel like Henry had a right to know and decide if he wanted to be involved. Paternal rights is murky territory though, because it opens a can of ethical worms over abortion rights. I guess I come down on the side of- no one has the right to force someone to be pregnant, but fathers have a right to know if they have a child when it's born, and should probably get a say in custody, unless it's a case of rape or something. It's really not a subject I think about a lot though, tbph, even though it probably should be. Not interested at all in engaging in a debate about this on a fandom forum, but I like that the show made me think about things like this. I'm too complacent in my political views, and this whole story made me consider stances I don't usually think about. On a lighter note, I LOVED Harry/Henry. With James out of the picture, they could have just felt like pairing the spares and been written so thoughtlessly, but I actually found their relationship to be much more interesting and sweet than the James/Henry relationship, which felt less like a romance and more like a personal character journey for James, imo. But I just love that I can go back and watch those episodes in season 4, like- James taking Harry to the party in spite of Harry's class reservations, and Henry is in the midst of being blackmailed by his boyfriend's aunt/stepmother, so he's drunk and Not In The Mood, so when James ~Significantly Introduces~ them, Henry is just this utterly rude, dismissive asshole who writes Harry off immediately. I can go back to that scene and laugh about how he has no idea that beautiful country boy is actually the love of his life, if only he knew. I love that class conflict is a consistent theme with Harry. He was conscious of being written off as rough trade when it came to the posh queer community that James and Henry are part of, and he got in Henry's face for falling back on being just that kind of snob when Henry was hurt and rejecting him, not having the perspective that Sarah gives him of how justifiably scared and lost Henry is without his career, which is a huge part of his identity. I love the subtle misunderstandings that are revealed, like, Harry accuses Henry of privilege because his parents could afford to send him off to school, but then Henry reveals to Sarah that his mother disowned him when she found out he was gay, and he thought being a surgeon would make him worthy of her love again, but nope. Stuff like that. Like, Harry reads him mostly right, but is missing some crucial details with his blanket assumptions. Also, it's pretty easy to interpret Henry's vehement initial rejection of Harry as due in large part to being attracted to him, besides associating him with James. Because Harry's initial overtures are really so innocuous that Henry's defensive overreaction to them really says it all. In any event, I love that Harry never stops making friendship overtures and softens so much after Sarah talks to him. I love that Henry instinctively stops his car outside Harry's farm, and then just stays there because he feels safe. I love that Henry is at a party and stares at the door the entire time hoping that Harry will walk in, I love that Harry walks in looking like a perfect romantic dream, and that Henry is just totally smitten and breathless when he see him, I love that some dude is crooning The Wonder of You in the background as this is happening, and I love that Henry's declaration of forever is "I'm yours" and Harry is just SHOOK. I love that they grow old together and live to get married as nonagenarians. I just love everything about them. They really just absolutely made this season for me. Onto Carolyn and Jack! Omg, how painful were these guys! I think the scene were Carolyn is making the overture to Jack in his office in the finale is one of the best scenes in the whole show. I didn't mind Dehlia being introduced and representing the conflict in that marriage. The groundwork for their rough patch was laid in season 5. Caro was so bored she was breaking into strangers' houses and stealing artwork! It makes total sense to me that she would become bored in that life after marrying him and settling down back at Ash Park, considering who she was and the life she was living when we first met her. She had to lose him for real to realize she didn't want to lose him after all, and that's the way it works for some. I teared up when they reunited, ngl.

Okay, I've been watching all season and started feeling this way a couple weeks ago, and it really peaked last week and thankfully subsided this week because he wasn't in it for much of the episode, but OMG, I can barely even look at the screen whenever Sergio is speaking. Project Runway has had it's share of assholes and cringe-y people before, and none of them have ever made me so uncomfortable watching them as Sergio does. I really really hope he's just playing up a character rather than being mostly authentic, because I can't even be annoyed at him anymore. I genuinely think he's mentally unwell, so much so that it's nowhere even near entertaining to watch him be so lacking in self awareness. I think the fact that they're showing how much the other contestants don't like him and think he's not talented, while also not showing him being aware that that's what everyone thinks of him, is just making it worse. I hate watching people interact when one person is interacting in good faith but is lacking the social awareness to understand that the other person is putting on a front of politeness until they go away. It's just really awful. I'm not defending him, but I don't like being in this position of feeling pity for someone who is coming across as a delusional narcissist.

