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I'm really glad Vivian won. She just seems genuine and talented beyond what the other designers were doing. I'm eager to see what she does next, actually. I think she's got a big future ahead of her.

At least half the problem is that they're trying to make a four foot loong blade with two foot long forges. The show really needs to spring for bigger equipment and put the guys up for a week so that they can do it right. Also - I hated seeing the poor piggie bodies hanging there. Also also - I wish the editors wouldn't interrupt the shots of Doug doing his thing. Don't cut away when he's mid swing! I like seeing a graceful martial artist at work. I can wait three seconds for the stupid reaction shot.

Poor piggies. :( They deserved better than that.

"St. Egregious" - heh.

Kini made sure that Alexander heard him imply that Sam called Daniel and Mitchell "the Leftovers". Sam didn't use that phrase. Kini made it up and publically attributed it to Sam. Then when Alexander called Sam on it, Sam just gave a sly smile. That was some next level shady-voodoo on Kini's part, and I don't blame him a bit. I don't blame Kini for being annoyed with Sam in general. I also don't blame him for not outing Sam to the judges. There's no real upside to that argument and Kini will have lots of opportunity to show Sam up by just being competent in future challenges. As much as I hated Daniel's look and Daniel's attitude ... I probably would have sent Stella home. Her dress in that wretched vinyl with the fuzzy lining - ugh - plus it was just as revealing as Daniel's, but unintentionally, which is way worse. And for all the pearl-clutching, I know Daniel's dress would have been fine for the VMA's. Mitchell's dress was awful but it was at least something you can wear out in public without causing a traffic jam.

I can't forgive Marjorie for ripping the lobsters in half. I know they're just bugs but that makes no difference. They don't deserve such a traumatic death.

I'm still enjoying this! Agreed on episode 2. Somehow making a Warhammer just wasn't as interesting as making a sword. Weird. Maybe because there wasn't as much hammering? I don't know. But episode 2 was cool, and the winner made the best looking kophesh that I've ever seen. Also loved: "I'm going to have three gin & tonics and make the man in the back of my head go away." Doug's happy smile when says, "it will kill".

I know what you mean. OTOH, the original green room furniture is really surprisingly sad. And such depressing colors! I know green rooms are off camera, but still, I thought Ellen's green rooms would be contemporary, at least. Those were just one step up from college drama club. So from that perspective, I guess, Sef's Dentist Office chic is still an improvement. But yeah. Wrong guy went home this week. And last week. ETA: and you know, that bench around the back? The couches are supposed to be up against a wall. Who needs to be fishing behind their couch for the items. Why can't youput things on the coffee table? I think Sef just really doesn't think about the people he's designing for or what they want, even he goes on about it endlessly. He's not interested in his client,s just in what he wants his clients to have.

I forgot to mention Alyssa's little turtleneck/awkward shorts/ stilleto booties outfit. I can only assume that everyone on the show hates her and she has no friends, because oh, honey .....

You know, I was ok with the fish hat until he went and stuck a feather up its ass. I get that he wanted movement. I don't get how he thought an ostrich feather was the solution.

I liked Fade's dress. I usually like Fade's work. I liked the contrast between flowy top and heavy skirt and collar. I thought it was way more interesting than the many flowey ponchos. I also liked Valerie's, which was sort of boring, yes, if you don't have a union guy following you around with a wind machine. But it looked the most like a plausible dress that a real person might wear out in the real world. In other words - they weren't costumes. We didn't get enough of a good look at Daniel's piece but I thought it seemed like stealth fug. Sam is annoying and should own his shit but his fabric choice was smart. "Take the pom-pom off your hat" is a good bit of life-advice, Mitchell. Also, you're too old to care what Sam thinks about you. Stella - I did like that she didn't just make a parachute (Alexander) but I thought the fringe wasn't enough. I liked Aisha's head wrap more than her dress. Quite a lot of designers had no idea and just made a dress and drapped fabric over it. Ken had a weird shoulder situation going on. I couldn't tell if I liked it. Kini's Mai Tai was pretty but it wasn't much of a garment.

