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Post by Kao on May 18, 2022 18:52:37 GMT
Hello! I've been rewatching some of the older seasons and thought this would be a fun topic to pass the time between seasons. Have you rewatched any season of PR recently, and if so has your impression of people changed with a rewatch? Any new favs? Standout designs? Random thoughts? Post it here!
I'm rewatching Season 7 and here are my thoughts:
- Seth Aaron deserved to win. That didn't change.
- I adore my little Ping and wish she had went further, but I think her aesthetic and methods would be better suited to "Next in Fashion" or Heidi and Tim's new show. These were the Lifetime years and they cut everyone with an alternative viewpoint in fashion early.
- Emilio wasn't so awful after all. While before I found him arrogant, I see him today as being someone with a well-developed design sense who really believed in himself and his work. Stubborn, yes, but not a bad guy. Also, his design for the "Circus" episode was a thing of beauty and rightfully earned his place in the final.
- Anthony is a sweet cinnamon roll of a man. You can tell how much he lightened the mood in the workroom by how sad everyone was when he left, and how happy they were when he came back. Some people literally feel like sunlight in the sense that they are really pleasant to be around and their energy draws people to them and he is one of them.
- While I was initially "Ugh, quitter" at Maya for quitting I respect her so much more now. Seth Aaron hit it on the money when he said "We work 18 hours a day seven days a week. Anyone thinking it's easy should try it." The good sis reached her limits and knew that was as far as she wanted to go and that's fine.
- Mila is...a nasty piece of work? I don't know how I skipped over that in my initial watch but damn. The constant [censored] talking of her fellow designers, the nasty looks she gave them (especially Jay and Anthony) in the workroom, she's just nasty. She obviously made that apparent to the rest of the designers because they (understandable, in my opinion) didn't want anything to do with her; I'm recalling the challenge where they had to work in pairs and everyone made a point to NOT pick her and the designer who got the booby prize (Jay) was understandably angry about it but tried to make the best of the situation.
Overall, this was one of the better seasons of the Lifetime era.
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Post by Kao on Jun 1, 2022 16:41:16 GMT
Season 8:
I didn't watch this season when it initially aired but caught details here and there (especially the Gretchen/Mondo controversy) and decided to watch it. I think this was the beginning of Lifetime's airing pile ons for the sake of drama seasons, and when it's completely focused on one person in particular it becomes very painful to watch. Yes, Michael Costello has turned out to not be a great guy but he did not deserve any of the horrible treatment he received on the show. It was obvious that some of those designers had issues with him because he was self-taught and didn't have a design school pedigree but kept winning challenges anyway and they didn't like it. The "He said, She said" nonsense where Valerie told Ivy (a hating a** person on multiple levels) that Michael was telling people not to vote for her because she was mean (and Ivy using that as an excuse to be cruel to this man) was terrible. The group challenge where basically everyone on Michael's team used it as an opportunity to crap all over him was hard to watch, with Ivy and Gretchen being the main instigators. My main takeaway from this season is that Ivy and others are just terrible people, and to make it worse the show brought her and others back after they were eliminated to "help" and she accused him of cheating. I'm glad Tim finally snapped at this nonsense by telling everyone "Well, the producers didn't see this, and the multitudes of cameras we have watching you guys didn't catch it, it's a non-issue!" which was basically Tim-speak for "You lying cow!" Apparently she hasn't matured at all since because it's a whole twelve years later and that sad sack of human detritus is STILL crap talking Michael on social media. I am so glad that she has a non-visible career now.
- I loved Cassanova just for the comic relief he provided because he was so unintentionally funny. I loved it when he was lying on the couch crying and saying "The judges say I design for sluts, drag queens, and old women!"
- I liked that both Mondo, Ari South (formerly known as Andy) and Christopher left the Michael Costello Hate Club after getting teamed with him during challenges and finding out he wasn't such a bad guy after all.
- I loved that April stayed out of the nonsense for the most part and just focused on designing clothes.
- I liked that Valerie apologized to Michael C. for her crappy behavior before she left.
The Final Runway was awesome and I think that Ari, Gretchen, and Mondo all did an excellent job. I liked a lot of Gretchen's clothes but was very much turned off by her personality, and Mondo's collection was so light and colorful and joyful I can see why the judges had a hard time making a decision. While I don't think Gretchen deserved a lot of the fallback she received for winning, her complete lack of self awareness and not wanting to take responsibility for her actions on the show was extremely off-putting. When her fellow contestants confronted her at the reunion about the horrible things she said in confessionals only for her to say "I kept my criticism to the work" (as if that made everything better) and then later blaming her bad behavior on "editing?" No. They can't "edit in" things you didn't do, and when the Confessional Room becomes like a second home for you to talk **** about your fellow designers you need to own up to that because she spent more time in there than literally any other designer. It's pretty telling that NONE of the designers wanted anything to do with her after the show. It's also telling that in true Gretchen fashion she is claiming she had PTSD from the show and had to go to therapy. I hope the therapist schooled her on her lack of self-awareness because if anyone would be suffering from PTSD as a result of being on the show it's Michael C but sure, you "suffered" good sis!
I am very glad that Mondo, April, and Ari are still doing well and used the show to do bigger and better things.
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