Project Runway - Eye Candy

Let me tell you a secret. Don't tell anyone. I'm "coming out of the closet" with this one...

I watch Project Runway. And I love it.

Sure I may have to sit through the criticisms of friends and family every week, but this show is damn entertaining.

The show returned with a new episode this week after a short hiatus, and it felt like with this episode the season finally got started. The first couple episodes were good and solid as usual, but they haven't been great (or should I say, fabulous.) The challenges have been downright boring and unimaginative and the designers had little personality. This week had a creative challenge and we finally really got to see just how talented or untalented the designers really were.

This week had in-your-face product placement like woah. (I can't stand product placement, but as long as it keeps my TiVo service legal i'm ok with it. Gotta fight the commercial skippers. I'm reminded of when, on 30 Rock, Tina Fey just turned to the camera with like a mountain dew in her hand or something and asked if they could have their money now.) The contestants were taken into Hershey's Times Square ("The Sweetest place in New York!") and told they had to make their dress out of stuff in the store. As the contestants' faces screamed "Oh Shit" I said "oh yes" because I was thinking how the hell can they make a dress out of candy.


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They proved me wrong however (well, some of them. Others kept the "oh shit" look on their face the whole show) and wound up making some pretty awesome looking dresses. Christian immediately knew what he was making and pretty much had his dress made right there in the store and was done in like 10 minutes once back at the workroom and moved on to telling everyone else how shitty their dress looked in that way that gay men can apparently say anything they want and yet it still comes off as sweet and endearing to women. (He glued a bunch of those ubiquitous brown Reses' wrappers to a dress and it actually looked cool. I'll never look at a Reses' peanut butter cup the same way again.) Jillian was the only one to use actual food products as she whipped up a sexy Twizzler's-red corset and miniskirt things that the judges loved. Rami came out on top for the second time this season with this intricately made futuristic colorful vinyl/plastic/foil thing that was well made and creative. (See pic)

As for the losers, man. Give me Simon Cowell any day over these judges. They were sort of just total bitches tonight. "She could work at Dairy Queeeeeen!" I love when they make fun of the designers' clothes right in front of them. They called out Sweet-P's total lack of creativity and Elise's total lack of sanity. Elise was auf'd on the show for somehow managing to turn colorful candy wrappers into something that looked like a turd with bits of candy wrappers stuck in it. (Yet somehow she always seems happy with her hideous designs). PS: Heidi looked the hottest she has all season.