Dear Show - it's ok to only do one cycle a year. I'll miss you, but it will be ok! It's good to have some space where we don't feel like we have to always perform. If you can only find enough talented people for one show a year - that's perfectly ok! Have another special with the Judges if you want. Get Lois Burwell back in the mix. She's always a hoot. And then, we you get enough talented cast members line up, we can get back together and do a normal show. It will be great! And I'm sure that time off will just make our one cycle a year seem more special. But, you know, Show, this just grabbing any twelve "artists" and shoving them out there, regardless of their skills or experience? That's not special. It's not great. It's really kind of bumming me out. You've always been Best Show - and you could totally be Best Show, again! - but these bargain-basement twerps are bringing you down. You're better than this, Show. You are. I believe in you. I believe in us. You deserve better, Show. And if it takes more time for you to pull yourself together - I will fully support you in that. You take all the time you need, Show. You get away from these turkeys and you find that spark that made you the Best. I'll be waiting for you and rooting for you. I know you can do it.

No kidding. I've got fifty different drawers in this house. I couldn't just randomly start swapping them around and expect them to fit perfectly. Sef designed his dresser specifically to match the measurements on those drawers. What a cheat. He knew he was going to crib those drawers all along. It's a dumb dresser, anyway. He spent a whole day thinking about dressers and solving all the problems with dressers and then he went and built - a bog standard dresser.

This particular pack of fools are going to be hard to take, for ten more episodes. But complaining about YouTubers not being "Real Stars" is like people in 1950 complaining that the Boob Toob was going to turn Americans into glassy eyed zombies. The internet and indie productions are the future. That's where the younger viewers are. That's where the younger money is. In fifty years, "cable tv" will be as weird to our grandchildren as the idea of life with three broadcast channels is to us. Tyler did seem like one of the better ones, at least.

Hilarious. This Doctor is an Ob/Gyn, sooooo ... let's hope not. I'm pretty sure after listening to all squealing, this episode left me Literally Dead. My favorite team is the Brothers, because they were the quietest.

I don't remember seeing that Bill Chait before, but I liked him. He seemed really on the ball. I thought Marjorie should have won, for getting the FOH ball rolling at dinner. But I have no problem with Isaac winning either. Man Bun ... what can I say. It was a well deserved auf. I would have liked to see someone call him out about talking up his own restaurants. I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that he didn't take his shirt off. I love Restaurant Wars. It's always the highlight of the season, imo, and sets up the final, more serious, challenges.

That was some kind of bullshit, not eliminating anyone, but then bullshit is pretty much all they got any more. I hope Kini wins. I hoped he'd get over his love affair with heavy, matte, fabric, but no. Dimitry is the best thing to happen to this show since Christian. Under the Gunn almost made me stop watching altogether. It might yet happen. Sam is so toxic. I do love Fade. I liked Stella's peplum dress better than Ken's, even though she's walking around with an actual skunk on her shoulder. I'll be sorry if Sam drives Ken off the show. I didn't like Ken, last time, or his collection of appalling hats, but he's trying and I'm rooting for him. I kind of liked Alexander before. It was sort of funny, in the opening, how the designers could all find each other because they had stupid hair colors. Mitchel was tiresome, as per. I don't miss Tim Gunn but I'm sad that I dont' miss Tim Gunn any more. Still don't miss him, though. SWATCH!!! Alyssa should cut whoever is dressing her. What the hell? My mom had those exact cullottes in the 70's. I'm pretty sure they're still in her dresser. I like Dom, over all, but I loathed that cocoon coat. Also loathed: Emily's Malificent hair-do and hideous sweater. Although tonight, when it gets down to 5 degrees, I will be wishing I had that sweater to wear around the house. The winning look was the only actual good one there, but I can't help thinking about Dimitry when I saw it. I really liked the ombre effect on it. It's a little worrying that she - Valerie? - thought that it needed the black jacket. So disappointed in Franco, and disappointed that he wasn't sent home, and disappointed that he deserved to be sent home.

