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Sergio's actual tie dyeing looks better in this photo than on the runway. I can see the yellow color in more areas than just along the bottom edge. It's a lovely dress. Geoffrey still deserved the win, though.

It's a lovely dress, but they're selling it for $840.

Ok, the safe looks first. Marquise's outfit looked like something an aspiring figure skater's grandmother would whip up for her for a competition. That was bad. Brittany, yes, once again did pretty much the same dress. She really needs to be called on this. Best looks. I actually liked all three of these. Geoffrey's fabric was fantastic, particularly under the runway lights. It glowed like it had a golden sheen. The design was fine, well made and flattering, but it was the fabric that carried him to a win. Despite his whining and complaining. Dude, get a damn grip. I'm happy with this as the winner. Sergio was kind of the opposite. His design was fantastic. Yes, it looked like a basic garden party dress but the way he structured the skirt made it move in amazing ways. You could barely see the dyed color on the runway at all. I think he just squeaked in under the definition of "tie dye" and was carried by his ability to sew. Nancy's fabric was fantastic. You could tell she'd dyed fabric before. It was a sophisticated pattern, not just the usual sunburst that we all learned to do in Girl Scouts. The pants were awesome, as well. Next week, she need to do something more tailored on the bottom (although Anya rode that one jumpsuit to victory a few years ago). I think she might have won if she'd had more time to...you know...actually sew a top rather than wrapping fabric around her model's chest. The bottom Victoria is out of ideas. The well is dry. All she can really do well is a series of minor variations on that one outfit with cut outs. This tie dye outfit was horrendous, I almost couldn't look away because I kept finding bad things to point out. Delvin can tailor a jacket and pants. He's very good at that. He has no range what so ever, though. His outfit wasn't as hideous as Victoria's, but it was boring, dated, and fairly sad. He was eliminated because he bored the judges and has done so repeatedly.

Akirra, you can do SO much better. William is an idiot and he lied to you.

My SO and I talked last night about the minions and whether there was one when the Terry doppelganger was forming. It doesn't have to be a 1 to 1 thing. There were two minions in Ohio. They were still active while the demon was heading to Georgia and starting to form into Terry. The demon might not have needed one in Georgia yet. That's going to be curious. We haven't seen any neck blisters on Claude yet. I'm still betting he's the model for the next doppelganger.

I also liked that he was willing to step in when the happy couple was fighting. It was a good idea to station someone outside the door in case one of them hit the other.

That's an excellent question. I don't know. When the model for the doppelganger changes location (NY to Ohio, Ohio to Georgia), the demon obviously follows. He must make a minion after he arrives.

I was kind of hoping that she finally realized after his texts that she's been snogging a moron all season and was closing that door.

I clapped with joy when the team dinner ended at a reasonable hour, with a reasonable amount of alcohol consumed, then clapped again when they were told to get out of the hot tub and most everyone headed to bed. This is their job and I'm happy to see it treated as such, for the most part. Yeah, that's a low bar to clear but we just finished watching the mess in Thailand. As for the happy couple, they are both stone cold idiots and a case could be made for them each to be appointed a legal guardian. Neither are capable of making a reasonable decision for themselves.

I think we're supposed to see that he's acting out of character. Previously he seemed like an in control manager of a strip club. I don't think the issue was necessarily was him breaking up the fight, although that's the bouncer's job surely, but that he was getting into it a bit too vigorously rather that defusing the situation.

And Glory was forced to face a consequence of her outburst when she saw her daughter picking up Terry's things that Glory had torn out of the drawers and closet and chucked into the hallway. That was powerful.

So, we were right about the demon having two types of victims. - The ones who are scratched (DNA collected) and then become the model for the demon's next incarnation. - The minions who are physically and psychologically abused, have the neck blisters, and who do things for the demon while he's (we have no proof of gender, I'm just going with male as a default) changing form. I like that Holly and Jeannie have found each other and are working off one another. Ralph is on the periphery as the voice of reason, listening to them and (we hope) changing his mind as more starts to emerge. Yunis, the Hispanic detective, is kind of curious. It sounds like his grandparents or other family members laid the ground work for him to potentially believe in the supernatural or unexplainable, which led him to work with Holly and to potentially believe in the demon fairly early on. I hope they have him struggle a bit more with the concepts, though.