As much as I'm genuinely enjoying this, it is so extremely hard to get past the idea that the lie that is the central premise for this season's conflict makes no dramatic sense at all because Bonnie pushing Perry in that circumstance was completely justifiable, and it's not even up for debate. If the drama comes more from Madeleine impulsively deciding to lie about it for whatever reason and thus needlessly forcing the rest of them to go along with it and creating a problem where there otherwise wouldn't be one, then that's something at least. There's been hints of that, like this episode when she immediately decided to spin an yarn about needing Celeste's help with an emergency to Mary Louise, when the truth (or at least what Celeste told her and the police) is relatively innocuous and understandable for a grieving widow, so I'm hopeful this will feel less clumsy moving forward. Other things- Renata is so fucking extra and I adore her. I kind of love that we have these different marriages going through hardship, and seeing the comparison over how they're handling it and what it says about the marriages and the characters in them. Like, Nathan is super weird with Ed for some reason I don't get, but I think he's genuinely a good dude and a good husband and trying to save his marriage. I don't agree with Bonnie's mother about him not having any emotional intelligence. He was very honest with Bonnie about the fact that he's tried to talk to her and she won't respond to him, and he was obviously hurt and showing her that he was hurting when they were arguing and he told her about what his experience with divorce taught him about marriage. And they end the episode in a stronger place than they started. I feel like Bonnie is going to confide the truth in him. And it will just be one more secret someone else knows that involves Madeleine that Ed doesn't know. Speaking of- Then we have Madeleine and Ed, who on the surface appear to be the most stable, but that's only because Madeleine doesn't confide or express anything to him really, neither joy nor discontent. He completely had a point when he wondered what "us" even was with them. And I think he was less hurt by the revelation that Madeleine cheated- I always thought that he figured it out at trivia night and made the conscious decision to let it lie- than by the fact that she told Abigail, someone he has raised and loved as his stepdaughter since she was a little girl. And that is entirely unacceptable and humiliating. And while I agree with Madeleine that he didn't really have a right to know about Jane being raped and Perry being Ziggy's father, if Madeleine is going to blab about it on the phone to her friends, in their house when their daughter is at home, in such detail that Chloe can overhear her talking and know the truth, then that does change things. That's his daughter. He has a right to not be blindsided by finding out his daughter has revealed to her friends that they secretly have the same dad, that he couldn't even tell her she shouldn't do something like that because he didn't know himself. He was perfectly right to worry that Chloe knew about Madeline cheating too, since everyone besides him appears to know all of Madeleine's secrets. It's one thing to not treat him like a husband and partner and confide in him, it's another to not respect him as a father and an equal as a parent. But even though I loved the scene and Madeleine seriously needed that reality check/wake-up call, I hope he doesn't leave entirely because I love Adam Scott and don't want him to go, and because I really really want them to have scenes with the therapist, who after all, is a marriage counselor. They are in dire need. Finally there's Renata and Gordon, who are fucking hilarious together. He broke the law and lost all her money and is going to destroy her reputation, which is as unforgivable and divorceable a series of offenses as I have ever seen, but she's gonna go down to the county lock up and commiserate with him about it being bullshit that you go to prison for securities fraud, she's gonna attend his plea hearing and post bond, she'll scream at him about it in the car and kick him out on the side of the highway, but ultimately she'll turn around and pick him back up rather than abandon him there. I couldn't decide what his expression was when he looked at her after he got back into the car, like this mixture of disbelieving exasperation with her Extra antics but ultimately he does love her and they appear more solid to me so far than the other couples. The moment where Mary Louise revealed that the twins told her they have a brother was so heart stopping and unexpected and so so good. Kids know everything.

Also, I didn't notice Tessa among the group of eliminated contestants who showed up for the runway show. I think I spotted everyone else there but her. Was she there?

I'm so relieved Sebastian won. They were trying to fake us out with DVF adoring Hester, and it was making me tense. Would have screamed if he didn't win. I didn't dislike her collection though. I'm actually surprised I liked Hester and Garo's collections as much as I did. But I could not at all get over that one outfit of Hester's that literally looks like one of Cher's outfits straight from Clueless, you know the one. Apparently the judges loved it and Hester created a cool print for it and everything, and I'm sorry I couldn't appreciate the innovative things about it, but all I saw was Cher cosplay. I felt bad for Garo dealing with a Kate disaster. I couldn't really tell from looking at her, but did she really lose so much weight between the regular season and the finale that the dress Garo designed for her had to be altered that much to fit? Or did he just get her measurements wrong? I don't know anything really about modeling, but if she lost a lot of weight such that it would screw up a design built specifically to her measurements, is that a huge modeling fuck up?

I feel like I'm going insane, lol. I HATED Hester's look. HATED. IT. Like, I wanted to cover my eyes as it came down the runway, I thought it was so ridiculous and ugly. And then they were all talking about how wonderful and wearable(!?) it is and gave her the win, and I just. I am speechless about how much I don't understand what just happened. The only thing I agree with is Renee's look being the loser. I don't understand why Team Lela, Sebastian, and Tessa didn't get the top spot. I guess Morena Baccarin has deplorable taste? the only look I liked at all in the top group was Bishme's. He should have won. Hester does not deserve to have won three times. Just because she has a consistently executed aesthetic doesn't mean it's a good aesthetic. WHY DO THEY KEEP IGNORING SEBASTIAN!!???!!