I lost all respect for the guest judge when someone asked him, "how do you know if a design is successful?" and he replied, "If it sells a lot and makes the clients happy". An art piece is successful when the artist says it is - other people's opinions don't matter a bunch and the commercialization of the piece matters even less. (And if designers aren't artist - why do they even exist?) I'll accept that he's a successful salesman, but not an original artist. As for the contestants - They never respected Melissa. They had her pegged as a children's designer, as if that's a lesser thing. But you know what, mister "I have a zillion pieces in production" guest judge - Melissa's "French" vanity would sell a billion. Easy. And the little black dress - Coco Chanel was not a minimalist designer. In Coco's vision, the dress might be simple but it's used as a back drop for eighteen pounds of pearls and bangles and necklaces and hats and gloves and brooches and scarves. French style is busy and a little decorative - from Baroque, to Rocco, to Empire, to Second Empire, to Belle Epoque, to Fin de Siecle, to Art Nouveau, to Chanel, Dior and Hermes. If you ask for French design, you get something like Melissa gave up, with silver studs instead of gold leaf curlicues. I think Vivan's wine table was the least impressive. Yeah, I know industrial is a thing but who really wants to give themselves tetnus from their wine rack? Sef needs to get a short person to sit on his furniture early in the design process. Otherwise, I liked his throne. Miles' cabinet was clever, but that acrylic is going to faded and cloudy next year. I like the turquoise in the Morrocan table. If he'd used cobalt, they'd have sniffed that it was just a replica. I liked the punched out bronze legs, a lot, not so much on all the other bronze, though.

I got to say - my opinion of the Tom Savini school is rapidly plummeting. Someone needs to sit those kids down on day 1 and explain that non-monster movies outnumber monsters by about a million to 1 and if they want to be professional makeup artists, they need to know how to make their humans look, you know, human. If I'd seen that Cowboy out in public, I'd have called police. The only good bit of technique I saw going on was Robert's hair laying skills. I would have sent all three of the bottom looks home and I would not have been kind about it, either.

Neil Fraser is the guy who puts on the event. He's got a restaurant in LA which supports it. (I don't think they were at his place, though, but I've never been so I don't know.) I liked Neil when he was on the show, but I agree that this event, as a fundraiser, is gross and thoughtless (and it has nothing to do with the lack of utensils). It's an event about rich people throwing table scraps to hungry people. That said, I was sort of surprised that Isaac didn't do crawfish boil.

I don't mind the shortness of Mackenzie's dresses. Or the tightness. But I missed the sense of badass menace that her dresses usually have.

Fascinating challenge but I wasn't terribly impressed by anyone's results. I did like the guy with the hat, I guess. Or I guess I should say - Diamond-Hat Man. I can't help liking Robert. I do hope we're past the team challenges portion of this event. Mackenzie's dress game was weak, too, this time.

I am a Tim fan - and I'm pretending right along with you. Probably just as well. Boy, we must have hit some bad shrooms or something, lol. I watched because my Mom wanted to, and I was pleasantly surprised. The cast seems genuinely talented. I liked the one who hammered aluminum, although I worry about her time management. I thought the rocking boat chair was legit brilliant. I'm intrigued now.

The tension on this show is just ridiculous. The Bakers sit down and stare as their food browns. There's nothing on American television to prepare us for this. It's unreal. I didn't know the earlier season were on Amazon. I'm definitely going to hit them up. There was a 4-episode holiday themed version this year, with Mary Berry, Johnny Iuzzinni and an odd assortment of American bakers. It wasn't bad but Original Recipe is the way to go, here. I hope they try again next year with a better cast.

Rob & Walter are the same guy, right? Just one of them stippled on some spray-on hair for a beard? Mackenzie got a chair! You're movin' on up, girl! I wonder if she's preggers? Or maybe her feet just hurt. The right person went home. Sorry Greg, but you took two days to sculpt a stupid news. That's not a seed-eater beak, it's a parrot beak, and it's functionally a can opener. Parrots will rip the trim off of cars just for giggles with that beak. Agreed that it should have been worked int the design a little better, though. I did like the Horned Toad. He had personality. Nothing else really stood out for me. Well, the feathers, maybe. I thought Dreadlocks Man was overpraised.