Immunity face!Robert's gonna smack you one.

[apocalypsos]

Dear Bravo,

Hi, there. Can we talk?

Okay, so I pretty much get addicted to every creative reality show you throw at my head. Project Runway, Top Chef, Shear Genius ... hell, I even sat through the mind-numbing debacle that was Top Design. Funny, how a show in which paint drying was an active plot concern at times made it feel as if it were so boring it were focusing exclusively on that aspect. In other words, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Anyway, I write this note to you regarding your commercials for the next season of Top Chef, in which one of the contestants says, "Somebody's got to be a bad guy."

You know what? I've had it up to HERE with fucking "bad guys."

I'm not watching these shows for the villain. In fact, it's inevitably the sections in which the villain(s) takes center stage that I turn off your damn shows. And I know I'm not the only one. If I want a villain, I'll watch Survivor or Big Brother, both of which bore the pants off me. These are TALENT competitions. I don't want to see people sniping at one another on your creative reality shows, I want to see the creative process at work. I want to see people coming up with pretty dresses or neat tricks I can use in the kitchen or cool ways to cheaply decorate my house.

You'd think you would have learned your goddamn lesson about villains during the last season of Top Chef, where you had a smug little punk half of the audience couldn't stand and a pack of snotty immature bullies the other half of the audience practically wanted arrested. And now most of the fans are going to avoid this season because of it. Hell, you think you would have learned something from Shear Genius, where you only had one truly gimmicky challenge (and even that was pretty awesome), all of your contestants had something to love about them, and your so-called villain ended up winning the Fan Favorite prize. Everybody loved it, so why are we falling back on this dramatic bullshit?

Give us Shear Genius-level brilliance again, for crying out loud. Appealing talented contestants, smart and useful challenges, decent judging that makes sense, and NO FUCKING VILLAINS. Sheesh.

Sincerely,

Me

Comments

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

So say we all. :: dopesmacks them ::

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

According to the TWoP forums, Project Runway had a bitch of a time getting contestants this season because nobody's looking forward to going onto the runway and being embarrassed on national TV. I can't really blame them.

[miggy.livejournal.com]

Word.

I think PR would have had a lot better time with this round of auditions if Uli had won instead of Jeffrey. (And I think she deserved to; she never turned in a real clunker like he did and her final collection displayed the versatility they'd been wondering about.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Amen, although I did like Jeffrey's collection, too, sad as it is to admit.

Personally I'd really like it if my favorite designers going into the last round didn't show up for Fashion Week with a collection full of awful clothes like they did the last two seasons. (Seriously, Daniel V. and Michael ... the hell?!)

[miggy.livejournal.com]

At least with Daniel V there were pieces here and there that I liked... that white coat with the overlapping collar was gorrrrrgeous and would work on a wide variety of body types.

Michael... he just... why did he... oh god my eyes.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Danny had a few nice things, but Michael just ... *sigh* I can't remember who said it, but I agreed with the theory that being around the rest of them in New York and hanging out with Laura brought out the more refined, body-conscious designs that helped him win challenges (and for good reason) and then he went back to ATL and his friends and his hip-hop lifestyle and it just all fell apart.

[miggy.livejournal.com]

I think he also did better under the constraints of the earlier challenges. The first time he was set pretty much loose, he dressed Clarissa in hooker wear. We should have taken that as a warning.

I think he needs to work for someone for a while, within the boundaries of their business, and develop a more solid design identity of his own. And then it will all be okay!

Look at me and my optimism. (You HAVE to be optimistic in the face of that collection.)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I just remember that the dress in my icon is pretty much my favorite dress ever from that show and my hope survives. :) (I have no place to wear it, but ... but ... WAAAAAAANT.)

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

WORD.

[monique-chan.livejournal.com]

I can't agree with you more. Although those shows are way too adictive. I told myself "Self, you will not watch Top Design. Why would you even want to anyway?" I ended up watching it, then I was all "there is no way, I'm ever going to watch Shear Genius. Really, I have no interest in watching people cut hair."

Can I say that nothing else was on? I still don't wuite know how I ended up becoming addicted to thier shows.

But back to bad guys... yeah I'm tired of them. No they don't do anything on these type of shows other than make me want to scream and find something else to watch.