I know other people have to be watching Tyrannical be handed a TV show with a good timeslot to torture young American beauties from across the country! Come out Secret ANTM fans!
Well, Episode 2 was on tonight and it’s the first real episode of the competition since last week was all about the casting.
And they kicked the hottest girl off and kept the fugliest girl in attitude and looks.
Your thoughts?
By their standards, they kicked off the short, fat, old girl who took a bad photo. This show is a study in cognitive dissonce for me, because only in the world of modeling could that spectacularly gorgeous, 5’9", blond, sophisticated, classy Brita be considered a worse bet that that snaggle-toofed trashy belligerent piece of nastay known as Brandy.
I felt like hugging that chick and saying “you have, hands down the most beautiful body of everyone there. Don’t listen to Tyrannical!”
Ah well, she was too old and too Maximish to become a C-list celebrity winner on this show anyway.
I have high hopes for next week. Do you think Michelle’s secret is that she used to be a man?
I looove this show, although I haven’t caught the episode in question yet (only the first one). Seasons one and two were great.
I can’t believe Brandy got through to begin with, let alone surviving this episode as well. And Brita’s gone? Damn! I thought she was amazing.
I have to say that Kahlen and Christina look exactly like Vogue models. I was somewhat surprised by Nigel’s commentary that Christina has no sex appeal b/c very few of the high fashion models look anything close to “pretty” to me. This is what amuses me about the show-they contradict themselves from girl-to-girl.
Word on the Brita v Brandy thing. As they were standing in front of Tyrant being the last two, I said to the Superhero, “Well, the one can lose 10 lbs (not that she has to! She’s gorgeous!) but the other can’t lose the attitude” and they decided to go with Gap-Toothed Sniveler.
Ugh.
I mean, it’s not that Brita would have won anyway, because she is “short” “fat” and “old” (in the modeling world), but hell, the winners of the last two “cycles” have been either short or old.
I actually like the looks (so far) of way more of the girls in this go-round than I did in the last one. Except I’m kind of creeped out by the is-she-a-man wrestler, and the girl with the big alien eyes (Lluvy?).
At least they didn’t refer to Brita as a “plus-size” model. I find it both hilarious and scary that, in the world of modeling, anyone who is larger than about a size 6 is considered “plus-size.”
Tyra herself is rather ample. I’d think she would have a bit more sensitivity to weight-related issues.
My theory on the retention of Brandy is that Tyra did not want the first girl dismissed to be an African-American. Tyra has, in fact, done young women of color a great service with this show, and I think she may be bending over backwards trying to be generous to her sistahs. Brandy isn’t likely to last long, but for her to be the first to go might have seemed harsh to Tyra.
Anyway, that’s my .00 cents’ worth.
Yeah, that and Brandy screams “ratings!” Part of the reason they got rid of Nicole last season (I refuse to call it a cycle, like every season is a period) despite consistently good photos is that she was “forgettable” i.e. she didn’t bring the drama like Ann (with her in-the-closet love for Norelle and Eva and histrionics), Eva (Diva), YaYa (Bitchiness), Amanda (blindness). And they got rid of poor Nor right after Nicole despite, again, better pictures than Ann.
I actually think Tyra’s more beautiful now with the added weight than she was at her height but I thought that she restricted herself to VS modelling now and didn’t do as much high fashion. But back in the day she was as tiny as the rest of them-I remember seeing pictures of her in her “prime” for one of my classes in college.
My wife got me hooked on this show in the first season. This is the only reality show we watch. I was also disappointed in losing Brita, and I figured they didn’t want to boot Brandy right after chopping off her hair, but she’ll go within the next two weeks. Too early for me to make a pick. I picked Eva last time by midseason, and Yoanna early on, too, but I was an Elyse fan in season 1. Lluvy kinda reminds me of Ileana Douglas. I cannot stand Janice Dickenson.
Exactly! That’s who I was trying to think of. At first, I thought Liza Minnelli or Shelley Duvall, but Ileana Douglas is a much better match.
She grosses me out the way she refuses to wear anything that doesn’t show off her cleavage. Which I don’t really need to be seeing.