Forgot to mention, but I wish any attention besides absolutely none was paid to Renee's look so I could actually take it in. It was very different from everyone else's take on the challenge, and I think Brandon didn't like it when he saw it on the runway, but besides the few seconds of the runway show, we didn't see it really at all. Was that deliberate? Do they just want to keep Renee and so did everything they could to divert attention away from this look that was maybe not so great and might have deserved some critique? I don't remember much of it, but I remember noticing it had a lot going on, which was discouraged for a take on "elegant". Maybe it was amazing. I don't know, I didn't get to see it. Also, I feel like Garo and Tessa should have swapped models. I feel like Kate was washed out by Garo's silver dress and Asia(Is that her name?) would have rocked it, and Kate would have looked a lot better in Tessa's dark colors than Asia did.

It feels so ironic to me that Sonia went home on the "design something elegant" challenge. I went back to look at all her designs, and her stuff, with maybe one or two exceptions, has been some of the most elegant work of the whole competition so far. I honestly don't really know who I feel should have gone home, since Hester is the only one who created something reprehensible enough to deserve it and she had immunity. No, you did not make pasties elegant, Hester. You just wanted to be shocking and came off obnoxious. And you knew it was going to be awful too, because you only decided to take this "risk" when you had immunity, so I know you didn't have faith in any sort of vision. I feel like the editing of the two in the bottom who didn't have immunity made it clear that the narrative wants us to accept that they made two fundamental mistakes over the course of their work that is the reason they were in the bottom. Sonia should have realized the abandoned kimono was the most important, necessary element of her design and never abandoned it. Her dress was beautiful, and I don't think I agree with her going home over it, but she basically sent a standard beautiful gown down the runway, and it didn't really have anything to do with her inspiration or design story. I've seen that dress on red carpets my whole life. Basically, there was nothing creative there, that was all the kimono she didn't finish because she spent all her time perfecting the dress. Bishme should have chosen the other print. He had too many things going on, true, but I really hated that print for the blouse. I hated it when he chose it in Mood. It feels so dated to me. I wish I could have seen if I liked that blouse more in the black stripe fabric, which Cristian clearly preferred. I know the judges were more fixated on the skirt, but tbh I couldn't really tell much about it because I was so hung up on the ugly print. I do love how self-aware he is though. He knew it was a bottom look as he finished it and that he screwed up by throwing in too many elements. So many designers have had no idea they've done anything wrong, but I think this is the second time Bishme has been able to look at his design and known exactly what was wrong with it. Feels refreshing in a way, lol. I think Sebastian should have traded places with Lela in the top. I also think he should have been in the top during the video game challenge (traded places with Hester, as a matter of fact). I don't know why they're deemphasizing how much better he is. His designs aren't getting the attention and commentary they deserve.

Afa's look was bad, but Kovid's was GODAWFUL, it looked like clown clothes, and I'm upset that he was safe instead. I am so over his histrionic schtick and want him gone. And I was lulled into a false sense of doom for him because I totally thought he was getting the loser edit to Rakhan's winner edit when they showed Rakhan following Christian's advice and Kovid explicitly disregarding his advice, so that made it feel worse. I think Renee won because she's literally the only designer who tried to make survival clothes, lol. I guess I'll take Nina's word for it that it was well made, because I couldn't tell on my tv. If the challenge was solely to create fashion with the camping equipment and nature, without the survival element that everyone but Renee ignored, I think Hester no doubt wins again. She and Tessa have grown on me, ngl. I was surprised Hester did so well, tbh, and feel like kind of a jerk for assuming she wouldn't. And though I hated her look, I was super charmed by Tessa making a loom. I felt so bad for Sonia when her model tripped OMG. Like, she had her face in her hands and I did too, I could barely look. And then her dress coming apart during the judging, ugh. She had to be on the bottom just because you can't not be if your dress is coming apart and your model can't walk in it, but I think if it didn't have those issues it would have traded places with one if the safe designers.

I felt for Nadine last week and also felt for her at the start of this week when she was stuck cleaning the kitchen, but I lost all sympathy for her completely over how she treated her model, and the way she couldn't accept criticism at all. She is the type of person who probably treats service personnel dismissively when she's not complaining about something. I bet she's a bad tipper too. I was so pleased when Brandon Maxwell immediately put an end to that bullshit and defended her model. Honestly, I think her attitude is what sent her home this week moreso than the design, but they can't give that as a reason. I think Rakan's was the worst, and his track record is very unimpressive so far. He picked a terrible print, and he didn't listen to any of Christian's advice at all. I'm kind of at a loss as to why Hester deserved to be in the Top 3, let alone be the winner. I didn't like her print at all, and up close the construction didn't look all that great either. whatever. The garter belt was a fun idea, but that's the only element of her look I liked at all. Maybe I just need to look at the safe outfits again, because I know I like a few of them more than Hester's look, but maybe there was something wrong with them. Next week looks so fun! I haven't watched Project Runway in years, and I almost completely forgot about the unconventional materials challenges. So far Sebastian looks on track to win. No one is even coming close to his skill level. It will be interesting to see if/how he'll falter.