The best thing for me about the fight scene was that Picard didn't fight like a ninja. He's an older man. They showed him as such. Well done.

Those weren't hairy legs. They were deep cleavage.

Edit: Wait, Brittany got the save? I turned it off when everyone was hugging. Why would Christian save HER? The winner and the auf'ed where absolutely correct. Marquise's outfit was fabulous. It was well made, stretched the concept of a tuxedo yet was still identifiable as such, and it looked GREAT on his model. Well deserved win. Brittany was well, well past her sell by date. How may weeks has she complained about having to work "outside of her lane". What she really means is that her talent and skills are narrow and she's not able to appropriately respond to the challenges. I'm also tired of her complaining and bitchiness. Buh bye. Others: Victoria. I don't get the praise for this outfit. It's still the same kind of thing that she always does, just with a skirt rather than pants. It also looked cheap and fairly sleazy, like a something that might catch the eye of a bargain basement dominatrix. Sergio. How did he not know about Celine Dion's outfit. Even my boyfriend, who pays zero attention to anything fashion related, immediately said it was copied from Celine. The man can sew, though. I liked how he tailored the back so that it nipped in right there at the top of the hips. He has great skills, but is short on ideas and knowledge of his chosen field. Geoffrey: I thought this was a bit over praised. The proportions were off. Dropped waist with cropped legs made the model look like he was all torso. It wasn't flattering. Delvin: That look was straight out of the 80's, something Crystal Carrington would have worn on Dynasty. It's starting to seem like the Dynasty ladies are his target audience. Nancy: Yes, the pants were repeated, but Nancy should have told them that she wanted a chance to show them how those pants were meant to be worn, rather than under the humongous coat she'd previously paired them with. I don't understand why she was reamed for a repeat when Victoria trots out variations on a single design every week.

I was referring to when he was in her house, particularly at the table. The hoodie guy in the office was just some dude sleeping. Yes, that was real. I heard the scary stories from other kids, rather than from my parents. There were some hints of old world stuff from my elderly relatives, but not from my parents.

I got the feeling that everyone pretty much believed she was lying about everything. She needs some therapy and career counseling.

Oh, there were some red flags in her life story, too. Homeschooled by parents who decided on a whim that the whole family should move on to a sailboat despite having no real experience sailing. She falls for the guy her parents hire to help with the boat. Literally the first guy who came along.

It did save the patrons at the various bars in town from having to deal with the brus.

Stephen King has a long history of taking something familiar or well trodden and making it scary as heck. I have hope that he torqued the boogeyman legends enough for an interesting payoff.

In this case, the strip club is clearly someplace a family man like Terry wouldn't be, which shows the doppelganger's behavior was out of the ordinary for Terry. He might have a beer occasionally at the local dive bar.

I agree that the demon showing up to Jeannie and the girl aren't dreams. I haven't worked out the dead people showing up, though. It could be figments of their imagination, as you suggest, or maybe something the demon can do to ramp up grief among survivors.

The scene with Jeannie and the hoodie demon was really creepy, I think in large part to Mare Winningham's acting. I thought at first that the demon's face was sort of melted looking when he was between doppelganger forms, but the description Terry's daughter gave and Jeannie's description were pretty close to one another. Maybe he stays melted until his oven timer goes off. 😉

My BF and I are working on a theory that the demon thing affects people in a couple of ways. The ones with the blistered necks become his minions, feeding him deer and helping him with his lighting and home decor needs out in the woods (a joke about the lamps). The people who get scratched are the ones that have doppelgangers created. I think that it must be the demon using his time in hiding to transmogrify or whatever into the doppelganger form. He must need time to use the person's DNA to make the duplicate image. The grieving relatives aren't physically touched by the demon, he pushes them into intense grief so he can feed. According to the show, people who choose sites for cemeteries in Ohio and elsewhere have a tendency to put them next door to derelict factories. 😉 Down further south, it's just near a farm.

This episode should be titled Jesus and the Sociopath. That woman had no empathy nor any regrets. I was really glad that Jesus wanted to cut it off with her once he found out and thank goodness he didn't give her any money. He's had a hard life, but from the Two Months Later report at the end, he appears to be doing well. I would bet hard money that she deleted those catfish accounts only because they were "blown" by the show and she now has a whole new set, maybe others that are long term but not mentioned on the show.